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Hi, I sent this video to local media and the council has responded. A council spokesperson said: "Coventry is a great city and a wonderful place to visit. "Our city is full of hard-working people, and we are working with a range of partners, including landlords, to support improvements as well as seeking private sector investment. In terms of fly-tipping our officers do regular checks across the city and deal with fly-tipped materials on our land straight away. "We also routinely serve notices on tenants, landlords and landowners to clear their land and make repairs on their properties. In the past year alone we have served over 800 notices to force removal of waste from private land. "Of course there is always more to do. But there is much to celebrate in our city too. "This issue is also about personal responsibility, and we encourage anyone who sees fly-tipping to report it anonymously".
@yarnyellow88 I'm a 84 baby born and bred but also I travel football nomore tho my heath bad and you can get away tickets nomore...but fly tipping is everywhere...trouble with coventry everywhere needs making new bell green wood end tile hile ball hill far gosford
@@richardgoldins4790 the trouble with Coventry is the council doesn't care. I caught my neighbour fly-tipping 3 days in a row recently. People seem to think it's normal.
The shittier the place, the better the bands that came out of it. Back in the day, the main three avenues of escape from deprived working class areas for boys and young men were football, boxing or starting a rock band. Not everyone was able to play football or box at the highest level, but many at least tried to play a guitar.
@@martinspeer262 yes i know its a city, im from leicester which also is a city, coventry is in the west midlands, leicester is east midlands, im not sure if your from the uk? But anyway there we go back to sunday rest.😆
Thank you for making this video. I have lived in all of the areas featured except Bell Green but remember walking there from Henley Green to go shopping when I was a kid. I currently live in Foleshill which is the worst area for fly-tipping according to the council. I have also collected hundreds of photos of fly-tipping in Foleshill, Hillfields and Henley Green over the past 4yrs. The bed dumped in Hillfields at 5:00 has been there since August 2023 because I took a photo of it when I went to look at the flat it's at the back of. I also saw a resident dumping rubbish outside their own home nearby. I reported it to the council and the social landlord responsible for the area (Citizen). I turned down the flat because it was even worse inside and the area stank so bad it made me gag. In September 2023, both the council and Citizen said they had removed the fly-tipping which is clearly false because it's still there in your video. In April 2023, the council also admitted that crime and prostitution in Hillfields are "tolerated by all agencies". It's no wonder the area is the way it is (Hillfields is renowned for prostitution). I also grew up in a house directly opposite the tower block in Henley Green. There used to be shops and a pub around the block which were knocked down when I was a kid. I still remember some of the shopkeepers. Nothing has been done since and the derelict car park is still there but has been blocked off. The tower block was originally built by the council but was sold decades ago. However, the council recently leased it back for more than it's worth to house homeless families. The lease was agreed in 2017 for 5yrs. The block is not fit for habitation but the council is still dumping homeless families in there. You also mentioned that Henley Green is one of the most deprived areas in England. This is why the Henley College was built. However, it recently closed and plans have been put forward for new housing on the site. The Henley College campus has merged with the City College campus which means students from Henley Green will now have to pay travel costs to get there. The council also sold the lease for Riley Square in Bell Green because it was the easy option. However, the developer recently defaulted on a loan and have been suspended from regenerating the site. Most residents were moved out of the block facing the main road because it was due to be demolished. There are only a few stragglers left who will probably be forgotten about while the building rots. Residents have given up because the council simply doesn't care. This is the area with the lowest election turnout and it's also the seat of the council leader. It's totally shameless. I set up a new political party in 2019 to tackle some of these issues (Coventry Citizens Party). Our candidate in Willenhall has been working tirelessly in the area over the past 5yrs including carrying out regular litter picks. He came 50 votes short of winning in this year's council elections but got no mention in local media (typical bias). I will send this video to local media to see if the council have any comment on the issues you have highlighted. I also note you avoided Wood End in your video. That was very wise! Sometimes the buses don't even go there.
