I Explored the 5 WORST AREAS to Live in COVENTRY! 😲
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- In this video, I’m going to show you what I saw and experienced inside 5 of the most deprived, dangerous - and ultimately worst areas to live in the city of Coventry.
Welcome to UK Explored, in this video I’m going to show you what I saw and experienced inside 5 of the most deprived, dangerous - and ultimately worst areas to live in the city of Coventry.
I decided on the areas for a combination of local knowledge, published police and crime stats, deprivation reports from the council, and census data.
I went to Bell Green, Hillfields, Henley Green, Willenhall, and Foleshill.
What I found was pretty shocking to be honest, Coventry doesn't have the worst reputation, but these areas or among the worst in the country.
I hope you enjoyed the video, if you have any suggestions for other cities I should explore in a similar fashion please leave a comment below, thanks!
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00:00 - Intro to 5 Worst Areas to Live in Coventry
00:13 - Bell Green
03:19 - Hillfields
05:50 - Henley Green
08:20 - Willenhall
10:43 - Foleshill
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Thanks for watching!
If possible please do a video in my hometown (Stoke-on-Trent)
Where are you from ??
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
Lmfao this dude from hartlepool and he talking about coventry lol
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".
You missed wood End and Stoke Aldermoor.
I grew up in Willenhall . The Aldermoor was always a doss Hole . But way worse now . Rubbish and Shite everywhere
Poor old England will never be the same.
From my perspective, this country is getting exactly what it deserves.
@@EgoChip😂
@@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 🤡
@@EgoChipWhich perspective is that exactly?
@@jamesrobert4106 Mine. As in not yours, not someone else's. Is that a foreign concept to you? Are you of the hive mind?
Props to this man for walking through all that disgusting litter and drug crap
Do we all get props for having to walk around this shit hole?
@@Lisafer15 if you do then yeah sure
@@WithCars909 gee thanks! Now I'll never have to be bitter about having no choice but to move back here to the shitty of everyone else's culture!
@@Lisafer15 you're very welcome 🙃
woodend next door to bell green was horrific in the 80s looked like Belfast with burnt out cars and peple sat in house with no windows nor doors..
They should combine the areas and call it “bell end” 😂
the peOple who lived in houses without windows or doors were called squatters mate, so who gives a fug if they had windows or doors, shouldnt have been living there. also, you're a liar because that didnt happen.
What a load of shite... you aint from bell Green or wood end obviously.
I first went to woodwind in 1988 I honestly thought they were demolishing parts of the estate because of the amount of missing windows..then the landlord of the live and let live pub go blown away with a shot gun..savage times
@@docgb5990 wait, WHAT? first of all its woodend not woodwine. secondly, in 88 they WERE pulling down parts of woodend, which is why there were missing windows in houses. thirdly, what landlord got "blown away" in the live? are we talking BS out of our buttholes?
Well done on surviving Coventry, mate.
Another great video 👍
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.
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
Not every Town and city. Have you been to Tunbridge wells?
@@missruzl14 I will be honest no I haven’t but it does look a lovely place
@@theabandonedhunter3604 it's beautiful. I've not seen these types of places around Crowborough or Tunbridge wells. 😁we are so lucky
@@missruzl14 Crowborough also looks beautiful from what I’ve just seen
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....
Thank you very much for this video. I lived in Stratford -Upon-Avon and I used to visit Coventry a lot, it's very sad to see it this way.
Glad you enjoyed it! It’s sad to see a lot of areas looking like this, especially those that were once flourishing.
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.
Well stop looting the third world. @apathyintheuk265
@@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.
Discovered your channel not long ago and it’s nice to see new stuff posted. Keep up the great work!
I grew up in Henley Green in the 90's and have fond memories of going to Woolworths in Bell Green. It did have it's rough spots at the time but nothing like what is being show in the footage, I remember playing with friends in some of those green areas in Broad Park that are now covered in litter. Moved up north in the early 2000's and glad we never went back.
Yeah Bell Green looks desperate now. I just about remember when Sainsbury's was there, it later became Kwik Save next door to Woollies
Nice to see you back! 🙂🙏
Thanks, man! Going to try and get out and about more often!
@@ukexplored That's nice!
Nice to see you posting after so long hope your doing well!😊
Grew up in Bell Green still go back regularly, love the place and the people ❤❤❤
They should just merge Bell Green and Wood End as one district, and rename it Bell End.
@@jimmyj8161 if you loved the place & the people you wouldn't have left!
I moved away from Cov 10 years ago to Devon, grew up in Woodend/Bell Green, still have family and friends who live there, is a shame to see.
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
Cheers for covering Coventry mate place has turned into a complete ghetto public needs to know that cities like this need serious improvement
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.
I grew up in a small town about half way between Coventry & Leicester. When I was a teenager in the 1960s & 70s, we often went to Leicester but never went to Coventry - it wasn't safe. I worked in housing in the 1980s and Bell Green was no better then.
Definitely bias in the comment you made, Leicester definitely has problems and deprived areas. I live in Coventry and been to Leiceister several times I'd only argue Leicester does have higher paying jobs but it many of the problems that Coventry has. Go to St Matthews, Braunstone, Westcotes. That being said many towns and cities are decling in the UK
@@greengemaudio4830 The average wage in Coventry is higher than in Leicester
I take it you support Leicester? Good job you never came to Coventry.
