St PAUL'S Cheltenham Drive-Thru: HIGH CRIME and Deprivation
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In this video, we’re going to take you for a tour around the notorious St Paul’s area in Cheltenham.
That’s a lovely mutual there, and as you’ll see in this video, street art is prominent in this part of Cheltenham.
Now, I want to say off the top that Cheltenham is a lovely area for the most part.
But a note in this report from Gloucestershire County Council sums it up perfectly, Cheltenham has the largest contrast in deprivation within Gloucestershire.
This means, Cheltenham is home to both very affluent and very deprived areas, but it’s the deprived crime-ridden areas that don’t the press and support they need; which is why we’re doing this video.
As we drive around, you’ll notice that St Paul’s looks relatively tidy compared to some of the other areas we’ve covered on the channel, and most of the houses are fairly uniform in appearance.
But it’s what lies beneath that we’re interested in, and as always, the crime stats paint a clearer picture.
St Paul’s is the third most dangerous suburb in Cheltenham with anywhere between 60 and 100 reported crimes per month, which is nothing to be proud of as it’s a small area with around just 5 thousand residents.
Interestingly St Paul’s is the bike theft capital of Cheltenham, so you don’t want to leave your bike unattended while you pop into the shops.
Some of the news headlines to come out of St Pauls are pretty terrifying and cover everything from murder to terrorism; such as this arrest for suspicion of terrorist plots, stabbings and murders, drug raids, and so on.
It’s the depravity report that really hits home as to how badly St Paul’s is suffering.
St Paul’s has the second most deprived areas in Cheltenham, and it’s in the bottom 10% for the whole country.
It’s hard to believe that while walking or driving around most of the area, but these stats are a harsh reminder that many of the residents don’t have the basic things most of us take for granted and that’s something I’d like to see addressed.
As you can see from the footage, the way most of St Paul’s is designed is a network of tight roads with terraced houses and very little space to move around.
No one really likes living in close proximity to other people, and I’m sure there is a correlation between the number of people living in a square mile and the number of issues.
St Paul’s is really close to the town center and the The Brewery Quarter, too, which is where a lot of Cheltenham’s nightlife is, so I’m sure there are a lot of students living here.
The problem with it being so close to the town center and looking pretty decent on the surface is that if you don’t know Cheltenham well and you take one wrong turn on a drunken night out, you could end up in some trouble.
We were driving around in the morning, and as we’ve found with most crime-heavy neighborhoods, there’s not a lot going on in the mornings - it’s when nightfall comes that most of the action takes place.
It’s surprising how dense of a residential suburb St Paul’s is, there is little more than a few shops and a small park, and nothing much else to do.
It’s a proper concrete jungle and we started to feel a little claustrophobic driving around and kept getting a feeling of de ja vous.
I thought I’d end with a nice drivers’-view of one of the roads here, thanks for watching, as always please take a moment to press the like button and subscribe to the channel, if you made it this far into the video you must have been entertained at least a little bit. Cheers.
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My grandparents lived in St. Paul’s all their lives. It is nothing like as bad as you portray it. Most of the housing was built during the Victorian period to house the working classes.😊
St Paul's isn't too bad. It's mainly students and immigrants. I lived there as a student and never had any issues.
Ive lived in Cheltenham st pauls/hesters way area and it can get bad but if you keep to yourself you wont find much trouble usually
Yeah, I mean, compared to some of the UK’s worst areas, St Paul’s feels like a nice day out 😅
Concrete jungle? Unless I’m mistaken most of them houses look like they are made of brick.
Compared to Birmingham, Coventry, Kidderminster, Stroud, or even Gloucester, Cheltenham feels more like a sedate little village! It is a very odd place to live though as it's essentially two completely different towns fused together. The northern portion, where St.Paul's is situated, is more deprived but it's also where most of the key services are, as well as the University of Gloucestershire's Hardwick and Francis Close Hall campuses, two of the area's largest employers by a considerable margin. If you go to the city centre, or anywhere south, it suddenly feels like you've randomly wondered into the area around Regent's Park in Central London. This is made even weirded when you discover that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is located just on the western edge of town.
Yep. South and East Cheltenham is much better off than North and West.
The area looks ok compared to most cities, just goes to show you can't judge a book by it's cover
There's a rougher bit around the corner that's not in the video. I would think that's got more crime than the bits featured here. Plus this area is right by the town centre, so I expect a fair bit of the trouble is overspill of drunks from there rather than residents.
The parks massive . Where u getting ur info !
Actually looks like a nice area, the crime stats are surprising.
I thought we covered St Pauls, but we missed a section, you’re right, that area didn’t come up in the police report we had.
Thanks, really appreciate the info!
B/S......St Pauls is OK.....A real community.Why so negative ...Folk help each other many students keep it vibrant...You misrepresent the area.Its an upcoming area ...Stop your B/S.......
Cheltenham is like London, with the affluent West and deprived East. Only swap them around and smush them together in a couple mile radius. You're either poor or loaded in Cheltenham. You can almost draw a line through the town, like a Berlin Wall of economics. Pretty crazy, but that's the UK now.
It was always like that. Hesters Way and St Paul’s look much better now than they did in the nineties.
