UK island’s ‘ghost city’ has hazard spots the place residents ‘would not go for £1m’

A “ghost town” on an island within the UK reportedly has no-go zones the place residents say they would not enterprise for £1million.

Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent has been named one of many prime 20 most harmful cities in England.

The port city has households scared to ship their youngsters to highschool. With crimes together with theft, drug use and fly-tipping apparently commonplace, locals informed MailOnline Sheerness seems like “the town that time forgot”.

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The city has a inhabitants of 21,139 and a staggering charge of crime compared to its neighbours, with a whopping 181 crimes per 1,000 in contrast to the common of 88 throughout the remainder of Kent.

Margaret Jackson, 67, who lives in Sheerness, informed MailOnline: “It is a hellhole island. There’s parts of here I would not be paid a million pounds to visit. It is terrible.

“It’s obtained a lot worse in the previous couple of years. There is a whole lot of violence and anti-social behaviour. The youths run riot. They management a number of the estates and folks will not go close to them.

“The high street is a ghost town and like the town that time forgot.”

This time final 12 months we reported city had been granted a £20m authorities payout, however with retailers and companies nonetheless boarded up, it looks as if the advantages are nonetheless to be felt.

Meanwhile, a neighborhood shopkeeper bemoaned the dearth of points of interest within the city, saying that regardless of the city’s “beautiful scenery” there is not sufficient for individuals to do or entice vacationers to the realm. One dissatisfied holidaymaker wrote on TripAdvisor: “The town of Sheerness is a run down dump and if you want to do anything during the day you have to drive miles to any attraction.”

Inspector Vanessa Foster from Swale’s Neighbourhood Task Force has spoken about how they’ve tried to reply to calls from native residents, saying that their work has seen 229 fewer crimes within the Sheerness Ward throughout 2023 and, whereas these statistics are “encouraging”, she burdened they will not be “complacent”.

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