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
E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N.
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 best bit of Coventry is the A45 to Birmingham- and I say that as someone who doesn't like Brum.
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You mean m69 north bound
@@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
@@Nzwarriord Good move. UK cities are just rat holes now. Rural areas are still nice.
Been living in cov for 10+ years and can agree it’s been a shit time
You need to discover the world, pal - I can assure you there's a lot more shit going on.
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.
The council should have a copy of this to see how well they are doing..
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 .
@@songscoops4205 Your 'team' is clearly way too small.
im still trying to get of the coventry ring road!! which psycho designed that!
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I grew a five o clock shadow on it once mate.
@@hvacrwrld1402 😆
Mate why didnt u go wood end that area rough
Lived in those flats in Riley square,got mugged going home from work in hillfields ,Coventry is a filthy sewer.
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.
Why the hell are there so many super deprived areas of the UK ?
It's crazy, isn't it 😱
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.
Everywhere is kind of much the same rundown or soon to be rundown block of houses in the uk.
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.
great vid keep them coming
I thought woodend would of been in the top 5, one of the roughest estates in Britain back in the 80s,must be seing better days today
Still as bad even though they pumped millions into 'revamping' the estate.
Wasn't brave enough to go there 😅
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 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.
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 The ignorance in me?
My god, you'd be crowned queen of the world for it!
You are utterly clueless.
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.
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
i used to work in walsgrave as you come into coventry the sign states "city of peace"..
City in pieces
And?
Hilfields used to be far worse.
All that litter though, never seen anything like that in person.
Come to Northampton. 😆
Birmingham litter is next level fridges sofas etc all dumped in road or on pavements
Birmingham is definitely worse. Well, certain areas anyway
Why do deprived people have children…
Because you can fuck for free . It's one of the few things the poor can afford .
We live and die in these towns ...PUSB .
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
Tile hill is horrible mate especially around jardine crescent surprised he didn’t go there
Tile Hill? 😂😂
Tile hill!!! your having giraffe mate. I'm very surprised it's wasn't mentioned as there is a very high crime rate usually violent
@@ryandunn5499 That is why I actually put Tile Hill in - to see the responses I will get LOL so I was having a bubble bath mate
@@brothersman524 🤣🤣
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
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 😊
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 .
What about Canley ?
Great post, thank you. Brings a new thought on the term "Sent to Coventry" doesn't it. Probably demolish it and build 3-5 Star hotels to house more immigrants?
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!
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.
Thanks, man. I’ll check it on Street Maps and look up some stats. I’ll get to Preston at some point this year if it’s of interest.
@@ukexplored I will look forward to your video if you decide to come here :)
...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!!
The best thing I ever did was move out of Willenhall. First thing I noticed after I moved was that I could hear birds chirping. In Willenhall, I never did and I was there 8 years. Constant noise from people shouting, dogs barking, music thumping and engines revving. The atmosphere as you walk around, its depressive, like there's no hope or dreams and everyone's miserable and looks it. It sounds dramatic but you filter stuff out and you get hardened to it after you've lived there a while, everythings sh*t but that's just life and the way it is. Then one day you move out and realise just how bad it's been and wonder why you ever stayed that long. So if you live there, do yourself and your family a favour, and move to a nicer part of the city!
Ditto,spot on ,lived in those flats in Riley square,came to visit my sister in Lincoln and decided that's it and only went back to pack up ,best move I ever made ,true it's only when you leave that you realise what a terrible slum it is filth everywhere,dumping ground for illegals ,always someone looking for a fight,I now live on outskirts of Lincoln clean safe ,cycle lanes ,lots of parks,different world mate.👍
Born an bred in Willenhall an would never move, there's obviously scumbags there but a lot of OK ppl you obviously didn't fit in.
I lived in Hillfields for 2 years in late 90’s. Not the best years of my life
Lived in wood end, and hillfrields , they used to be good but know not so good.
Zooms in on the Coventry city flag as if it’s a bad thing?
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
Very good video the litter is shameful maybe the local MP could organise a weekly litter pick they do one here where i am not far from Coventry
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.
I lived in Coventry for 3 years in the 90s. All of the places you mentioned were rat holes then and they are rat holes now. Unfortunately this is the story across just about every city in the UK.
brilliant
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
You are brave going to Cov. 😆
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
like St Louis Missouri was very poorest deprivation and even more poverty strickens compared to Coventry 😢😢
it's the same all over the UK
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 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.
Riley Square never used to look that bad woah.
Bell Green has been like that for 40 years
this is what diversity brings
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.
And where is Woodend ?🤔🤔
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
@@brianhannon3253 yeah.
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?
Bell Green used to be a place people wanted to live when the shops were there in the 60s it was buzzing now it's a sad place
@@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.
"Hillfields - Diverse" 😂😂😂 Yeah - diverse in varying shades of brown.
