Volunteers invited to join graffiti clean-up

“Sarah_Jones11... what you're basically asking is 'should it be one rule for those who paint legally and within the confines of the law, and another rule for those that paint illegally and break the law.' The answer to this is clearly 'YES'. That's sort of the point of the law isn't it? Regardless of whether you personally like the outcome or not.

Exebomb... there isn't any graffiti under exe bridges, there is only art. You might not like it, you might not consider it to be art, but that's what it is, and, for the most part, it has bought an almost complete stop to graffiti happening there, as is evident by the fact that the walls remain pretty intact. As they were when they were first painted. Graffiti is illegal; If it's painted legally within the confines of the law, then it isn't graffiti. Simple. In the same vein, how can you hate graffiti but like street art? Street art IS graffiti! It's painting illegally in the street. Just because you personally happen to find one style preferable to another, it doesn't change anything... They're still both equally graffiti when done illegally and they're both equally not when they're done within the law.

Personally I walk past the bridges every day and I much prefer them now to how they were before. They've been covered in graffiti for years, at least now it's colourful, clean and interesting; before it was just tags, scribbles, obscenities, and badly drawn penises.”

“@Sarah_Jones11 - Do you mean the Devon County Council approved work in the Exe Bridge Sub ways which Exeter Council have no say over? As in the art work done by local school children? Not very charitable of you to bash the City Council for something they have no responsibility for and I'm sure all those school children would object to you having their community art scrubbed off. I think what the story is saying is that the Council are looking at trying to deal with illegal graffiti which it's responsible for, with the help of the community. Not the legal art work which Devon County have given people permission to do.”

“it looks better than the nonsence in the exe bridge subways which was completly authorised by the council. Maybe if they actualy authorised street art rather than graffiti then it wouldnt be so offensive”

“Oh I don't know - I reckon that looks pretty good - better than the bare wall!”

“The money for the Quay area - is that gonna be used to get rid of the council approved graffiti on the subways by the Exe Bridges, or is it one rule for one, and another rule for them ?”

“Instead of asking for volunteers why not make it compulsary to those claiming JSA and other government handouts. They've got all the time in the world to remove graffitti and provide other useful services in the community.”