[Brighton] Brighton drowning under grafitti and tagging - is there anything we can do?

[oneillco]

I was in Norwich yesterday and in the last few weeks I've been to Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Birmingham and several London boroughs. Those city centres don't have anything like the deluge of tags sprayed and scribbled over everything. It's got stupid in Brighton recently; for e.g. the top end of Trafalgar Street around the Prince Albert is a right mess (I'm not talking about big pieces done with the owners permission).

CityClean will only clean it off public buildings and so tags stay up on walls for ages attracting other taggers to make it even worse. I try and clean off or paint over what I can in the streets around me; does anyone else do that? Is there anything else we can do to stop these selfish ignorant tagging tw@ts defacing everything?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I see it as part of city centres these days; I struggle to get worked up about it.

 

[goldstone]

It's vandalism, pure and simple. Those found doing it should be forced to clean it off and do community service to clean off other graffiti. And more people need to report it ... and the police need to respond to such reports quickly so that they catch the idiots. And property owners should not encourage other idiots by permitting graffiti on their buildings. And well done oneillco for cleaning off or paining over what you see. If it disappears quickly then the idiots might just lose interest.

 

[Munkfish]

I quite like it.

 

[stewart_weir]

We need more not less

 

[BBassic]

Some of it is shit but some of it is art. I'm happy ignoring the shit if it means we can keep the art.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I was in Norwich yesterday and in the last few weeks I've been to Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Birmingham and several London boroughs. Those city centres don't have anything like the deluge of tags sprayed and scribbled over everything. It's got stupid in Brighton recently; for e.g. the top end of Trafalgar Street around the Prince Albert is a right mess (I'm not talking about big pieces done with the owners permission).

CityClean will only clean it off public buildings and so tags stay up on walls for ages attracting other taggers to make it even worse. I try and clean off or paint over what I can in the streets around me; does anyone else do that? Is there anything else we can do to stop these selfish ignorant tagging tw@ts defacing everything?

Probably need to call the spellcheck police

 

[bhadebenhams]

Bring back the BIRCH

 

[Your Mum]

these days I struggle to get worked up about

...your Mum

 

[Wellesley]

Kill them. Filthy vandalising c****.

 

[Lush]

I think we should be allowed to make a pile of the taggers' nice things - jacket, jeans, mobile phone, laptop etc - and spray them with our initials.

Let's see if they think that is art or vandalism

 

[The Oldman]

Let’s face it as much as I love Brighton it’s always been a bit down at the heel and grubby. I do not like it but that’s the way it is.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

They should just spray their own slums

 

[vegster]

I quite like it.

Except when you Sandtex your garden wall and some moron writes ZIT or some other crap on it ?

 

[looney]

Tolerance and apathy, the last virtues of a crumbling civilisation.

 

[portlock seagull]

Except when you Sandtex your garden wall and some moron writes ZIT or some other crap on it ?

Except no brighton fan should be buying Sandtex...!

 

[portlock seagull]

I was in Norwich yesterday and in the last few weeks I've been to Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Birmingham and several London boroughs. Those city centres don't have anything like the deluge of tags sprayed and scribbled over everything. It's got stupid in Brighton recently; for e.g. the top end of Trafalgar Street around the Prince Albert is a right mess (I'm not talking about big pieces done with the owners permission).

CityClean will only clean it off public buildings and so tags stay up on walls for ages attracting other taggers to make it even worse. I try and clean off or paint over what I can in the streets around me; does anyone else do that? Is there anything else we can do to stop these selfish ignorant tagging tw@ts defacing everything?

In fairness, when you’ve seen an Italian city I don’t think we’ve got a graffiti problem. Over there it’s on a different scale!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

In fairness, when you’ve seen an Italian city I don’t think we’ve got a graffiti problem. Over there it’s on a different scale!

Athens too.

 

[PaoloAlbioni]

I was just thinking the same about Berlin. They even have organised street art tours there, with tourists paying for a guide to show them round and explain who the artist was and when it was painted. The main difference, though, is that some of it is actually really good...

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

where's Caroline Lucas when you need here ................. tucked away in her wigwam
regards
DR