![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/our-neighbourhood-is-so-filthy-you-can-see-our-rubbish-piles-on-google-maps/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Our-neighbourhood-is-so-filthy-with-fly-tipping-you-can-see-our-rubbish-on-Google-Maps.jpg&description=Newtown in Birmingham is overlooked by swanky tower blocks costing well into the millions, but this part of the city is being left behind, and residents fear it's "only getting worse" A neighbourhood plagued by flytipping is so filthy that rubbish piles are visible on Google Maps. Overlooked by towering multi-million pound skyscrapers being built is Newtown. This forgotten part of Birmingham, particularly the shopping centre, feels worlds apart from the city centre - and residents fear things will only get worse. 'It's [rubbish] round 'ere, bruv,' one young lad said, while a woman doing her shopping simply said: 'It's OK. We've lived here a long time and nothing has changed - things are just getting worse.' It seems everything is closing down - the swimming baths and community centre, as well as The Drum arts centre shut for good. Mum of three Lucy Hayward, with her six-month-old daughter on her back, moved to the area in 2015. She shares a two-bedroom house with her three kids - six months, three and five - and husband. 'It just feels like we've been so forgotten,' she told Birmingham Live, of life living here in Newtown, walking with a mobility cane, as she is blind, through heaps of rubbish. 'We're so near the centre of town and, yet, if you look around it's dire. You just look at this. There's a lot of families squeezed into two-bed houses. 'It's the rubbish [mainly], especially here on Alma Street. I've even been bitten on my leg from something due to the rubbish. I obviously couldn't see what it was but I was just walking and something attacked my leg. "What else can I tell you… there's no community centre for kids and nothing [for children] in the local area. The swimming baths have been closed for years now and we have to go to Ladywood. 'You just look at all of these areas that are boarded up and I just think they could be used to provide kids with somewhere to go. There's all these spaces that could be used for stuff.' Newtown remains one of Birmingham's c){kind=link}
Newtown in Birmingham is overlooked by swanky tower blocks costing well into the millions, but this part of the city is being left behind, and residents fear it’s “only getting worse”
A neighbourhood plagued by flytipping is so filthy that rubbish piles are visible on Google Maps.
Overlooked by towering multi-million pound skyscrapers being built is Newtown. This forgotten part of Birmingham, particularly the shopping centre, feels worlds apart from the city centre – and residents fear things will only get worse.
“It’s [rubbish] round âere, bruv,” one young lad said, while a woman doing her shopping simply said: “It’s OK. We’ve lived here a long time and nothing has changed – things are just getting worse.”
It seems everything is closing down – the swimming baths and community centre, as well as The Drum arts centre shut for good.