A council spokesperson said: "Coventry is a great city and a wonderful place to visit. "Our city is full of hard-working people, and we are working with a range of partners, including landlords, to support improvements as well as seeking private sector investment. In terms of fly-tipping our officers do regular checks across the city and deal with fly-tipped materials on our land straight away. "We also routinely serve notices on tenants, landlords and landowners to clear their land and make repairs on their properties. In the past year alone we have served over 800 notices to force removal of waste from private land. "Of course there is always more to do. But there is much to celebrate in our city too. "This issue is also about personal responsibility, and we encourage anyone who sees fly-tipping to report it anonymously".
Born in Wyken in 63 and moved to Cambridge in 1977. Coventry was a great place to be and I have some fond memories of all places, we’d walk and cycle all over as kids, through Bell Green and Stoney Stanton Rd, Wood End Henley Green to Memorial Park, Saturday pictures at the Odeon. The Morris common on our doorstep and a walk across the railway tracks onto a slow transporter trailer, hop on the back and jump off before new street Birmingham and go silver Blades skating. From 10 to 14yr we were streetwise. Today, I worry for kids coz not everyone is who you think they are, back then there was no wolves amongst us.
Exactly. I've moved to Coventry in 2010, then moved to Birmingham in 2017 and came back to Coventry in 2024 for a short visit. I saw massive downward spiral in terms of people gradually since 2010. But it just went downhill from 2017, very rapidly. Way too many "wolves" around.
I was born in Willenhall Coventry and I’m very proud of that, growing up around there was great. Coventry is what it is but please don’t think everywhere looks like that. You’ll find bad areas in every city ours is no different but real Coventarians are some of the best people you’re likely to meet.
Same here mate. Born in Willenhall 1966. Different times then but rapid decline throughout the '70's. You'll struggle to find genuine Coventrians in the city today. You import the third world - You become the third world.
@apathyintheuk265 Cardiff close myself... back in the 80's it was a brilliant place to live.. proper sense of community and we all stuck together... sadly that is not true anymore.
@@dwburns7709Dogberry close myself . Everyone used to call you lot the Dunsmore possie . Great times dossing about over the Hostels . We used to go in Boliler rooms to keep warm during the winter.
@domthegamer5995I've worked in different areas in Coventry and there's a heck of a lot of Roma Gypsies around Foleshill and Hillfields. It mostly looks like a dump. I remember going over to see relatives when I was a kid in the late 90's. It used to look half ok back then.
Wicked video mate! I cover Coventry for work and it certainly has bad areas BUT every town and City does these days. Cracking watch as always!! ….Smithy
I was brought up in Hillyfields, Bell Green and Foleshill. Those high rises are absolutely disgusting. Immigrated to the USA decades ago. Greetings from Phoenix, Arizona.
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@domthegamer5995 I'm also from Coventry, now living in Tempe, AZ. It's great here if you can take the summer heat. It's brutal. Portugal sounds a good bet.
I've lived in all these places from 1960 until 1990 back in the day Bell Green with all the shops was great Hillfields was so diverse where I brought my Reggae records from as it had a shop that imported Jamaican reggae.... Lived here in a rented room... Henley Green like Wood End has always been dodgy... The plan was to build houses for families flats and bed sits for singles or small families and then bungalows for the older population it was a social experiment that went wrong lots of the flats and bedsits have since been demolished... I lived in two flats here and a house... Willenhall was always deprived like Wood End and Henley green I lived in a bedsit here and later a bungalow.... Foleshill is again deprived but has some great shops for veg and fruit but the housing is cramped it is probably more diverse than Hillfields.... But with all that said although I was broken into multiple times especially in wood end the people I became friends with were fantastic it's just some crime "Families" spoiled it for everyone else....
We moved out of Coventry in the 70’s when I was a kid, to the outskirts. My Dad was a copper in Coventry back then, and his beat was Bell Green area, he always used to say it toughened him up.
