The Council are working with Yorkshire Water to reduce the amount of surface water on the York – Selby cycle track at London Bridge. As well as a mains leak, the drainage ditches appear to be blocked.
The graffiti has been reported to the Council, but we understand they have no immediate plans to remove it.
Councillors Stephen Fenton and Paula Widdowson were out and about over the weekend supporting the hard work of local volunteers.
On Saturday Stephen joined the Friends of Acomb Wood for a litter pick, which was part of Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean activities, and then did a spot of graffiti removal.
Then on Sunday, Paula and Stephen helped the Chapmans Pond volunteer team with some tree-planting.
Telecom and electrical cabinets and bus shelters in Dringhouses were recently hit by a graffiti ‘artist’.
Local Lib Dem councillor Stephen Fenton (with the help of graffiti removal wipes!) tackled the bus shelters and cabinets on Tadcaster Road. The electrical cabinet on North Lane, near the entrance to Hob Moor, remains to be cleaned up.
Vandals have caused criminal damage in the Tadcaster Road area of Dringhouses in recent days.
The perspex cover on the community noticeboard at the junction with Mayfield Grove has been smashed. This comes soon after the cover on the noticeboard on the Revival estate was smashed. Both are to be repaired, with the costs to be covered from the ward budget.
The newly-refurbished playground on Nelsons Lane has been attacked by graffiti ‘artists’. Some of it is offensive and of a sexual nature. The council’s cleaning team have been asked to clean it off. The Chase Residents Association is to consider reinstating an opening and locking up rota for the playground, given that it is being abused by some people.
Cllr Stephen Fenton has informed the Police, who have confirmed that they are aware that older children are frequenting the area and intimidating the younger children, and that this is one of their current ‘hot spot’ areas.
Cllr Stephen Fenton spent the afternoon of Saturday 17 June blitzing the graffiti that has blighted a number of Virgin Media cabinets in Dringhouses & Woodthorpe.
Using special wipes designed to remove paint, Stephen cleaned up a total of eight cabinets on Chaloners Road, Wharfe Drive, Eason View, Thanet Road and Lowick.
The graffiti had first been reported to Virgin Media last year but they took no action, so the time had come to take some direct action.
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After!
We are pleased to report that the council has taken prompt action to remove graffiti on Southfield Crescent, in response to Cllr Stephen Fenton reporting the issue.
The bench and the rear of the community noticeboard were targeted by graffiti vandals.
This graffiti has been cleaned off
Cllr Stephen Fenton reported to Network Rail recently two locations in the ward where graffiti ‘artists’ have been at work – at the Hob Moor underpass and on St Helens Road railway bridge – see pictures below.
We are pleased to report that Network Rail acted quickly and the graffiti was painted over on Tuesday 14 March.
We continue to press Virgin Media to take action to clean off graffiti on their cabinets on Chaloners Road, Wains Road and Lowick.
A graffiti ‘artist’ has left his or her mark across Dringhouses & Woodthorpe recently, attacking a number of Virgin Media cabinets and one council cabinet.
We have reported all of the cabinets pictured below, and hope that they will be cleaned up promptly.
Stephen has reported to Network Rail the latest graffiti attack on the Little Hob Moor underpass, some of which is obscene.
Network Rail are usually quite prompt in dealing with this type of graffiti, so hopefully it will be painted over shortly.
We have been able to arrange for two street cabinets on Tadcaster Road to be repainted after they were daubed with graffiti – a BT cabinet opposite the junction with Nelsons Lane and a Northern Power Networks box at the junction with Middlethorpe Grove.
Ashley Mason with the newly repainted Northern Power Networks cabinet
Freshly painted BT cabinet
Sadly our local graffiti artist with the yellow pen has been at it again, this time attacking the traffic box opposite the junction with Middlethorpe Drive. We have asked the council to arrange for it to be repainted.
The latest bad art job