This consultation is closed.

At the Council Meeting on Tuesday 11 February, the Graffiti Management Framework 2024-2030 was adopted. View the agenda and minutes of the meeting.

The new Framework builds on our existing objectives and aims to provide more transparent, proactive and equitable approaches to graffiti management in Yarra. The framework was developed in response to commentary we have received from the community over the last 4 years as well as the feedback from our consultation in June 2024.

Highlights of the framework include:

• improving our service levels and shortening response times to removing graffiti
• doubling the number of paint vouchers and graffiti kits available per year for residents and businesses
• centralising graffiti removal to have one point of contact
• proactively cleaning graffiti from properties flagged as unsightly
• streamlining access issues with property owners
• making it easier for renters to request graffiti removal themselves

As part of the Framework’s adoption, Council has immediately begun a proactive and assertive campaign to notify property owners in retail precincts and key activities centres of the need to remove graffiti. The cleaning of graffiti can be done either by Council or by property owners themselves. This practice also removes the need to ask for permission or objection before removing graffiti in these key activity centres.

If you would like to request removal of illegal graffiti, visit Yarra City Council’s website.

Similarly to many locations in the inner city, illegal graffiti is a serious and complex problem in Yarra.

As part of our ongoing conversation with community, we’re looking at ways Council and community can work together to manage illegal graffiti. This work is outlined in our Graffiti Management Framework.

In 2019, we received more than 500 responses to create our Graffiti Management Framework 2020-2023. The document is structured around the following themes:

Our last Graffiti Management Framework was endorsed in 2019 and we have had a chance to review the document and our approach to illegal graffiti management.

In response to feedback that we have received from the community over the last 4 years, we’re strengthening our approach and doing more to keep Yarra looking clean.