# Graffiti, Gaol Steps, Lyttelton, 8082, Canterbury

Lyttelton, Christchurch · filed 25 October 2018 · report 529542
https://www.chch.live/report/529542

> 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

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Graffiti, 1 m away · resolved 30 Mar 2020, took 17 months, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Graffiti, 15 m away · open, filed 30 Oct 2018, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Graffiti, 28 m away · open, filed 31 Oct 2018, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Key Issued, 1 m away · open, filed 21 Feb 2025
- Graffiti, 3 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 a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/lyttelton/steps
The filed address the pin lands 2 m from: https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/26-oxford-street
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/lyttelton
The attached photograph: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/00529542/0
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.60203666554448&lon=172.7238616671657

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=529542