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Is it the end of the road for Traffic Flow?

Public artwork could be lost when Homes England demolishes Nottingham car park

Mark Moran
20 February 2026
Traffic Flow by Hilary Cartmel
Traffic Flow by Hilary Cartmel

 

A public artwork that has hung in Nottingham for 40 years could be lost when the city centre car park on which it was painted demolished.

Traffic Flow is a steel form on a concrete wall beneath the NCP Maid Marian Way car park in 1986. It was created by artist Hilary Cartmel, who was commissioned by Nottingham City Council to create the artwork.

“It was basically conceived on the back of a cigarette packet,” Cartmel told the BBC. “I sketched out an idea very roughly, expecting...

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