[Happy Shopper]

They're putting scaffolding up in front of it right now!

[Fragile]

alternatively it could be mr b and his crew putting up the scaffolding and we are about to get a new piece! :-)

[Curley]

Say Goodbye.

[Standard]

I have just asked in the cabin opposite and was told they are preserving it! Not sure if it's true as it's a postal worker who told me.

[babyford]

I bet Banksy did not put so much scaffolding up to create it

[mammal1]

Thats going to be a massive sheet of perspex!

[Replete]

They'll probably replace it with a massive visual ad hoarding version of the piece a la Piccadilly circus and retitle it "One Nation Under HDTV (sponsored by Sony)" ;D

[stillborncrisps]

PMSL

[low3]

Mar 6, 2009 16:37:50 GMT 1 @mammal1 said:

Thats going to be a massive sheet of perspex!

And some industrial size barrels of yacht varnish?!

[fuzzed]

any update?

[Macdeee]

Ooooh... I wonder whats going on here? I would go and check but im in Cardiff. Someone go have a look.

[butterfly]

As of today




www.flickr.com/photos/s-butterfly/3335122227/

[mcnuts]

thanks for these butterfly

[chablis]

Apparently it ha been declared graffiti by Westminster City Council and won't be removed, but will be covered so that it is hidden.

uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090307/video/vod-banksy-mural-deemed-graffiti-and-mus-f1a0497.html

[cashman]

Mar 7, 2009 19:41:08 GMT 1 chablis said:

Apparently it ha been declared graffiti by Westminster City Council and won't be removed, but will be covered so that it is hidden.

uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090307/video/vod-banksy-mural-deemed-graffiti-and-mus-f1a0497.html

to preserve and sell more like

[twist65]

i think that is the only reason they're not getting rid - "well it's graffiti but worth a few bob, lets sit on it for now while we work out how us councillors can profit from it..."

[mcnuts]

thanks for that and a giant WTF..... why bother covering it? man you'd there there was a bit more to worry about?

Mar 7, 2009 19:41:08 GMT 1 chablis said:

Apparently it ha been declared graffiti by Westminster City Council and won't be removed, but will be covered so that it is hidden.

uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090307/video/vod-banksy-mural-deemed-graffiti-and-mus-f1a0497.html

[kahuna]

What a fookin joke. With all the reductions in services resulting from the credit crunch, you would think the wise ones in Westminster would find a more productive use for the limited funds currently available.

[stillborncrisps]

Mar 7, 2009 20:57:45 GMT 1 twist65 said:

sit on it for now while we work out how us councillors can profit from it..."

It's not on Council property, so councillers wont profit no matter what happens to it (I get what you mean though).

Coz it's on private property the council can't force them to buff it - ISTR they've used a planning law to say it can't stay (like when someone puts up a dodgy extension on their house without getting proper planning permission).

My guess is the owner is covering it to give time perhaps to apply for permission retrospectively, or wait until the council's mood has changed in, say, 5 years.

What would be funniest is if the cover is as Replete suggests, one of those giant ad hoardings, but instead of an ad it is a lifesize reproduction of the piece underneath. Can't be classed as graffiti then, coz it's a photograph.

[Replete]

As it's on the post office property they should cover it up with thousands of commerative banksy stamps arranged in a way to give the appearance of the piece underneath like pixels on a TV image

[melfeasance]

brilliant, brilliant, both a yous

[Replete]

Aww now I'm going to have to go through the land registry and find who the title holder of the deeds is.

I had my proposal pitch all mapped out for the Post Office bosses and my powerpoint presentation was looking so sharp you could get a papercut off it

[Replete]

Thanks for the offer but it looks like the interior lining may have perished by now and I've got this little number picked out already.

I think the PO execs can empathise with an abomination of a business model that needs to be put out of it's misery

[eddiedangerous]

hasnt london profitted financially enough already from this and the essex road piece? dont forget both hirst and banksy donated to kens election fund with these??





I always saw this a mr b buying the city officials silence over the cctv piece and the piece on essex road....

obviously it wasnt enough to keep em quiet for long!!

[mammal1]

The defaced piece was produced to raise funds for Aids research, and the Essex Rd piece was purchased by Steve Laz with the funds being given to Ken as a party donation. Ken in return helped arrange the lease for Leake St.

[eddiedangerous]

so do you think the end of cctv is the end for the tunnel as well now? it would seem to follow suit

(i thought the red auction was in aid of glorifying ken as well as for charity??)

[manty]

cctv is a great image, maybe they want to frame it?

[Standard]

Do you think that's misterframeman in the high viz & hard hat. ;D

could be..

[manty]

well everyone knows Gary loves his perspex

[fuzzed]

The very latest - Gone!

Just seen this on flickr, under a layer of grey paint apparently.



Flickr photo by delete08 - www.flickr.com/photos/delete08/3348501381/