{"id":22674,"date":"2019-02-12T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22674"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:31:10","slug":"llandaff-residents-angry-about-illegal-graffiti-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/llandaff-residents-angry-about-illegal-graffiti-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Llandaff residents angry about ‘legal’ graffiti wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

This graffiti in Llandaff North may look like a work of art.<\/p>\n

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But it has attracted anger because of where it was painted – on a wall backing onto homes.<\/p>\n

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The wall leads to Hailey Park.<\/p>\n

Originally,\u00a0most of the graffiti was on\u00a0a legal wall opposite this one.<\/p>\n

But when a Lidl supermarket opened in 2017, the wall was replaced with iron railings\u00a0and graffiti artists started\u00a0using this one.<\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0listed online as one of the legal graffiti sites across Cardiff.<\/p>\n

But people who live here say the wall is part of their homes – and they don’t want graffiti on it.<\/p>\n

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Jonathon Thomas lives by the wall and says that to reduce the problem, residents need to be more involved in the consultation process over legal sites.<\/p>\n

“Local residents should be consulted\u00a0over whether its\u00a0legal or illegal – it’s their area where they live.<\/p>\n

“Previously there used to be a legal site before the Lidl was built – local residents didn’t have any problem with that at the time.<\/p>\n

“But now the Lidl has come in and people are spraying on the back of our wall”.<\/p>\n

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Local graffiti artists say that in order to reduce the\u00a0tension between local residents and street artists, there needs to be more dedicated spaces.<\/p>\n

Keiron Jones from graffiti studio Oner Signs and Leisure says that even though this may attempt to prevent street art, illegality is a big part of the subculture.<\/p>\n

“There’s certainly a need for more legal spots obviously because that takes the crime out of the way of doing graffiti.<\/p>\n

“But intrinsically linked with graffiti is the idea of doing illegal graffiti first and then possibly going on to do more legal stuff as maybe part of a professional role”.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Cardiff Council said ‘The council uses the resources available to remove graffiti from council owned spaces – priority is given to remove graffiti which is racist, political or offensive. Any graffiti on private land or private structures is the responsibility of the private landowner’.<\/p>\n

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