An end-of-terrace house in the Coombe Road area of Brighton has been given a fresh lick of paint after being repeatedly blighted by graffiti tagging.
The Happy Mountain community group and Labour councillors Jacob Taylor and Amanda Evans joined forces for the job.
They spent a morning tackling a number of graffiti hotspots in the Moulsecoomb and Bevendean area.
The owners of the property have repainted it a number of times and were grateful that the community group offered to help.
Councillor Taylor said: “It’s not fair on residents to have repeated tagging. Most of this is mindless, and nothing to do with street art.
“It’s a small thing – but it really makes a difference to the area to give this prominent wall a fresh lick of paint.”
Great community work!
It is a shame some sad little moron will just see it as a new blank canvas for their pathetic scribbling. We should bring back the community stocks! Harmless but embarrassing punishment!
I used to live in this area (just up the road), many many years ago. That bit always had tagging going on. I’m not saying it’s right, it’s not. But before the “things were better in my day crowd” start. It wasn’t.
Back then I can’t remember the community coming together to try and do anything about it either.
Yeah- some child will probably tag it again, but that’s not the point, people helping eachother is.
Yep, great community work. If only they caught more taggers etc. They could do community payback by clearing the graffiti. Not sure what’s happening in the world, no respect.
>Yeah- some child will probably tag it again
Some little git has already tagged it. I caught him at it and gave him a right old lecture \ shouting at. Stupid kids like this claim “I thought it is a graffiti wall” and forget it is someone’s house. I don’t care if you hit a business \ council property. But someone’s house? What world do these idiots live in. Can I come tag your gran’s house?
But what can you do even when you catch someone at it. I wanted to punch him but then I’d be in the wrong.
The sad world some people live in. Maybe the kid will think twice next time, but I doubt it. A disabled pensioner lives here and it is hard for him to keep paying to repaint this. Great that the local councillors stepped in here. It really made his day that they came and fixed this for him.
Aye, punching a child is generally frowned upon. Sometimes the solution comes from avoiding just a white wall, but rather putting something there, in this case, perhaps that’s a piece of artwork?