@@EgoChipDull far left, wokey that touches its self over its country and peoples decline that or yet another Islamist who will find out what provoking us means for you lot 🤡
I feel sorry for Coventry, it used to be a massive industrial city and wealthy in most areas. The majority of the city was destroyed in WW2 and with that came the redevelopment in the 50s and 60s which left us with the dump it has been for decades. Unemployment due to death of industry has rocked the place and we all know it as chav central now. Shame, just a reminder this is the 6th richest country in the world.
The 'majority' of the city was not destroyed - City centre most certainly. After that selective factories were targeted - a lot also being close to the city centre.
@@apathyintheuk265 What are you talking about? Over 42,000 homes were damaged sufficiently to require rebuilding, that was over half the housing stock of the entire city. In one of the first raids on Coventry 4300 homes were destroyed and two-thirds of the buildings in the city centre were damaged. Coventry was carpet bombed, you make it sound like the Luftwaffe selectively bombed specific targets which isn't exactly true. The city changed completely in a very short space of time, the redesign through the 50s and 60s were meant to be a city of the future but it turned into a city of concrete blocks and loss of employment.
@@tacticaldelusion The City centre was a highly populated residential area back then - as well as being a hub for industry as well as the ancient historical artefact. It was a win win as far as a wartime target was concerned - cripple the war effort and demoralise the people of a City. I can assure you the Luftwaffe did bomb selective targets - garnered from intel. Do you honestly think they flew over 600 miles to just casually drop bombs at will with an endless supply of fuel in the vague area of the outlying suburbs - that didn't occupy critical industry? Your last paragraph concerning 'loss of employment' is quite frankly embarrassing. Have you not heard the term, 'Boom Town'? Good god, man, have yourself an early night.
@@apathyintheuk265 the ignorance is strong in you. Coventry was a town & was only designated city status after vast swathes were flattened by the germans & was rebuilt. Technology didn't exist for precision bombing in 1940. The germans carpet bombed areas because that's all they could do.
Me too moved out off cov still have house though nearly 10 years lived in finham area also lived in Stoke Foleshill etc now in rural Derbyshire best thing I ever did
@jamesmason8436 too much youngsters taking drugs etc the public footpath on the kenpas highway side of the car dealer is a meeting drop off point for youngsters the area,not so great as 20years ago pub was OK stychall arms back in the day
Turned in to? I lived there in the late 90's and as soon as I was old enough I got the hell out. It has always been rough as hell. Cheylsmore, Stivichall and Earlsdon aside, I don't think there's an actual good area in Coventry.
This is what becomes of having consecutive Labour councils do to a city.Ruined by, the council for years. Now turning into a third world Dump. Well done you shitty councilors. Ruined a once beautiful city. Now a ghetto.
This video needs sending to the Coventry city council thay should be ashamed of all this rubbish when thay keep putting council tax up were is all this money being spent Coventry has become like a third world country
These areas are an absolute dump. Cov city centre is even worse the last language you hear is English and I am 1st gen ethnic minority myself. Absolute dive of a city now.
Echo that for the rest of the country - If you import the third world, well what a surprise - You become the third world. Get the tories out but for god's sake DO NOT vote labour in! You want change? Vote for change!
Hmmm it's almost like the people in charge dont care. 🤔 They take our taxes and spend them on their mates or vanity projects. Also, immigration doesn't work.
There are two industry's left in the UK. One is buying and selling houses to each other and the other is renting ( unfit to live in) houses to the poorest in society
I think part of it is they let the area go completely to rot so the land becomes so cheap they sell it to developers who then build crappy new builds on them and charge ridiculous rates.
What can they do? Unfortunately, a lot of people in these areas won't help themselves. Not up to taxpayers to fund better lives for them if they cannot be asked. Life is too short to worry about everyone.
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Coventry has a zero-tolerance policy toward people who drop litter, which includes litter thrown from vehicles. We have a team of officers who carry out regular patrols, issuing fixed penalty fines of £100 to offenders. Our aim is to reduce litter through enforcement and education. As per the council website....I don't think it's working.....
