{"id":541291,"date":"2026-04-20T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:10:08","slug":"northampton-official-street-art-encouraged-to-discourage-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541291\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton official street art encouraged to discourage graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nigel Stansfield, Reform UK&#8217;s cabinet member for environment at the council, said: &#8220;Our growing programme of street art projects also shows that we are taking a positive and creative approach to tackling the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By working with local artists and community groups we can improve the look of our towns and protect vulnerable sites from repeated vandalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artists have already started work on a number of utility cabinets with other projects planned for murals on walls, pillars and an underpass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said most designs had been created with local groups. Roadside pieces would use simple designs linked to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said reports of graffiti had risen sharply in recent years and it hoped its additional resources &#8211; the removal van and a team offering advice and support to property owners &#8211; would &#8220;focus on keeping&#8230; public areas free from graffiti and helping to improve the look and feel of the local environment&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team has already started work on Kettering Road &#8220;to remove unsightly graffiti such as tags \u2013 or signatures \u2013 and &#8216;throw-ups&#8217; \u2013 words created from bubble lettering&#8221;, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Stansfield, Reform UK&#8217;s cabinet member for environment at the council, said: &#8220;Our growing programme of street art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541292,"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-541291","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\/541291","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=541291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}