Graffiti

What Is Graffiti?

Graffiti refers to the drawings, patterns, scribbles, messages and tags that are painted, written or carved on public walls, spaces or other surface such as pavements, walk ways or fences . It is most commonly seen as tags or signitures. The content may be offensive or have a detrimental visual impact to the surrounding environment. Graffiti is regarded as criminal damage and as such a prosecution may be brought under Section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971. Both fly-posting and graffiti are prosecutable under law with the maxium penalty being unlimited and being decided by the courts.

What We Do?

We aim to remove offensive graffiti from NWLDC maintained public buildings within 24hrs of it being reported. Our operatives are trained to use a chemical graffiti removal system to clean any surface from sensitive perspex to masonry.

In general this is not a service we ar able to offer the public or private sector as we have limited resources and equipment available.

However, in some circumstances we have assisted with removal of graffiti from Leics. County Council and some Parish council buldings. The chemicals we use are very costly, so it is necessary to recharge these organisations.