I like St Paul's, despite its crowding and the major problem I see with it: too much traffic. To say 'there's no shops' is a bit misleading when, as you've said, Cheltenham High Street is only a short distance away - it's literally a ten minute walk from the town centre, even less if you just want to go to a supermarket. And 'a small park' - do you mean Pittville Park, which defines the northern edge of St Paul's and continues across Evesham Road? It isn't so small.
Is this irony
In some ways, it could be, depends what angle you’re coming from 😂
You could start a sister channel with the same visits but after dark on a Saturday.
But perhaps do it in a armoured car.
Yeah, I know right. 😂
Colonel Roge...B/S...High Spirits are not a crime!!!
You drove past my house 😅 (rented mind you) in 7 years leaving here we've never had any crime or anti social behaviour issues though you can see it around, I think the deprived stats might be slightly off just because a large amount of St pauls is student housing, the average house price in the area is £200,000. So you've gotta be on a pretty penny to own a home here in the first place.
I'm from kidderminster originally and I'd be interested to see a video with stats for the Horsefair there, or the rifle range
That's cool! Cheltenham as a whole (or individual areas) are nowhere near the worst of the UK, which is why I thought it was interseting to show some of the areas that are struggling as they're often forgotten or not known about.
It's hard to say exactly why it's struggling - Kidderminster has decent stats, you're good at picking places to live 😀
A to the latest data from Gloucestershire Constabulary, the crime rate in St Paul's, Cheltenham is relatively low. In November 2022, there were 77 crimes reported in the area, which is a crime rate of 8.1% per 1,000 people. This is lower than the overall crime rate for Cheltenham, which was 11.3% in November 2022.
The most common types of crime in St Paul's are theft and criminal damage. In November 2022, there were 35 thefts and 22 incidents of criminal damage reported in the area. The most common types of theft were bicycle theft and shoplifting. The most common type of criminal damage was criminal damage to a vehicle.
The crime rate in St Paul's is relatively low and has been stable in recent years.
aRE YOU GOING TO EXPAND YOUR FINDINGS OUT TO OTHER PARTS OF THE uk? I'm sure many viewers will recommend their home towns and cities.
Yeah, we’re enjoying visiting different locations. We’ve been to a few places now and have loads more on the list.
I would like you to do videos on Worthing, Oxford, Eastbourne and Hastings. So l can avoid any mistakes. I'm still shocked of how nasty Swindon looked and it's so close to Bath via train.
Yeah OK, we will look into those areas and see if there are places of interest. Swindon has gone downhill fast in recent years!
Don't listen to this goober. He doesn't have a fucking clue.
Reminds me of parts of plymouth. Student flats/houses very similar
One final point (I promise). This area is very close to the town centre, which will have a relatively large amount of crime because it gets a lot of tanked up visitors. I notice that Lansdown and Montpellier, which are very affluent, have a lot of crime, presumably because of proximity to the town centre. Is it possible that some of the crime in St Paul's is overspill town centre beer and fights?
Have you ever thought of working for the Tourist Board? 😅
I'd do well at sending tourists to a different location than the one I work for. 😂
I think to thrive in this sort of neighbourhood you'd want to have lots of friends in the area, to be on good terms with your neighbours. Also safer if you don't have a car, but rely on public transport or walking.
You definitely want to get along with your neighbours in high crime areas or you’ll find yourself in a living hell 😂
Wouldn't think neighbours would be any problem. I agree about not having a car. Cheltenham has lots of jobs and social stuff you could walk or cycle to. Lots of younger people now actually prefer that. It's very different in eg lots of South Wales, where a household needs at least one car just to get to work.
@UK explored...Why such negativity...You are just passing through...Obviously Negativity is a Click Bait...Promote Positivity!!! Negate Negativity!!!!.
I thought there would be more horse theft than bicycle theft in Cheltenham? :D
what a load of rubbish, you just showed streets with nice terraced houses. too frightened to go down Manser Street?
Actually quite nice for a bad area. Houses are decent
You only visited the posh part of St Pauls in Cheltenham lol.......
Doesn’t look as bad as some other places, at least the housing stock is possible to gentrify.
Yeah, and I think a lot of that’s already happening. Cheltenham has lots of jobs fairly central so you wouldn’t particularly need a car. That makes gentrification easier.
I feel so claustrophobic watching you drive through UK streets, I don't know how you do it mate. This place reminded me of "The Wire" SE Baltimore area
Again you are talking a load of bullocks mate
You don't show the poor area nearby, round the swimming pool. Is that in the St Paul's district?
Yeah I think I dropped the ball on that one. I researched it pretty hard and asked some locals but they didn’t point me to that area.
@@ukexplored I might be wrong, but I think it's in Wyman's Brook district. The old terraced houses in St Paul's actually look pretty good now. I wonder if they're attractive to a more affluent demographic than before, who value being able to walk into town and to work?
It didn't show on my Apple Map boundary, but apparently it is in St Pauls? Every map and app seems to have different boundary lines, it's super annoying!
The whole town is a shithole now. I watched it get worse over the 15 years I lived there. I moved away earlier this year. It’s the best thing I ever did.
The whole town?!
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It’s a shame how these areas get run down they should send all the criminals to Australia like they used to in the olden days the UK is a nice country being run down by criminals and the conservative government
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