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8 The Link Magazine • August 2005
Taggers cannot wait to destroy
S ON 7i Purton House , A
' Church End Graffiti vandals attacked a yet to be completed play area next to
='te ` r Purton Redhouse Way in Priory Vale on 15 July.
Z F Every piece of equipment being installed was marked by tags and
Swindon
scribbles. The police have photographs to match with graffiti elsewhere
SA Cert G7959 & P9204 01793 772287 and are trying to identify the culprits. Residents with any information
on this incident are asked to contact Police Community Support Officer
ORGANIC 6050 Lloyd Griffiths on 528111.
VEGETABLE BOX Call 999 to report any other suspicious activity.
SCHEME L9 at amity, Busing
Heated debate on wheelies,
NEW MONTHLY • All types of fencing installed .r
• Full patio/decking service 'A M recycling and graffiti at West forum
MEAT BOX • Made to measure gates
Beef from Purton • All pressure treated timbers Thirty residents, councillors, Swindon Council officers and police
staff melted together at the West Swindon Area Forum on 11 July in
• Help/advice on all fencing & landscape matters
House, Iamb, pork p550C/q
Free estimates on 01793 855800 a passionate debate on the burning issues of the month.
bacon & sausages P^¢
Unit 23 & 24 Oaklands Ind. Est. Braydon, Swindon Tidying up tagging
from other local
Graffiti and tagging
Soil Association
was the agenda item ad-
registered producers
KEEP YOUR vertisedintheJulyLink,
LOCAL DELIVERIES but wheelie bins and re '^'
& DROP OFF POINTS WHEELIE BIN CLEAN cycling were added fol- '
For more details visit: lowing complaints
www.purton-house.co.uk & SMELL FREE about Swindon Coun-
cil's new waste man-
• • • with a black polythene liner, agement experiment in
manufactured to BS6642 West Swindon. illc< al motorhike use ill Ccllulitr OI^rr^^rinn, f,r°toic tltr
The first 90 minutes 1 Odufone security clain pd'wu
We also supply Refuse Sacks was spent discussing
uraffiti and anti-social behaviour. wheelies and complained that rub-
Order online @
Council waste management officer bish was not being collected in
www.linersbagssacks.com Geoff Davies said the council some roads, especially where resi-
spends between £40,000 and dents cannot be bothered to sepa-
Order by post by calling
£50,000 each year on removing rate and recycle. There has been an
• Linersbagssacks on graffiti. "I've been fighting graffiti increase in fly-tipping.
01554 810054 for well over ten years and the Most people think the recycling
problem is not going away." collection is working but the recy-
He told the meeting that the cling boxes are not big enough. It
council removes racist or obscene came as a surprise to many to hear
graffiti within 24 hours of a report that recyclable material left out in
ATTENTION and removes graffiti free of charge separate containers with the plas-
tic boxes will be collected.
from private homes. Under anti-
social behaviour legislation the There has been such an enthusi-
WEST SWINDON! council will soon have powers to astic response to the plastic collec-
forceutilitycompanieslikeBT,ntl, tion bank at the West Swindon
and Thames Water to remove graf- Centre that it is to be emptied twice
fiti from street equipment. a week.
WPC Pat Salter, who was pic- • Extra recycling boxes can be
tured in July's Link in front of graf- purchased by calling Swindon
1 fiti on the West Police Point said Services on 463463.
1 the culprit had been identified. Bikers booted off
The meeting heard that Swin- After weeks of complaints about
don has launched Operation Graf- the noise of mini-motorbikes us-
fiti with a £40,000 Home Office ing the empty Cellular Operations
I grant to make inroads on the prob- car park at Peatmoor, WPC Salter
lem. The first task is to map graffiti reported that owners Vodafone are
hotspots, clean up the area and introducing better on-site security.
TAKE THE HASSLE OUT target police attention. If they return, or motorbikes are
Parents are being asked to chal- being used on footpaths in other
OF BIN CLEANING lenge children who have marker areas, mail coun PeterGreenhalgh:
pens, spray cans or photographs [email protected]
of their graffiti work
Let your local bin cleaning service clean • To re ort raffiti for removal or call the police on 528111.
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and disinfect it at a very reasonable cost of ca I l 463463. g More police contact
Wheelie way to go
Monthly clean £2 per bin The council's fortnightly wheelie New times at local police points
bin collection of non-recyclable Swindon District Centre.
(discount for 6 or 13 pre-paid cleans) waste combined with weekly re- Mon/Tues 9am - 11 am
cycling collections was criticised Wed/Thurs/Fri 7pm - 9pm
Special rates for senior citizens for its poor implementation and Sat/Sun 9am - llam
inflexible operation. West Swindon, Link Avenue
Tel: 01793 632863 The generally eco-friendly Mon/Tues 12noon - 2pm
group of residents said there had Wed/Thurs/Fri 4pm - 6pm
email: [email protected] been great confusion about the Sat/Sun 12noon - 2pm
council's first experiment with