Grimbsy Street, off Brick Lane, is closed for car parking in preparation for Tower Hamlet Council's clean up operations of the graffiti on that street (1-3 February). So here are a few snaps to remind you what the place looked like. Click the pics to enlarge. There's a lovely piece of work by Stik on a building. Presumably that will survive given that it is on private property. You can see it in an
earlier post here.
Here is a part of the
council's statement on Graffiti - a touch authoritarian and uninformed even.
Graffiti is vandalism – pure and simple and its real impacts on a community are considerable. Graffiti across London cost £100 million to remove in 2002. The current cost of removal to Tower Hamlets is upwards of £400,000 per year. Graffiti can reduce property values and depress economic development. It may even be used to disguise directions to the locations of drug sellers. Graffiti is a blight on our community and can lead to the “run down” feel to an area and to an increased fear of crime. Graffiti vandals commit criminal damage on all sorts of surfaces and at many locations. Graffiti vandalism is done by marker pen, aerosol paint, mechanical or acid etching. Sales of aerosol paints to under 16s are illegal. Graffiti vandals can be and will be prosecuted wherever possible.
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