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TOOTHILL 11
Legal graffiti site to be shut down FOR (QUALITY

The end is in sight for the old cow shed at Toothill Farm on Bodiam Drive - both as a place for young
people to try out their artistic talents and also as a community facility. PAINTING
Swindon Council's community DECORATING
and leisure services committee has
declared it surplus to requirements .
and they are looking around for Contact
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other uses. In the short term, the `^ t z
hope a local Scout group might :I 7`^9' Andrew Goddard
lease it. t ^r j^ A member of the
One of the cub packs attached to
Ist Toothill Scouts have met in the Dulux Decorators Network
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shed for several years.
It has been a youth centre since rl.r I
the earliest days of Toothill, over ej f 6" Tel: 01793 702764
20 years ago, but it was never a ' + • + + Mobile: 0467 421798
council run facility. Several waves I + + '
of volunteers applied for grants to + + 0
renovate the building and employ
youth workers. The projects al- pressure from residents went back But graffiti has been spreading
ways foundered and over the last to a meeting he called in 1997 to in the Toothill area and must be
five years the building has attracted see what action was required. "I dealtwith. Leasing the building to
graffiti artists who wanted to de- suggested the site be developed an organised youth group could
velop their skills. for young people, but the residents reduce the problem." BELVOIR
The council turned a blind eye, by that time did not want any more • Swindon's Environmental Serv-
but residents living close-by have youth attracted to the area and ices Committee has ordered a new
long protested that the shed is un- raised a petition to get the council high tech machine for their graffiti
sightly and the empty cans, plastic to take action." remover Ray Mills. Call for advice on:
bags and junk left behind by the He said he was glad that a direc- He was pictured in the Novem- • Letting your home
artists just adds to the appearance tion has been agreed upon after ber 98 Link using chemicals and a • Buy to let and let to buy
of dereliction. two year's discussion and indeci- scrubbing brush on subways and
They also complained of the sion. The problems of graffiti and council buildings. The new equip- • Rent, legal & household
spread of 'tagging' - scribbles on the farm site has been considered ment will deliver a high tempera- insurance services
fences and lamp posts - on routes by several different council com- ture jet spray at 200lbs. per square • Free internet advertising
to the farm. mittees. inch to strip off graffiti paint from and listing in our
Local councillor David Cox said However he expressed worries any kind of surface. nationwide branches
as to what effect the decision might
have. "There are two kinds of graf- • Service individually
IAM fiti. The people who tag and de- tailored to your
face buildings with large paint-
requirements
ings are vandals. But some of the Eeec zc 4€ SE^^uGCe4 • Free information pack
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