New figures have shown that Glasgow City Council have spent more money removing graffiti last year than any other local authority in the UK.
In a new report by Structural Repairs UK, Glasgow City Council spent a whopping £649,914 on removing grafitti.
In comparison, the next Local Authority with the highest spending was the Borough of Hackney, which spent £300,000 on graffiti removal.
Also included on the list were local authorities in Oxford, Wandsworth, Greenwich and Leicester.
North Lanarkshire spent £120,000 on graffiti removal, and Aberdeen spent £94,864.
Glasgow was not in the top 10 list of cities with the highest incidents of graffiti, but 6885 incidents were recorded by the council to have occurred in 2019.
A Glasgow City Council spokesman said: “Removing unwanted, often offensive graffiti is a costly exercise and the perpetrators should be ashamed for making their fellow Glaswegians pay the price of their stupidity.
"Every pound the city has to spend clearing up after vandals could have been invested in something their community actually wants or needs.”
In August and September 2020, Structural Repairs requested data from 381 councils in the UK. Find their website here.
By using Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulation requests, the councils were asked to provide the number of graffiti incidents recorded, and the amount spent on graffiti removal, in 2019.
You can read the full study here.