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Coventry has a zero-tolerance policy toward people who drop litter, which includes litter thrown from vehicles. We have a team of officers who carry out regular patrols, issuing fixed penalty fines of £100 to offenders. Our aim is to reduce litter through enforcement and education.
council housing and the police .have decided to ignore victims .they now blatently between them making up what ever fits best in reports about crime .with out even talking to the victims .it best way to get premotion make it up between them.the lot ignore your employers the public .make every thing look rosey .now if a victim persists he treated as hostile and farmed by the police untill they find a reason to arrest you to shut you up .making victims out of criminals to teach them a lesson.we got councilors like the tory marcus lapsa latching on to homeless charities to use banned landlords like hannor jackson as volentry staff council has a mantra they keep too if you leave you home you not be rehomed .so marcus and hannor seen best to exploit that by giving unfit homes to the most needy of junkies .and if you living next to one of these drug dens police will laugh treat you the same hannor coke head jackson had contracts with the police and council .we got pcso and now sacked pc birds .trying to evict honest people so there crackheads farmed area spon end can get worst for the repeat custom .untill they was banned from the area .coventry is been used by the tory here and the police for far too long .and the people doing this does not even live here .
Born and raised in Coventry, moved away 20 years ago and so glad I did as it was going downhill rapidly even back then. I go back now and I can't believe how bad the place is.
@@Nzwarriord No way. Leicester is even worse than Coventry. M40 for me, there are some decent places in that direction - and no, London is not one of them!
@thebouncer9107 I've moved out of cov 9 years ago Derbyshire lovely countryside very slow pace off live lived in cove 30 years Stoke Foleshill still have property finham area but I can't reconside the place especially Foleshill looks like Baghdad no offence
Coventry has changed since the 1980's . I enjoyed living there , the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met anywhere . Back in the 80's I walked through Hillfields every day , there was no litter then , just graffiti saying " ZION IS HELL " . The ingredients to cook a whole curry cost what a bunch of Coriander costs now . Inflation is eating this country along with other factors .
Yeah unfortunately they don't seem to understand that nature and the environment are both nice and important. It's weird it just does not compute in their brain.
If you were more intelligent than a fart you would know that fly-tipping and littering isn't exclusive to ethnic minorities; I have also known native white British do the same, Dunce.
@@velvetinedrapes4359 i think they showing there respect for our invatation.this how they repay people by looking at us like shit and treating us that way too.i found one of the shops charged me £1.80 for a pint of milk adding a $1 for the use of the card not tell me .i went in to tell them i was hit with the racist card police called the lot .
@@ChristopherPin I used to live in Bell Green back when it wasn't too bad. I used to walk my German shepherd in Wood End and the amount of boarded up houses that have been turned into drug dens is crazy. A really dangerous place.
Good God we've worked there and I feared our vans were going to get broken into. One of our vans was actually broken into and cleared out in an Area called Spon End if I remember correctly. Coventry has a vast majority of council houses, CHAVS & some seriously underbelly. I turn down any work there now. I almost got into a fight in the Bell Green Aldi because some scutters were que jumping.
Worst thing i've personally seen/had to deal with in Hillfields is when i was doing Work Experience with Openreach, Call out for a Fault @ Thomas King House & as we were pulling up Two Subsaharans were in the street as Kids were coming out of school, one of them in the open pissing against the wall whilst families with young kids were just leaving school around the corner & as were waiting to be buzzed into the block those lads are there standing around trying to get our attention, whilst we're trying to ignore them & they start talking to themselves saying "ah yeah just keep ignoring us because you think we're just a bunch of ni**ers". Most ignorant bullshit i've seen in a while.
I had the misfortune of driving and walking through Foleshill Road, Coventry. It was, shall we say, undesirable. Foleshill Road is approximately one mile long, and every building along it, and I am not exaggerating when I say, was a shop owned or run by Asian and Middle Eastern peoples. Some shops were shuttered, and the general area was grimy, litter-strewn, and rundown. The Town Centre and the surrounding area where the Lady Gadiva statue was situated weren't any better and heaving with people who generally looked dejected, out of work, and covered in tattoos and face staples. If I hadn't known better, I would have thought I was in Bangladesh, Calcutta, or Cairo.
