{"id":16293,"date":"2025-12-30T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:14:51","slug":"festive-fly-tipping-attracts-street-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16293","title":{"rendered":"Festive fly-tipping attracts street art"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Bristol has what could be described as <em>a bit of form<\/em> when it comes to street art, with the city being the original canvas of the artist known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\">Banksy<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Indeed Bristol 247 today has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/opinion\/your-say\/graffiti-will-always-have-place-bristol\/\">piece by John Nation<\/a>, described as the city&#8217;s <em>godfather of graffiti<\/em> outlining why the city continues to be defined by the art form.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another form of art for which the city is less recognised is fly-tipping. A couple of days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/almost-200-fly-tipping-incidents-10711186\">Bristol Live highlighted<\/a> that almost 200 fly-tipping incidents are reported to the city council <em>every day<\/em>. Last year the council recorded 10,268 fly-tipping incidents, an increase from 8,556 or over 20% during the previous year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The back streets of BS5 have once again provided ample evidence of the combination of street art and fly-tipping over the festive period, with festive fly-tipping attracting the spray can school of art. Look at what your &#8216;umble scribe found up St Mark&#8217;s Grove this morning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/st_marks_grove.jpg\" alt=\"Mattress spray painted with Merry Christmas and a Christmas tree\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/st_marks_grove.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/st_marks_grove-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/st_marks_grove-366x300.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>This is not the first time that fly-tipped materials have attracted the spray can crew in that particular street (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15667\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the meantime, if you see fly-tipping, any other environmental crime or something that needs fixing, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/fixmystreet.bristol.gov.uk\/\">report it to Bristol City Council here<\/a>, otherwise central government&#8217;s GOV.UK site has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-flytipping\">a handy page<\/a> to find your local authority in England, Scotland and Wales and report fly-tipping.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol has what could be described as a bit of form when it comes to street art, with the city being the original canvas of the artist known as Banksy. Indeed Bristol 247 today has a piece by John Nation, described as the city&#8217;s godfather of graffiti outlining why the city continues to be defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[40,36,20,38],"class_list":["post-16293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-politics-2","tag-tidybs5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}