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News/press releasesMerry Christmas and money down the drain!
||This was the headline for our press notice to local media highlighting how taxpayers money is wasted through the actions of paint spraying vandals in our town centres.
Please read on:
We know it’s a bit late - Christmas is done and dusted - but if you are a council tax payer in the Ashfield District Council area you need to know your local vandals were serving up graffiti while we all enjoyed some festive cheer.
Your Christmas present was…graffiti…lots of it!
In a ten week period over the festive season Ashfield District Council had to fork out more than £1300 cleaning up the mess in Kirkby town centre left by so-called graffiti artists – and we are all paying for it!
This figure is the cost of cleaning up only four instances of graffiti tagging.
Ashfield District Council is working hard to remove graffiti throughout the district, but we need the public's help to identify the culprits. We need to know who is responsible for taking the cash out of your pocket!
We already work with Crimestoppers, work in schools and work with Virgin Media to remove any graffiti on street furniture – but we need to do more! Town centres are the 'crown jewels' in our local communities and we cannot stand by and allow them to be abused in this way.
We need your help.
If you see some misguided delinquent at work with a spray can just remember that the few minutes of spraying equates to three
hours of hard work by a crew from the Council’s environmental services squad and a cost in wages, materials, time and effort
of several hundred pounds.
It needs to stop. It is money that can be saved and pared from all our council tax bills, so please help.
If you can help in any way, please contact;
Ashfield District Council on 0800 183 8484
or
Nottinghamshire Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Photo: Taking direct action to stamp out graffiti, Cllr Jason Zadrozny, Leader of Ashfield District Council, works
with Trevor Middleton (LEFT), of the Council's Neighbourhood Response team in a graffiti hit area.
“Cleaning up such vandalism is expensive and the culprits need to be brought to book. Just think of our taxpayers money being
washed down the drain by high pressure equipment, cleaning agents, plus the time and effort devoted to putting things right
again" said Cllr Zadrozny.
Photo: Trevor Middleton blasts away graffiti from a wall – a graphic illustration of money going down the drain.
Photo: Apart from the time and effort of Ashfield District Council staff, cleaning up the mess left by vandals involves heavy and expensive machinery such as this Scarab unit equipped with specialist high-pressure cleaning tools and driven by John Heathcote.
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