Brooo this also makes me sad I'm 39 nearly 40 now. When I was 18 19 yrs old Foleshill Road was beautiful 😍 everyone got along. No gangs. No fly tipping. No rubbish on the roads. Everything was good. Now I won't say but the romainains have destroyed Foleshill road
@@missunderstood7830 From my experience, most, if not all, Northern towns and cities have degenerated into the same mongrelised hell holes. I live in Cambridgeshire, and my nearest town is St Neots, a once quiet rural market town until about 20 years ago. That was when the rot started. Mass immigration and nonstop sink estates spring up like mushrooms. Local amenities, roads, hospitals, schools, surgeries, etc, are now suffocated by the extreme volume of those who do not speak English, dress differently, look differently, have a lower value on life, and have no intention of intergrating. This influx of strangers has created benefit ghettos and rampant crime. I weep for my culture and my fellow natives.
I honestly don’t really understand why there’s a correlation between poverty and throwing your rubbish all over the place. There’s no social reason apart from being stupid for doing it.
Totally agree, I live in Northampton beautiful park behind me, just been across it plastic bottles everywhere, and it really is a lovely park, some people just live like pigs, nothing to do with poverty, I'm skint but I still use the bins provided or take rubbish home
There's quite a few reasons poverty can cause littering. Crime, lack of education, lack of pride in the area. For me the main problem is a lack of public services like street cleaning, proper disposal, available bins etc. Take a nice area like kensington - you drop litter, a council cleaner will have swept it up by the end of the day. You fly tip a sofa, a resident will report it (which again links back to having pride in the area) and the council will arrange disposal. Poor areas don't get that same level of public service, so the rubbish problem just gets exponentially worse.
The countries council estates are being turned into slums similar to Africa India and Pakistan. Wait a minute? What’s the majority ethnicity groups in these areas?
You're talking rubbish, yes, these estates are bad, I personally wouldn't want to live in, or near such a place, but a lot of them are no worse than a lot of the council estates where the majority of the residents are British. Have you been to the slums in the countries you mention? There is no comparison.
@@kazkumar6168 Yes, @redmeth07 makes Such a ridiculous, uninformed comment. The slums in the places mentioned aren't supplied with electricity, running water or sanitation, let alone any sort of benefits system.
Honestly! The producer of these videos should find something more productive to do rather than spending lots of time filming areas and then making his own comments which are useless to the public. By associating crime, drugs, fly tipping and poverty with specific races of people leads to racial hatred. The local authorities, police forces and residents are well aware of their surroundings. Issues and problems faced by towns and cities have always existed. One should not rely on a video like this to understand an area. Not all places shall look like the grounds of Balmoral Castle. UK Explored videos are boring and monotonous having seen a few. This video shows the producer is judgemental by suggesting whoever lives there is responsible for how the area appears.
@@Geoffbrower007 all I’m saying is, I grew up in an area from this video. I’ve traveled all over the country. Lived in a few other cities. Honestly Coventry is a lot better than most. Is this because it’s looked after by the council? No. The country is on its arse. But if the creator of this video, spent his time with me. Who knows the city like the back of my hand. Or another person who grew up here. Maybe the video would be a lot more informative. Anyone can film a few closed down shops and run down flats and go oh what an awful area. Speak to the people involved I say.