Coventry is engulfed in a cloud of weed smoke. It sucks walking around everywhere
Used to do a milk round in foleshill all around them high rises, and your right it has a high Asian population, for some reason too they always used to have full fat milk…just thought I’d put that out there to see if anyone knows why…oh and during my time as a milkman covering most of the West Midlands foleshill was the only place where I had milk nicked off the back of my van, they were white lads (if anyone is wondering)
Possibly to make kulfi, zype of dessert 😊
Ugh, dumb phone
Full fat milk is milk the flavour the protein the calcium is in the fat why would anyone drink use anything else I put milkmon my cereal not piss water
Still more aesthetically pleasing than a Barrett Homes new build housing estate.
The 1950s city planners didn't foresee drug culture taking over the public housing hoods they would be building for the next 20 years.
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.
Totally agree with this
The rules first social housing tenants are as clear as can be. Sadly, the rules are never applied. It's almost like they want it to be like this🤔
Or cultural enrichment
@@ladylaois8184so your just going to ignore the predominantly whyte demographic as stated 🙄
I actually own a small part of the litter strewn ground you show in your documentary. Every effort I make to clean it up (to date:) is carefully undone by people who can't clearly communicate in my language. (as soon as I leave) who are without exception, my neighbours" If they can't even speak to me, and have made it clear that they see my activities (and presumably me) as unwanted, is it me who's the racist?
The police are unintersted in co-operating with me in amy meaningful way, the council appear overwhelmed, and that "multiculturalism" just means that I am surrounded by several enclaves of semi-protected people whilst I have no rights or support in my effort to clean up my bit, whatsoever. Finally after three years of me absorbing aggravation and interference (and endless fly tipping) a person spoke to me the other day coherenlty and sensibly, but only to ask me to cut down a tree and suggest that I sell my bit of ground and move on. (he wasn;t making an offer, just wants me gone)
I was born here, but this isn't my country anymore, if it ever was. My early life traiinng turned out to be completeley unsuited to the way the country has "progressed" during my life. This isn't how it could be, at one point Britain, (and England in particular) "raised the world up" by developing the industrial revolution, ad wrkabel laws etc.. We showed other people how to live! People looked to us for leadership. Some still do, even after the massive decline I've witnessed in "English culture".
In practice, the lack of "Englishness" around me genrally, these days, just means that I can't leave ANY TOOLS on my ground, without first being able to build a secure building(!). I need to be delievered and collected with my tools, so as not to expose the car to the area any longer then we have to, so it's really difficult to do anything constructive, and have it stay done, so as I can move forwards..I guess anyone else who has aspirations to make inprovents in these areas, faces the same problems. even if I collect and sort the litter though, there are still charges and obstacles to getting it processes by the local waste facilities, which I always thought was a BIG PART of why we pay our taxes, to have litter and sewage processed in central locations rather than ad-hoc as our council seems to prefer.
Something needs to be done!!
You forgot RADFORD!!
Is it bad?
i used to live in radford it litteraly wasnt that bad barely any crimes so its fairly safe
I went to Coventry college which is right next door to hillfields. Armed Police inspections were a regular occurrence
And, so, what are Coventry councils doing about it?
It’s been a while!
I Grew up in bell green...Not like it used to be...
1993, this Government change everything, Jobs just went for Good, Now Government is not Bothered at all
Live in coventry its a absolute hole
Henley Green was a bad area 40 years ago. When I studied in Birmingham, this was one area you didn't venture into in the silent hours. WIllenhall by contrast was actually an OK, fairly Des. Res. area back in those days. Famous for the lock-smithing industry, and home to many famous lock brands.
I think you're confusing Willenhall Staffordshire with Willenhall SE Coventry.
Wow.
And I thought Bell Green was bad back in 2002/03!!
4:55 RIP little brother 😔
Haha I’ve seen a few of your kind on my travels. 😢
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.
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Asians fly tip. It's their culture. We import it, we get it. That simple
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 .
You got more Caucasian unemployed bin dippers in Coventry,then Asians.
Im from foleshill and i can tell you its not asians. We are the minority here its romanians who are doing ALL of it.
Looks like it's India but no ones willing to recycle anything or work
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.
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riley square,recently appeared in this town!
6:12 😂 they have the British flag up as if they are proud to live in this dump.
All these videos on UK cities are nowhere near as rough as most cities in the USA. In the US to step out at night without a gun in your handbag or pocket is very dangerous. Also windows must be iron barred also doors. In the UK you are just playing at being rough.
Ooo ur ard😂😂😂
Many places in so called 3rd world look much better than this
Such a shame to see what has happened to Cov. Don’t get me wrong it was never paradise but I now don’t recognise the 3rd world sh*thole it’s become… Blair was the architect of the slow death of the U.K. 😔
Was Blair a bad prime minister?
Are these solar panels? 7:10
In all honesty, Hillfields, compared to how it was many years ago, has changed a lot...
Thomas King house was a block of flats to avoid if you were white
I would have put Prior Deram in Canley on the list personally.. but as an old tile hill lad I'm gonna say that
Wood End back in the day when the Live & Let Live was still there was brutal
will you be doing birmingham any time soon?
Meow birmingham crew
Did you know birmingham and Coventry put together it will be the worst