Last year, as a director of Accent Group, formally B&N Housing, I visited a housing estate in Moss Side, Leyland, we were shown a block of shops where there were youth problems.

I was then informed that the local council had sanctioned an area where the local vandals could paint on the walls whatever they wanted to, and we were wrong in calling it criminal damage as the council called it 'spray can art', thus it became a legitimate pastime and not against the law.

Other councils and organisations try to bring this type of vandalism before the courts in order to stamp it out, but not your local council.

When I contacted the council last year prior to the May elections and stated I would bring this matter to the local press, it caused an investigation as to who I was and as the councillors had a vested interest in keeping it quiet before the elections, I was put under pressure by my chairman to leave well alone, this I did.

But now things have changed I am no longer a board member so I can speak out.

I trust this is of interest to you and your readers, who have to put up with vandals on a daily basis.

Peter Wilson

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