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Eyesore fear of town graffiti GRAFFITI could soon be blighting Bognor Regis again, its residents have been warned. A partnership deal which enabled the anti-social paintwork to be quickly removed has been scrapped. West Sussex County Council pulled out of the deal with Bognor Regis Town Council to mean it will only pay to tackle the scourge of the spray painters on highways property in the town and its
surrounding parishes. Town council policy and resources committee chairman Cllr Adam Cunard said at Monday's meeting the county council’s action was outrageous. “We are halfway through the municipal year and the county council have just told us they will not be paying us for the agreement. “The graffiti is going to build up quite quickly. We want to be able to remove it
but we will not be paid for it. “If we start to remove it, without being paid, the county council will not pay us again and we can’t afford for that to happen,” he said. Sarah Norman, the council’s assistant clerk, said the ripping up of the agreement had already stopped an incidence of graffiti on a container at Bersted Brooks local nature reserve from being removed.
“Town Force would have gone out to remove that and we would recoup the cost from the county council. We are now unable to do that because it’s the town council’s time and money being used and we will not be able to recoup it from the county council,” she said. Cllr Cunard’s anger at the meeting was backed by other members of the committee. See page 5
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