Residents have spoke of their anger at living on a 'Walking Dead-style' estate where mountains of dumped rubbish has led to an invasion of rats 'the size of cats'.
Locals living in the Soho area of Birmingham say shameless fly-tippers and drug-addled 'zombie' addicts have turned their neighbourhood into a no-go zone.
Sofas, beds and even discarded toilets are just some of the items abandoned along the patch of grass on Boulton Road where children used to enjoy playing football.
Homeowners claim a group of tenants moving house created the initial mess around four years ago - but now the spot has become a regular dumping zone.
They say prostitutes and drug users also flock to the site to take substances and dump their own rubbish, with needles and gas canisters regularly found.
Locals living in the Soho area of Birmingham say shameless fly-tippers and drug-addled 'zombie' addicts have turned their neighbourhood into a no-go zone.
Sofas, beds and even discarded toilets are just some of the items abandoned along the patch of grass on Boulton Road where children used to enjoy playing football.
Homeowners claim a group of tenants moving house created the initial mess around four years ago - but now the spot has become a regular dumping zone.
They say prostitutes and drug users also flock to the site to take substances and dump their own rubbish, with needles and gas canisters regularly found.
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00:00I'm the owner of Ria's Beach Hot Plunge. This plot of land is right next door to my shop
00:07and it's been building over the past 5-6 years since it's been sold off to a private owner.
00:14Prior to that it was maintained, well maintained. You know we used to have children playing football on it.
00:20You know people would walk their dogs on it. And now lately it's just become a common dumping ground for everyone.
00:27We've got everything from the kitchen sink, to toilets, to bathrooms, to bedrooms.
00:32You know, everything you can find in there. All the junk's here.
00:36People come along, throw everything out. And for me, being right on my doorstep,
00:42I've got rats running around and I'm losing business because women are walking in and they think it's our mess.
00:49After speaking to various newspapers, councillors, local councillors,
00:55they did put up CCTV cameras on one of the lampposts here to try and get shots of people who are fly-tipping.
01:03But I don't know how successful that is.
01:08We run a business here for over 30 years, buying uniforms.
01:13This area, it's just gone, it's ruined. I mean drugs, rats, people throwing rubbish.
01:20Council are not doing nothing. Police just drive past, ignore it. What are we supposed to do?
01:25The council, I've written emails to them. Lord Mayor, contacted Lord Mayor, nothing happens.
01:33We'd like this to go back to what it was. Nice, well-tamed, well-maintained, clean.
01:40And I don't know how it's going to happen.
01:42Or whoever owns it, at least board it up, or at least do something to it and get rid of this mess.