A GRAFFITI attack on a Princetown bus shelter has sparked an action plan to be implemented by Dartmoor Forest Parish Council. The shelter on the corner of Woodville Avenue was attacked by vandals in September and the council decided something had to be done to protect the area from further attacks. As well as cleaning up the area, the council sought a solution and came up with the idea of installing two gates — one at Woodville Avenue and another at the bus shelter outside the visitor centre in Princetown. But at the latest council meeting, a youth worker who runs Princetown's youth centre advised the council that putting up gates on the bus shelters would cause more trouble. On the advice of the youth worker the council decided against installing the iron gates and chose to clean the area and apply it with anti-graffiti paint, said parish clerk Ann Inman. Mrs Inman said: 'If the area was to be sprayed again with graffiti the paint would react with the spray and allow for it to be cleaned off easily. 'The cleaning of the shelter will be extremely hard work and the area will have to be steamed, but by using the anti-graffiti paint it will make things a lot easier for the future.' Mrs Inman said the council were glad not to go through with the gate plan, as the expenditure would have been more than the council's income. The Princetown community will help with the cleaning of the vandalised areas.
