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Park Maintenance

Graffiti

The council monitors the streets for graffiti incidents and removes graffiti from council buildings, public facilities (community halls, recreation facilities, public toilets, playground equipment, street furniture, signs and on footpaths) and businesses.

Removing graffiti from private buildings and structures (residents' walls and fences) is the property owner's responsibility. 
 

The Council's Role

Dealing with the issue of unwanted or illegal graffiti is a complex issue. While it is not the council's role to remove all graffiti on public property, the council does:

  • seek to reduce the instances of graffiti and other vandalism
  • support the Port Phillip community in reducing recurrences
  • promote alternative avenues of creativity and expression.

Use eServices to ask us a question, request information or give us feedback about graffiti online. If you prefer phone ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713.

If you wish to report an act of vandalism, contact the police by dialling 000. 
 

What You Can do to Reduce Graffiti

The best defence against the wilful damage of graffiti is to make fences and walls less attractive or accessible options by:

  • planting shrubs and bushes alongside walls
  • choosing non-solid materials for fences, such as chain wire and shrubs or lattice
  • making sure front gardens are well lit
  • using stain-resistant coatings on solid walls and fences
  • considering making side walls 'legal art sites' to dissuade would-be taggers.

 
You can also,

  • advise the council if you see graffiti on council or public facilities
  • advise the appropriate authority if you see graffiti on other facilities or in commercial shopping strips (eg, bus stops, factories, shop fronts)
  • remove graffiti from your own property immediately after it occurs.
     

Oil Spills

Use eServices to report an oil spill on a road or footpath, or to ask us a question, request information or give us feedback about oil spills online. If you prefer phone ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713.

Oil spills in waterways should be reported to the Environment Protection Authority - www.epa.vic.gov.au/Reporting
 

Pollution

Instances of pollution should be reported to the Environmental Protection Authority - www.epa.vic.gov.au/Reporting/
 

Posters on Poles

Posters are removed from poles in shopping centres on a weekly basis. In other areas, the council will remove posters as they become untidy.

Use eServices to report posters on poles in shopping centres or other areas online or to ask us a question, request information or give us feedback about posters. If you prefer phone ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713.