Dudley Council spends £100,000 in a year removing graffiti
A Black Country council spent more than £100,000 cleaning up graffiti last year.
The figure put Dudley among the highest spenders in the country when it came to removing messages daubed on buildings, despite actual graffiti incidents being much lower than other areas.
Officials in the borough dealt with a total of 346 incidents in 2019, nearly one a day on average.
The total of £103,913 put Dudley Council 15th out of authorities that released data in terms of cash spent on removing graffiti.
But figures showed wild disparities between how much councils were spending to remove graffiti.
Enfield Council in London, for example, spent £65,000, despite recording 2,915 incidents – eight times that of Dudley.
