Graffiti
Reported Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 9:43 pm, Gaol Steps, Lyttelton, 8082, Canterbury.
The reporter’s words
Yet more tagging on the new mural at the Lyttelton skate park. Also more on the jail walls around the school grassy area. I don’t understand why the council would be willing to spend so much has been spent on this mural and ongoing tag removal in this general area, yet not able to try a few security cameras to deter or catch the taggers. There are regularly people cleaning the tags off this area and the surrounding historic jail walls, but I feel it would be better dealt with by deterrence and prevention measures. I live across the road and go there daily with my dogs and just feel a deep sense of gloom and shame in the mornings starting my day to find new tags on such a regular basis. It just makes me mad. Please can you look at what can be done or perhaps talk to the community on the issue so at least we understand if there is a good reason why you can’t try cameras up high on the poles in the area. It would also help with the summer night problems in the Rose Gardens. Daily on my walks I do a round cleaning up new rubbish, usually beer bottles to get them before they get smashed everywhere. So maybe because locals are cleaning it up it might not be obvious how bad the problem is. But it would be nice not to have a reason to expect to find something new and unpleasant every morning I am there. Thanks
The filing
- Filed
- Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 9:43 pm
- Report number
- #529,542
- Filed under
- graffiti
- Coordinates
- the pin on the map →
The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Graffiti1 m away · resolved 30 Mar 2020, took 17 months · probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Graffiti15 m away · open, filed 30 Oct 2018 · probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Graffiti28 m away · open, filed 31 Oct 2018 · probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Key Issued1 m away · open, filed 21 Feb 2025
- Graffiti3 m away · resolved 10 Sept 2021, took 26 hours
- Graffiti (OLD)3 m away · resolved 6 Dec 2023, took 29 min
- Graffiti (OLD)3 m away · resolved 25 Jan 2024, took 12 min
- Leak (Park)4 m away · resolved 2 Nov 2020, took 12 days
MyCouncilTicket is the council’s own work-order stream, a different door from the public report above, and the same job can stand in both. The whole ticket roll →
Where this sits
The pin26 Oxford Streetlands 2 m from this filed address, its whole recordThe streetStepsthe street’s record, every report on itThe suburbLytteltonthe suburb, in depthThe problemGraffitievery filing of its kind on the city’s booksThe date25 Octoberthis date in the archive, across the yearsThe year2018the year’s shelf and ledgerThe mapOn the mapthe pin, among its neighboursBeforeWhat stood herewhat the archive knows of this ground
The feed listed this report when a sweep caught it 5 Sept 2026, it has not been listed since. The record here does not move.