Hi Alex I totally agree with you 👍☺️✅the producer UK Explored has done the same thing in videos he took of other towns and cities and some people were stupid enough to believe it which led to openly racist comments directed at ethnic groups 😡fly tipping, poverty and crime have always been in populated areas and specific races of people are not to blame, they haven't caused it, a majority of the residents are law abiding citizens but due to the incompetence of UK Explored he's created a platform for racism 😡👎👎👎👎👎this won't be tolerated now and wasn't tolerated in the past👿filming dumped rubbish, fly tipping and showing some crime headlines is not indicative of the people who live and work there 😠the man from UK Explored really does need educating and I've told him the same. Coventry is a nice city as we know it well and we won't be defeated by ignorance, Alex, you have a super day 😊cheers
I tell you why there is so much litter, white goods and mattresses on the streets - the local councils charge too much at the waste centres. Council tax is not used for the bin men to clean the streets - shameful. When I lived in Luton, a car was £10 to even enter, then they charged on top for you to bring your waste. In Ireland, you can take mattresses for 10 euros each and get them recycled into new. Great scheme, but lets face it, if you are proper skint, you can't afford to recycle.
The Council charge about £16 for 5 items to be removed (big items like a fridge, a mattress, a sofa or 5 bags of rubbish is classed as 1 item) then if you want 5 more removed it's another fiver. I think that's pretty reasonable because if you can't drive or you haven't got a big enough car to fit your fridge freezer in, then you can just call them and they'll pick it up from the roadside outside your house. The tip is free to use, unless you have a van. Then I don't know what the charge is, but you could just save your time and petrol and pay £16 for the service I mentioned. People are just lazy and don't want to pay or do anything about their problem of getting rid of their item that they bought.
I lived in Coventry my family still do it’s the same lot place’s definitely changed since I lived their I lived their in the 70s and 80 s no rubbish anywere then but I wasn’t from these areas x
Not sure where you get some of the data from but I don’t see any part of Coventry as predominantly white. Very much minority white in fact. Even Foleshill for example is well off. I could genuinely drive up and down Foleshill Road for a week non stop and not see a single white person
Oh 100% a lot of people will blame immigrants but that’s not completely the issue. It’s the overpopulation and illegals that are the issue. The census data is probably accounting for 1 in 6 of each household that are actually legal. Good video from you nonetheless mate
Honestly Coventry has hardly changed in 40 years. I grew up here in the 1980's and there are still just as many homeless people. All the regeneration seems to have come to nothing.
I moved to Foleshill in 2017, leaving in 2019 and it genuinely didnt feel that bad. Id make the occasional shopping trip over to Bell Green and that was notably rougher. Left the midlands in 2019 and now live in the countryside...much nicer.
Coventry is seriously horrible. I did live around Foleshill for a bit while doing part time study at University of Warwick, Driven all round Hillfields and Bell Green and it was horrid. The only best parts of Coventry is on the west side around Tile Hill, Allesley, Westwood and Burton Green
Absolutely love this channel! Would love you to come to my hometown of Preston and review the New Hall Lane/Ribbleton area. It is rife with drugs, crime and prostitution.
That shopping centre at the start of the video was once a thriving one. Hillfields has long been a hole but now filled with people from the third world. So to the Foleshill and Stoney Stanton Rd areas The indigenous population are increasingly avoiding the city centre as well now. It too is looking increasingly like a third world country. The council are all in favour of continued mass immigration into the city, so ithings are only going to get worse and worse. .
Blimey! You're brave walking round those areas. Surprised Wood End isn't on the list. I was born there in 1960 but luckily we moved to Canley in 1964 which was a great place to grow up at the time. There used to be a pub called the 'Live and let live' in Wood End its nickname was the 'Live and let die' though. A workmate back in the 80s said that he went to play darts there. One of the other players opened his jacket to get his darts out and there was a massive concealed blade. He let him win. I escaped Coventry in the mid 80s thankfully and never went back.
I remember (in the early 80s?) someone being found at the bottom of one of the tower blocks with multiple stab wounds. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances! It turned out he'd got into an argument with his missus, shouted "I'll show you!" and started stabbing himself. That didn't work so he went to the top of a neighbouring tower block and threw himself off. Nice that he didn't make a mess outside his own home :) I used to lock my doors when driving past the 'Live and Let Die' but our old house in the Brierley Road estate (in Henley Green) not far from there still looks fine, it was very localised. I only go back for funerals nowadays.
