Enterprise Liverpool operate 4 teams city wide reacting to graffiti in the public environment cleaning walls, floors, and street furniture.

Teams respond and remove to reports of racist or offensive graffiti within 24 hrs and work on all other graffiti incidents on a 28 day programme.

Enterprise-Liverpool have pioneered work based upon the impact of the Anti-Social Behaviour Bill in regards to the presence of graffiti on street furniture owned by statutory undertakers such as BT and Telewest throughout the City of Liverpool.

It is a general view by companies such as BT that in essence they are the victims of such anti-social behaviour that results in the placement of graffiti on their furniture.

Under a Government sponsored scheme, a total of 12 councils are running trials of variant initiatives in lieu of the aforementioned act. The initiatives are conducted in the absence of any clear guidelines in existing legislation to deal with the issue.

The details of the variant schemes take the form of the following:

• Free issue of suitable paint from the utility with the local authority, neighbourhood teams, and in a number of cases, youth offenders providing the labour to simply re-paint the street cabinets on a cyclical programme.
• Schemes to re-paint the offending furniture with the subsequent application of an 'Anti-Graffiti' solution. The solution in question does not prevent the placement of graffiti; however it enables the furniture to be simply wiped clean with use of cleansing agents and water. Companies such as BT have looked favourably on schemes of this nature and have in a number of instances contributed 50% to the costs associated with such a scheme. Provisional numbers for BT alone suggest that some 515 street cabinets fall within the City boundary, with cost estimates ranging from £50 to £200 per cabinet for such treatment based on volumes committed to.