{"id":601318,"date":"2025-11-29T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:00:21","slug":"inside-benefits-street-as-rubbish-piled-high-as-residents-make-one-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601318\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside ‘Benefits Street’ as rubbish piled high as residents make one demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fly-tipping blights James Turner Street in Winson Green<\/p>\n

This is the sight of rubbish piled along Birmingham’s notorious ‘Benefits Street’.<\/p>\n

Fly-tipped settees stacked with black bin bags, household and garden waste has been dumped on James Turner Street<\/a> in Winson Green.<\/p>\n

Councillor Chaman Lal said the problem had been going on for “years” and the trash returns “as fast as you would pick it up.”<\/p>\n

Read More: Birmingham traffic live as motorists urged to avoid city centre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

John Cotton, the head of the council, said they had issued 259 Fixed Penalty Notices issued in nine months and urged people to report fly-tipping.<\/p>\n

Coun Lal said: “It looks like this every week, it comes back as fast as the council can pick it up.<\/p>\n

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“I think it is the dodgy removal companies who charge people to pick their rubbish up and they leave it there.<\/p>\n

“People have been complaining about it for years. We need a deterrent like cameras.”<\/p>\n

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The residents of James Turner Street featured in a contentious documentary which aired a decade ago, featuring characters such as White Dee<\/a>, Black Dee and Fungi.<\/p>\n

It chronicled the lives of those on benefits, with reports suggesting that 90 per cent of residents were welfare recipients.<\/p>\n

Majid Mahmood, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, said previously: “Fly-tipping harms where we all have to live and work and is carried out by environmental criminals that have no regard for our neighbourhoods or their well-being.<\/p>\n

“When fly-tipping occurs, we act as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

“Our crews clear hundreds of fly-tipping reports each week. This is in addition to the work our neighbourhood crews undertake to clean up across the city.<\/p>\n

“Everyone needs to play their part in maintaining a clean environment.<\/p>\n

“We have plenty of lawful options for people to responsibly dispose of waste or unwanted items.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping blights James Turner Street in Winson Green This is the sight of rubbish piled along Birmingham’s notorious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[188622,855,748,393,4884,13844,16,15,12246],"class_list":{"0":"post-601318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-benefits-street","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-handsworth-and-soho","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-winson-green"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115633116764648315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}