UPDATE: Currently this previously legal site is on hiatus. Continue to paint at your own risk. Permission has been retracted after a dispute but hopefully will be restored in the future.
FIRST AGREED URBAN ART SITE
ORGANISED BY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS + BEESTON STREET ART
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Agreement Update
National Highways and the Beeston Street Art project in Nottingham have teamed up to create their first Agreed Site.
Since the 1970s when graffiti was born as protest art in North America, spray painting has been an under the radar form of creative expression at the Clifton flyover site. Built in 1958, this particular part of the vast road structure has been referred to as ‘Brown’s Tunnels’ after a bakery near there that fed artists among many others since the 1980s.
“This agreement enables expression by Nottingham’s artists to be both safe and permitted at this particular site moving forwards.”
National Highways
“We are really grateful that art is being allowed by National Highways here. Many areas like this have been considered unloved and a nuisance to authorities but our project (among many others throughout the UK and beyond) has hopefully changed this mind set and brought people together. The artists I have met are talented and passionate; they want to be able to paint safely and teach their craft to younger generations. We hope this space will become an attraction for all ages and revitalised by this agreement. It will also hopefully make precedent for a new attitude and direction by other property owners.”
Jeanie Barton
Beeston Street Art
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The Site
Below are the areas included in the site.
You can also download a PDF of these at the bottom of the page.
Beeston Civic Society 
