The City of Casey is taking an innovative approach to tackling graffiti with a new program focussed on prevention and positive community engagement to help keep public spaces clean and welcoming.
Council’s Graffiti Management Program 2026-30 sets out how Council will continue to combat illegal graffiti by rapidly removing reported graffiti, strengthening enforcement and encouraging community reporting.
The plan also contains a range of new initiatives to encourage participation in creative programs to help counter illegal tagging, including education and the introduction of legal graffiti walls to provide dedicated spaces for young artists to express themselves creatively.
The plan also acknowledges how the design, development and management of public spaces can help reduce graffiti, with everyday decision about building materials, surfaces, lighting and landscaping all playing a role in discouraging graffiti.
City of Casey Mayor Cr Stefan Koomen said: “This plan gives us a clear, long-term program to manage graffiti in our public spaces and beyond that, a way to partner with the community in a creative and positive way to enrich the urban landscape, foster pride in public spaces and deter vandalism.
“While we will maintain our efforts to combat illegal graffiti, this plan recognises there can be a place for legal graffiti through urban art projects and we are looking at how we can do that.”
Reporting illegal graffiti on Council property can be done using Snap, Send, Solve. To view Council’s Graffiti Management Program, go to casey.vic.gov.au/report-graffiti