Life on 'street from hell' with parking wars, fights, urinating and garden sex
Fed-up residents living on a 'road from hell' say they are forced to put up with nightmare parking, fights, and garden romps.
When nearby clubs close their doors, the trouble continues on Gooch Street with revellers urinating and ditching their used condoms and tissues in gardens for homeowners to find the following morning.
The disruption lasts until 3am every weekend when locals struggle to find a car parking space or get blocked in by visitors' cars on the road in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Loud speeding cars and violence are further issues, with brawls erupting on young families' doorsteps along the street, reports Birmingham Live.
"They park the whole car on the pavements. They just say 'we can park anywhere'," one resident said.
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"There's plenty of litter – every day we find food, cups and drinks. They have those gas canisters too."
Residents, including young families, say they're fed up with a string of issues on their street (BirminghamLive)As 3am comes, locals can still hear the last of the revellers "still high" from drugs taken in cars.
The mum added: "Trying to get the kids to sleep, it's really loud. Sometimes we will tell them 'please keep the noise down'. They will move and come back again.
"We don't really say anything to them. Before, a neighbour told them to keep the noise down and they assaulted her. She was in her 50s, they had no respect to her, she got scared and she moved."
Further down the row of houses, social worker MJ has the same complaints about the area where he has lived all his life.
"Everything happens in Gooch Street," the 56-year-old said while sitting on the sofa to go through a string of problems.
"It's an absolute nightmare. It's turned my life upside down," he added.
Litter is also a big issue on the street (BirminghamLive)"I'm finding some of the time I'm having to leave my car at work because I'm finding when I come home, there's nowhere to park.
"If I do find somewhere to park, they are likely to park behind me or in such a way, I can't get out.
"Some park across the actual pavement and I have seen people in wheelchairs and prams have to go around into the road."
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MJ said he is surprised people get away with their terrible parking but says "they known they can do anything they want."
He added: "You hear them outside arguing, you can see them row. I will be in my bedroom trying to sleep and hear the music blasting.
"I can see them doing their drugs. They wind down their window and leave the paraphernalia outside the car," he claims.
Another resident said drug taking and violence was happening right outside their doors (BirminghamLive)Amid the revving and loud music, MJ said he's grown used to showing up at work tired but he has also considered going to extreme lengths to escape the nightmare by moving.
"At my age, it's just uprooting. Where can you go that you can guarantee that you won't have a different set of issues?" he asked.
Often, his neighbours across the road find condoms and tissues in their gardens from young men and young girls, MJ claims.
He fears the newly done park, designed for children to use, will too be used for sex and drugs.
A taxi driver, aged in his late 30s, said the situation has slightly improved over the past few years but that many locals still have "bad experiences" living in the area.
The cabbie said he has installed CCTV on his property as a precaution amid the anti-social behaviour, after a driver hit the back of his cab some weeks ago.
"This area has been messy now with drugs. There's many fights. If you go down there, there's many people doing drugs...cannabis...everything," he said.
Another resident told how drug taking and violence was happening right outside their doors.
She said: "Every Friday and Saturday night cars are parked all over and it becomes like the outside of a club at kicking out time from around 10pm until 2am or 3am in the morning, sometimes later.
"We get cars racing up and down the road, people blasting music in the grove from their cars, food and litter thrown from cars, drug taking and violence right outside our doors.
"The houses we live in are so close, many have small children and families."
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