Work has already been carried out in areas such as Son Ferrer or Cas Català, among others. Andrés Barceló, manager of Calvia 2000, explained “we are working on a planned agenda to reach as many areas and nuclei as possible in the coming months”.
The first steps been taken on Palmira beach in Paguera where walls have been repainted and graffiti has been removed by means of mechanical pressure cleaning. It has been a joint action by Calvia 2000, the Municipal Brigade and the Maintenance Department at the request of the Hotel Association of Paguera.
Barceló says that “after a visit with the hoteliers, we decided to act”.
Barceló stressed the importance of combating the incivility of graffiti and that the removal of which is covered by the taxpayer, “so it is the citizens who end up paying for the vandalism of others.”
For this reason he has called on the general public to report acts of vandalism.
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Gosh - a council that’s actually doing something about graffiti, that’s real news. Perhaps Alcúdia could take note. There is currently graffiti on large sections of the ‘world heritage’ walls. And the perpetrator has simply used his (or her, but I suspect his) tag. You would think the council/police/heritage people would be quick to address the issue, with the tourist season fast approaching. But according to the MDB they’re busy looking at parking issues. 50 year old parking issues. So it may well be a long wait and a lot more graffiti before anything is done.
There are about 13 individuals who account for 70% of the graffiti, even I know who 2 of them are. What are they doing to punish, educate and importantly communicate with these people and they are not only kids, one prolific vandal is in his 50s
They can't surely be asking the general public do more for free lol
It's taken a while for Councils to decide to clamp down on graffiti and now it looks like it's happening. At long last.