You forgot to investigate Wood End its just as bad as Bell Green,if you mix them up you end up with some one who lives in Bell End, known as a Bellendian, there's plenty of them around , especially on the roads, they have cars that keep backfiring so that we know where they are.☠💩🦨🩲💉🗑🤨
Sadly, the city has gone downhill badly over the years. We moved to Cov in '56 when I was three, and in truth it was a good place - even Bell Green, which we lived on the outskirts of. Once a village, it was hugely developed post-war, including Riley Square. In its early days it was a superb shopping centre with quality shops and a Sainsbury's supermarket, a good library, health provisions, and dentist (in the sixties). The decline was rapid though, to the point that it's now beyond repair, as you have seen. We recently sold my mother's house after she passed, and as you also allude, house prices are surprisingly high. It's a little confusing tbh. I hope for some future improvements there, but one gets the sense that the local population is well past caring, which is all rather sad.
...also near baggington there was a roundabout system which has been altered now with a bypass which was known locally as "suicide island"!! having used it i know why!!
I visited wood end, coventry about 20 years ago and it was the worst estates I'd ever seen in the UK half of it was boarded up or burnt out it must of improved a lot to not make this list.
The saddest thing is how obvious it is those areas have just been left to rot people in need at their lowest point will probably be dumped there by the authorities continuing the cycle.
I used to work at Foleshill back in the very early 1980s. I worked at the Alfred Herbert Toolmakers factory site at Edgewick, off Crossroads. I'd just not long left school at the time & took up an apprenticship there. I used to go to the nearby Edgewick Park for my launch breaks & then browse around the local shops too. Many happy memories indeed. Hard to believe that's 44 years ago now.
Import the third world get the third world, I lived in Coventry growing up, moved out to Lincolnshire and loved the countryside and then moved to Canada and now even Canada is experiencing this and again it's the same demographic that when they arrive things get messy and crime rates rise.
the buildings do not cause the crime, the people in them cause the crime. High rise buildings are almost always local authority homes and they are often filled with the uneducated or undisciplined. with military service and private policing, combined with govt legislation to jail wrongdoers indefinitely, these places would be transformed.
Nothing to do with poverty either,in the rough areas near where I live the jobless criminals rule the roost,posh cars ,posh clothes they don't even hide it ,until they get caught and cry victim
@@neilfletcher4951 While it was never exactly a good looking centre it was at least clean and as you said a thriving place. Sainsbury's. Co-op.Quick Save. Wool shop. Shoe menders. Hair dressers. Butchers. Very busy cafe. Woolies. Dick shepherds. Jones's. Launderette. Barbers. Started to go downhill once Sainsbury's left which caused a knock-on effect.
@porcelain_doll2321 we have it way better than so many people in the world. If you wish to improve your situation then please don't let youtube stop you
Why would they build such horrifyingly ugly buildings for the masses. It really does feel like the upper elite British class was trying to separate the poor and needy from them.
I lived in coventry living my childhood in woodend and henley green living on Winston avenue such a lovely area in the late 70s early 80s nows cov is a dump it's so dirty, no one has any pride anymore
The decline in Bell Green has been severe. My nan lived there and I loved visiting as a kid. Riley Square was a vibrant shopping place full of friendly locals. There's definitely been "white flight" over the years. I eventually moved in with my nan as a late teen until my early 20s before she died. Bell Green just got worse and worse, and the crime is getting worse all the time. And now, they're turning off the streetlighting after midnight. It is becoming like the Streets of Rage.
