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Council will remove Banksy mural Council orders Banksy art removal
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An artwork by street artist Banksy in central London will be removed by a council to send a message to graffiti artists in the city. An artwork by street artist Banksy in central London will be removed to send a message to graffiti artists in the city, a council has decided.
Westminster City Council said it would paint over the 22ft-high (7m) mural on Newman Street, off Oxford Street, which is a criticism of CCTV in the UK. Westminster City Council has ordered a 22ft-high (7m) mural, entitled One Nation Under CCTV, to be removed from a building on Newman Street.
Deputy leader of the council Robert Davis said keeping the mural would mean "condoning" graffiti.
The artist's sketches have sold for thousands of pounds at auctions.The artist's sketches have sold for thousands of pounds at auctions.
The mural has the words "One Nation Under CCTV" stencilled above two painted people But deputy leader of the council Robert Davis said keeping the mural would mean "condoning" graffiti.
The mural has the words "One Nation Under CCTV" stencilled above two painted people.
One appears to be a child in a red hooded top apparently painting the words, while a police officer holding a camera and a brown dog look on.One appears to be a child in a red hooded top apparently painting the words, while a police officer holding a camera and a brown dog look on.
If you condone this then you condone graffiti all over London Councillor Robert Davis The mural is painted on the wall of a building shared by Royal Mail and another business.
If you condone this then you condone graffiti all over London Westminster City councillor Robert Davis
The council said that once it was established who owned the painted wall, the artwork would be erased by the owner.
Mr Davis, who is also chairman of the council's planning sub committee, said: "I take the view that this is graffiti and if you condone this then what is the difference between this and all the other graffiti you see scrawled across the city?Mr Davis, who is also chairman of the council's planning sub committee, said: "I take the view that this is graffiti and if you condone this then what is the difference between this and all the other graffiti you see scrawled across the city?
"If you condone this then you condone graffiti all over London.""If you condone this then you condone graffiti all over London."
The mural is painted on a wall of a building shared by Royal Mail and another business. Banksy has created at least one other artwork in the borough, in an underpass in Marble Arch.
The council said once it was established who owned the painted wall the artwork would be erased.
Banksy has created another artwork in the borough, in an underpass in Marble Arch.
But that mural has not been removed as the whole area is being redeveloped, the council said.But that mural has not been removed as the whole area is being redeveloped, the council said.