Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Customer & Regulatory Services

RESOLVED THAT:

1.    consultation feedback be noted;  

2.    the proposed graffiti policy, ‘Statement of Policy regarding Unauthorised or Unwelcome Graffiti’, as at Appendix 3 of the report, be adopted, with immediate effect.

The Cabinet Member for Customer and Regulatory Services introduced his report, saying that a robust approach was needed to strike a balance between unwelcome graffiti and street art, particularly that resulting from the Cheltenham Paint Festival which is shown to lift an area and contribute to well-being. Helpful feedback to the consultation had been provided by the police, Civic Society, and Paint Festival organisers, including Andy Davies, who suggested the overall change in the title to include ‘unauthorised or unwelcome’, and that this should not apply to graffiti which caused political offence, which was not an unreasonable subject.  He recommended the policy to Cabinet, with immediate effect.

The Cabinet Member for Housing also thought the inclusion of ‘unauthorised and unwelcome’ in the title of the policy was appropriate – it was important to get rid of unwelcome graffiti as soon as possible, but also to protect great pieces of street art.

With no further comments, the vote was taken where it was

RESOLVED THAT:

1.    consultation feedback be noted; 

2.    the proposed graffiti policy, ‘Statement of Policy regarding Unauthorised or Unwelcome Graffiti’, as at Appendix 3 of the report, be adopted, with immediate effect.