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.
