FOI request (FOIR-512882774)

Street Signs

Requested Thu 04 May 2023
Responded Tue 16 May 2023

1. How many road and street signs were stolen in the last three years? Can this be broken down by year for 2021, 2022, and 2023?

2. What is the most common road/street sign to be stolen? Can this be broken down by year for 2021, 2022, and 2023?

3. What is the most common road sign to be tampered with/graffitied? Can this be broken down by year for 2021, 2022, and 2023?

Response

Hastings Borough Council only arranges the maintenance of street name signs. All other road signs are maintained by East Sussex Highways, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk

1. We can only account for the street name signs and even then, some of the signs could have been disposed of after a traffic accident, rather than being stolen.

2021 - 12 signs

2022 - 5 signs

2023 - 3 signs

2. Information not held, please contact East Sussex County Council.

3. We receive around 10 graffiti reports a year for street signs.