Inside ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ dubbed ‘one of many worst excessive streets in Britain’

The radioactive landscapes of Fallout look homely in comparison to the “apocalyptic wasteland” high street found in the UK.

Waterlooville, Hampshire, was named after the famous battle which left 61,000 British troops dead at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte’s military might. But it seems the war torn horrors managed to make their way over to the UK town.

Empty storefronts saw the town named a “ghost town” and later descriptions called it a “zombie apocalypse town”. The high street has become a graffiti-covered area where a few straggling stores remain open.

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Exploring the “apocalyptic” town, JoeFish featured the almost desolate area as closed stores lined the streets in his channel on YouTube. Only a barbers, phone store and kebab shop remained on one corner.

Further exploration saw “shop after shop after shop closed”. He said: “We are literally seeing the death of the British high street before our eyes.” Some stores were left in a “state of total disrepair”.

Waterlooville, which houses roughly 64,000 people, is the largest town in the South Hampshire borough but its high street is on the brink of closure.

Some stores were seen covered in scaffolding and “rotting away” on their inside with sparse decorations within and little else in the area. Even its shopping centre has laid “unused” for a number of years.

The video, which has been viewed over 30,000 times in two days attracted over 600 comments.

One commenter on JoeFish’s video wrote: “I live in Waterlooville and although it’s not great, that Wellington way shopping centre was earmarked for demolition hence why it’s empty. They planned for flats to be built by the planning was turned down. The owners are now spending millions restoring the units.”

Others from the area believed “vagrants” were responsible for the “miserable shopping experience” in the area along with “extortionate rent” for those hoping to open up a business.

“Absolutely every unit is shut, boarded up, abandoned,” JoeFish said. “I’ve truly never seen anything like this, ever.” Taking a closer inspection of the abandoned units saw the interior was “literally falling apart” as walls were peeling away.

The state of the place had JoeFish declare it would be “the death of the British high street” should rents remain high and quality of interiors continue to be this low.

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