{"id":572637,"date":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","slug":"graffiti-makes-north-laine-feel-uncared-for-brighton-resident-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572637\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti makes North Laine feel uncared for, Brighton resident says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like living in a gallery, the street art is beautiful and vibrant but the tagging makes the area feel unloved and uncared for,&#8221; Brighton resident Emma Humphries said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humphreys is one of a group of locals armed with rollers and buckets of paint cleaning up graffiti tags from the North Laine area in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The colourful, bohemian area is known for its street art, including Banksy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-26254509\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famous 2004 Kissing Coppers mural<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humphreys, who is part of North Laine Community Association, said: &#8220;We have residents whose houses get tagged again and again, every time they go to sleep. They&#8217;re distressed &#8211; they&#8217;re really anxious about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s like living in a gallery, the street art is beautiful and vibrant but the tagging makes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572638,"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-572637","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\/572637","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=572637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}