‘But the safety of the area it’s not, I’m not happy with it… I’ve been thinking to move away from it the last couple of years to be honest. But now because I’ve got children…well really, really I need to…Mainly there’s a lot of drug dealers, gun fire, just like this, outside my window. Somebody’s been killed. The other day I could see them fighting with the guns… And sometimes you come and you will find people on the stairs with the needles and there’s blood on the floor. They will be sick, they will be pooing if they want to.’ (Female, 26, stay at home mother) ‘They were bullying my daughter. We used to walk down the road and the neighbours were, like, all friends and they had parking issues. We’d like to park in front of our house but people got there first and they were just arguing. We had the police… One of the neighbours wrote a letter saying my daughter is going to die. We phoned the police and they did nothing…The council asked the police if the neighbours were a threat and the police said: no. We wanted to move and everything because it wasn’t very nice’ (Female, 46, off work due to sickness and disability) ‘To be honest the cleanliness of the place is because we live [unclear] local take always, it causes a really really big problem. The council cleans twice a week…. We did have a big problem with a mouse, a rat, and a few shops have been shut down as well, close to us.’ (Female, 26, stay at home mother) ‘I’m fed up. Every day I have to go out there and pick lager cans up, cigarette packets, they’ll be thrown over into my garden. I don’t even go up there; I daren’t think what’s thrown off there. And [the council] say we can’t help’ (Female, 65, unemployed) ‘No, to be honest because there’s nothing here the children could… even the park, we’ve got a little park in here behind the church and it’s empty. We don’t have swings, we don’t have slides. When the children are bored in the house and they fight most of the time the kids fight because of TV. I try to take them out because fresh air and play. But there’s nothing for them to play in our areas.’ (Female, 34, stay at home mother)