{"id":86572,"date":"2023-10-11T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=86572"},"modified":"2023-10-11T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:41:59","slug":"inside-britains-ghost-housing-estates-from-eyesore-seafront-apartments-to-abandoned-newbuild-streets-war-zone-flats-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/inside-britains-ghost-housing-estates-from-eyesore-seafront-apartments-to-abandoned-newbuild-streets-war-zone-flats-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Britain's 'ghost' housing estates from eyesore seafront apartments to abandoned newbuild streets & war zone flats | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
BRITAIN is covered in "ghost" housing estates filled with eyesores from seafront apartments to abandoned newbuild streets and war zone flats. <\/p>\n
Eerie sites in all parts of the country from Kent to Leicester and as far north as Sunderland are being taken over by fly-tippers and drugs abusers after plans were forgotten about. <\/p>\n
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In most cases, estates have been abandoned when construction companies go bust and the work can no longer be carried out.<\/p>\n
And now plots, some of which have fully built homes, are lifeless with no one ever having moved in.<\/p>\n
That was until they became home to thugs who love to vandal buildings, drug abusers, louts and in some cases animals.<\/p>\n
Here are a few ghost towns in the UK:<\/p>\n
The crumbling \u00a320m housing estate in The Sands,\u00a0Kent, has become a home for animals after plans for 59 houses and 26 apartments were approved in 2016 before quickly being forgotten about.<\/p>\n Contractors abandoned the 85 homes in Dymchurch Road after a national shortage of plasterboard delayed the launch.<\/p>\n Neighbours\u00a0said works continued on the site but came to a halt in early 2022 – with building materials hanging around the plot.<\/p>\n Compass Builders Ltd then fell into administration earlier this year and the development was left in ruins ever since.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Bob\u00a0Thomson, who lives a few doors down from the estate, said the building used to have security guards to avoid intruders.<\/p>\n And residents are now begging the council to demolish the\u00a0building.<\/p>\n John Underwood, who lives in nearby Jefferstone Lane, said: "It's a disgrace – I've only lived here for a year, but it has been like that the whole time I've been here.<\/p>\n \u201cIt needs to be knocked down for something for the community.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have not been updated or told anything, so we have all just been going off rumours."<\/p>\n Locals living near to Hospital Close in the East Mids have been forced to face piles of rubbish and drug dealers using it as a meeting point ever since old tenants were kicked out in 2019.<\/p>\n The plot has been abandoned and neglected since.<\/p>\n What was once a bustling area for hospital workers and their families has since been ditched after Leicester's NHS trust could no longer afford to maintain or upgrade the properties. <\/p>\n Eviction notices were then issued before the estate became a hotspot for antisocial behaviour. <\/p>\n Ashley Lewis, 32, who lives nearby, said: "It's quite spooky to be honest, it's a complete ghost town now. <\/p>\n "It used to be a thriving little community of NHS staff and their families."<\/p>\n Homeowners near Gildas Avenue, in Birmingham, say the street has become a hub for crimes.<\/p>\n Vandals graffiti houses that are no longer lived in as well as smashing in their windows.<\/p>\n Overgrown gardens make it hard to see properties with others having silver metal boards across any possible entrance. <\/p>\n Resident Kathleen Witheridge previously told\u00a0The Birmingham Mail: "It looks really horrible. <\/p>\n "It's like a war zone with all of the rubbish and graffiti everywhere. I don't feel comfortable here."<\/p>\n Neighbour Michelle Mulhall added: "I think it's disgusting how the council have left residents. <\/p>\n "It's bad down here. The buildings have just been boarded up and left. Nobody wants to come down here."<\/p>\n<\/picture>UP IN FLAMES <\/span><\/p>\n
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