{"id":514350,"date":"2026-04-05T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:32:17","slug":"community-and-councillors-tackle-graffiti-hotspot-brighton-and-hove-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514350\/","title":{"rendered":"Community and councillors tackle graffiti hotspot \u2013 Brighton and Hove News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An end-of-terrace house in the Coombe Road area of Brighton has been given a fresh lick of paint after being repeatedly blighted by graffiti tagging.<\/p>\n<p>The Happy Mountain community group and Labour councillors Jacob Taylor and Amanda Evans joined forces for the job.<\/p>\n<p>They spent a morning tackling a number of graffiti hotspots in the Moulsecoomb and Bevendean area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graffiti-tagged-wall-202603.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-226220 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graffiti-tagged-wall-202603.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"468\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The owners of the property have repainted it a number of times and were grateful that the community group offered to help.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Taylor said: \u201cIt\u2019s not fair on residents to have repeated tagging. Most of this is mindless, and nothing to do with street art.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a small thing \u2013 but it really makes a difference to the area to give this prominent wall a fresh lick of paint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jacob-Taylor-paints-out-graffiti-202603.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226221 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jacob-Taylor-paints-out-graffiti-202603.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"466\"  \/><\/a>Councillor Jacob Taylor paints out graffiti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An end-of-terrace house in the Coombe Road area of Brighton has been given a fresh lick of paint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-514350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}