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painting of the skate park, its ok to paint council property |
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Aug 13 2012, 09:51 AM
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QUOTE (worried @ Aug 13 2012, 10:32 AM) I don't know, but I am sure that this sends out a wrong message to young people or is it just me ? The wrong messages have been sent out to young people for many years now.
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Aug 13 2012, 10:48 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Aug 13 2012, 09:51 AM) The wrong messages have been sent out to young people for many years now. (puts spray paints back in bag) the young - yea - it's always them Seriously though, it's a difficult point for them - caught between two clear and sensible opinions: what's the point in being all angry when someone has done a good job of it; and get your hands off our stuff we are trying to maintain standards here. Why don't they just look to encourage community support and participation in these things (i.e. reach outside of their existing little clubs and groups to find real people).
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Aug 14 2012, 07:56 AM
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QUOTE (Jayjay @ Aug 13 2012, 05:52 PM) Pleasently surprised and even shocked that a councillor is showing some common sense. Tricky one, if they don't put a stop to it then there will be no limit as to what people can paint and no quality control. Do we know if the ramp was painted using the correct paint for the purpose etc ? What if somone decides to paint the statues blue ? They can't say anything if they let some people paint the skate ramp blue, it needs to be formalised.
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Aug 14 2012, 09:34 AM
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QUOTE (andy1979uk @ Aug 14 2012, 08:56 AM) Tricky one, if they don't put a stop to it then there will be no limit as to what people can paint and no quality control. Do we know if the ramp was painted using the correct paint for the purpose etc ? What if somone decides to paint the statues blue ? They can't say anything if they let some people paint the skate ramp blue, it needs to be formalised. Indeed, so if I decide to go and paint all of the towns bus shelters a nice shade of green or all of the town benches dark blue that's ok, no need to ask permission, just do it and let them know afterwards who it was, because I am not in trouble. Its an absurd notion and under no circumstances shoukd councils or any authority countenance this type of behaviour. Ofcourse we should welcome the active participation of people and no doubt a working party to meet, agree and carry out the work would be fine. My point is it's just plain mamby pamby to say it's fine they are not in trouble...... Just going around painting other peoples property is no better than grafitti, it's criminal damage as far as most people are concerned, commoin sense on the part of cllr Allen ? no, a very wrong message about local democracy. Perhaps there could be an example where we might be happy for someone to take a brush into their own hands, I suppose if there was obscene language painted there and the council had done nothig to remove it and out of frustration a member of the public had decided to cover it up, then I would perhaps support that. I am not sure if this was the case here.
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Aug 14 2012, 12:54 PM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Aug 14 2012, 12:43 PM) Damned if they do, damned if they don't..... Unless one gets caught that it is. At the end of the day it is an eyesore with or without the paint.
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Aug 14 2012, 03:18 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 14 2012, 01:54 PM) Unless one gets caught that it is. At the end of the day it is an eyesore with or without the paint. The kids love sliding down it.
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Aug 14 2012, 07:49 PM
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QUOTE (worried @ Aug 14 2012, 10:34 AM) Indeed, so if I decide to go and paint all of the towns bus shelters a nice shade of green or all of the town benches dark blue that's ok, no need to ask permission, just do it and let them know afterwards who it was, because I am not in trouble. Its an absurd notion and under no circumstances shoukd councils or any authority countenance this type of behaviour. Ofcourse we should welcome the active participation of people and no doubt a working party to meet, agree and carry out the work would be fine.
My point is it's just plain mamby pamby to say it's fine they are not in trouble...... Just going around painting other peoples property is no better than grafitti, it's criminal damage as far as most people are concerned, commoin sense on the part of cllr Allen ? no, a very wrong message about local democracy. Perhaps there could be an example where we might be happy for someone to take a brush into their own hands, I suppose if there was obscene language painted there and the council had done nothig to remove it and out of frustration a member of the public had decided to cover it up, then I would perhaps support that. I am not sure if this was the case here. I said the Councillor used some common sense. There was no harm done and apparently a lot of good. The same when people sow wild flower seeds on verges or remove mares tail from overgrown land.
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Aug 14 2012, 09:11 PM
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QUOTE (Jayjay @ Aug 14 2012, 08:49 PM) I said the Councillor used some common sense. There was no harm done and apparently a lot of good. The same when people sow wild flower seeds on verges or remove mares tail from overgrown land. I agree Jayjay. On the whole people are responsible. David Allen's sensible attitude is not going to encourage unbridled civic decoration - people generally have a perfectly normal sense of propriety and understand that it wouldn't be appropriate to paint park benches and such. What it looks like to me is that some skate park users felt the need to paint their tired half-pipe and didn't feel able to approach the council about it - I can understand that, the council are not at all approachable.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Aug 14 2012, 10:21 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Aug 14 2012, 07:16 PM) Wot we need is more giraffes. Yes. We need that. No harm done here, why complain about it. It affects no-one here. What Simon Kirby said.
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