Born and raised in Willenhall, alot of good people. Unfortunately our Labour Council have neglected the city, we used to have neighbourhood wardens, they dealt with alot of fly tipping and anti social behaviour , also got involved with schools with after school clubs, they decided to knock this scheme on the head due to central government cuts. My husband was one of the wardens, he loved the job, so very rewarding. I hope the Council see this video. Thanks for making this
Genuinely sad to see the fate and state of my old hometown. But, it is the Detroit of the UK and similarly to Detroit has befallen the same fate. Very surprised to see you didnt go to my old council estate Stoke Aldermoor ("the aldermoor") just to the north of willenhall. Very much like the chatsworth estate in "Shameless" or these days just like Somalia 😉
That are doesn’t show up on the crime and poverty stats I was using. Possibly too small an area and is included in a larger ward. There were a bunch of smaller areas , mostly neighbouring the ones I went to, that were struggling though. I drove through a couple.
@@ukexplored yes it will be listed as stoke most likely lower stoke rather than upper stoke depressingly predictable language. Great video though, you're very brave!
Stoke Aldermoor was the area used for Onslow's house (Michell Close) in Keeping Up appearances - they needed a run down slum area to portray the poverty he lived in, and Stoke Aldermoor has always had a bad reputation. (Hyacinth's house was at Heather Road, Binley Woods Coventry by the way) I was born in Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry and lived there for my childhood, fortunately my parents could afford to live in Stivichall, so I was not exposed to the rougher areas of the city, but over the last 20 years Coventry has got really bad. 14 years or Tory austerity, benefit cuts and rising poverty have not helped.
@@stevejones1972 I lived on the estate very very near to where they filmed onslows house ! It was great the film crew were pretty good to us kids. The director was a stuck up bell end as was Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth) which is a shame because I liked her as hetty wainthrop. Geoffrey Hughes (onslow) was great and really down to earth gave us all signed promo photos. He was a good boy.
All i can say is about the moor is thank fuck they havnt paved over all the green down bye the Sowe, can still remember visiting my Great Grandparents when they lived in The Lindfield flats across the road, always fun driving by now after a good bit of rain to see the flooding.
These areas that are shown in this video. Where all once thriving communties some years back. No boarded up shops & litter everywhere either. Such a shame about their decline it really is. And there some great people in them who help serve their local community, as well. They're not all bad.
If you were more intelligent than a fart you would know that the state of the U.K. has nothing to do with ethnic diversity; since 2010 successive Tory governments have destroyed and under funded public services.
I grew up in Henley Green and I'd say even despite how bad it looks in this video, it's in a better state than it was in the late 90s, especially Manor Farm.
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I dated a girl who lived on Manor Farm Estate. We used to go to the Shire Horse pub (now gone).
I lived in Foleshill between 2007 and 2017, everyone knew each other in that area, from hanging in the local parks, and they were all good lads focused on footy and school, from 2018 onwards they started to transition in to becoming dealers and killers, and I don't know what flipped that switch in the neighbourhood but it hit them just before 18 when the rest of us started university. The lads that went down the crime route were not intellectually challenged either, one of them was in the 2nd year of an engineering diploma and applying to universities when I left Coventry but he later got 3 years for being caught with a brick of coke in 2021! I hope the fact I left Coventry didn't contribute to them going down the wrong path because this is truly heart breaking!
Hi I love watchering your videos they are brilliant in one of your videos you was in my home town West Bromwich there is good and bad in West Bromwich keep up the good work from Marie 😊
9:59 my old road mentioned!!! I moved out of chepstow close like a year ago. Tbh, im actually surprised to hear of someone being shot and killed. Im assuming it was something that spilled out from the estate just up on st james lane as i dont remember it ever being a particularly bad street
The worst of Coventry? Are there any nice neighborhoods? Dude, I live in Pittsburgh U.S., which has a reputation of being the worst industrial city in this country of 320 Million. The reality is, this is one of the most spectacular cities in the world.
I made a couple of joke comments on your Leicester video, but on a more serious note straight off the bat, “it’s not the place that’s the problem, it’s the people in it!” I see this problem almost everywhere I go. What’s the point in trying to improve an area when most of its human inhabitants couldn’t care less anyway?
I am 72 all these areas use to be fine, so sad to see , it needs demolishing , there is nothing for the kids to do, things need to change, there is a lot of decent people who have to live in these areas, its not by choice.
