Welcome to Crack Alley: Desperate locals call high street a ‘no-go zone’ with ‘more tents than Glastonbury’ as homeless drug addicts leave them terrified

It was once the world’s wool capital and the richest England outside London.

Now, some parts of Bradford have become the latest inactive area of ​​Britain-Dispensable fuel chaos and violence, and the businesses are afraid of walking on the streets, and businesses are going to the wall.

Fed-up traders and shoppers say that the areas of the city center, which once worked, are excessively run by coarse sleeping in the tents that use the streets as personal drugs and toilets.

One of the worst stroke points is Rawson Square, where heroin and crack cocaine are openly smoking and exploding every day.

The staff in a tattoo shop named The Crow & Cartidge, said that aggressive behavior, public vomiting and drug use in a wide -day light outside the doors.

The 32 -year -old manager Philippa Leach said: ‘We see that they drink drugs that inject them. Drink, fight, urine – you put the name, we saw.

“ There are often called ambulances because they love no matter what.

A woman sits on a sleeping bag on the sidewalk in an area nicknamed Crack Alley by the locals.

A man seems to be negotiating with a woman at a door in the Rawson Square of Bradford

A homeless person sleeps at a door with only two blankets for comfort in Rawson Square.

“ There is up to 20 or 30 at a time, they only do what they want and apparently with very little results.

‘We have quite young female staff and they don’t want to go out on their own.

“ Really scary and daytime. When you get to work, it is when you quit.

‘It hurts our trade because people don’t just want to walk here because they don’t feel safe’.

Jasmin Stevens, the trainee tattooist, added: ‘I am usually the second person here in the morning and I hate waiting outside.

‘You are accused by Crackheads, and that’s really scary.’

When Mailonline visited the square this week, symptoms of drug addiction were everywhere.

Apart from an old Wilko store, the two men gathered at a fire about drugs, who were very little worried about who was watching.

Another man watched the addicts as they lined up for their next corrections.

Recently, a used crack pipe was open between high -strength lager and the garbage boxes of the vomiting pool on the sidewalk.

And a woman can be seen when paying for the pound mercenary pills while children walk.

Two men drink lager in the sun in Rawson Square, where local workers moaning about anti-social behavior

While a friend rounds a cigarette in Rawson Square, two women pass each other through a tinphoil -coated pipe

A group of people who stuck and smoke in Bradford’s Crack Alley

A woman who looks drunk in her sleep without being unaware of her surroundings

The two men ride a horse and the natives are trapped from Rawson Place, which the locals describe it as a ‘departure zone’

Local Jamie Telford (in the picture) said that drug addicts were allowed to do what they want ‘and that they did not help them or the community’

21 -year -old Subhan Abnan, who runs the barber hairology, said Bradford Council’s efforts to move to rude sleeping.

He said: ‘Council takes tents and takes it, but the next morning there are five or six more.

“ They returned again in the evening. It’s full of tents – like Glastonbury but without fun.

“ 30, 40 will gather here. Community center. People avoid the region. They see and they just continue to walk.

‘We screamed to one of them, “I will burn the shops.” Why should we hear this? We’re just trying to do a job.

‘It affects our business. People are afraid to come here. Actually, we cleaned the garbage ourselves, but the next day worse. It makes you feel meaningless.

“ You don’t even feel safe to leave the shop in the evening. We are literally inside the word because we don’t want to get caught up with something.

‘We introduce our business on social media, but new customers always ask: “What’s going on outside? Who are?” How do you explain this? “

“ 24 or 25 -year -old young girls, you see that they sit on the benches surrounded by boys, doing all kinds of all kinds. Who wants to see this? Especially when bringing children here. ‘

A man holding a pipe while talking in front of two men in Rawson Square sits on the floor

A man with a bandage leg pushes a zimmer frame to a group of young people who hold pipes and exchange money.

Location can be Loiters at a shop door by pushing a baby in a stroller.

Tattoo artists Luke Nylor and Jasmin Stevens, who work in Rawlins Square. Jasmin said that drug addicts could be ‘really scary’.

The locals say that chaos is worse by a new city center renovation, which is sleeping and pushing them to the northern part of the city center.

A highly swimed jacket, who reminded Bradford’s status of England as the 2025 cultural city, said: ‘Twenty years ago, it was beautiful here. Look now.

‘City City? Shocking. ‘

Sheryn Leech, a beggar, told her 36 -year -old Sheryn Leech when she refused to add extra food to her order in the city chip shop, and a drug -added man returned to violence.

He said: ‘He ordered a comb, but then he asked me to give him the chips for free.

When I said “ No, he burned my wrist and threw me. They were hot pipes with oil. It was six weeks ago and still healing.

“ I was threatened with a knife, so that cracks can get free food. I came home with bruises. There was a salt tub thrown into my eyes. I have all kinds of and I’m tired of it. ‘

Really disgusting. Businesses are dying. Nobody comes here anymore.

“ I’m just coming to this part of the city because I have a job. It has just become a full of inactive zone. ‘

One man makes a strange gesture with his hand as another man recovered on a pipe

Left: A man urinates behind a garbage box and on the right, a syringe thrown by addicts

Marilyn Atkinson (in the picture) said that drug addicts walk in the region ‘like zombies’

Sheryn’s mother -in -law Marilyn Atkinson, 52, added: ‘I feel very worried when Sheryn comes home from work. I’m panicked until I know it’s safe.

‘To come to the town scary. You are afraid to rob. ‘

Look at me – I keep my bracelets because there are only addicts walking like zombies.

I can’t run if someone tries to remove my bracelet.

I grew up in Bradford. I remember being safe. Now, I’m afraid that my children will come to the city. ‘

Jamie Telford pointed out a two -year ‘pocket park’ built with a lottery financing opposite the Northgate Bistro coffee shop.

He said: ‘While redeveloping, all medicines and drinkers had to continue.

“ They returned as soon as they were done. Now everyone has a nice place for Loiter at the expense.

“ There is a camera that goes directly to the police, but no one seems to do anything.

Don’t get me wrong, the homeless needs help. Everyone needs help, but while they are here, they are allowed to do what they want.

‘This does not help anyone and certainly not to them.’

Western Yorkshire police, ‘Bradford city center is determined to make a safe and lively place to live and work’ he said.

Chief Inspector Nick Haigh insisted: ‘The crime will be appropriately handled.’

Bradford Council spokesman, 1624, 16 people were reviewed because it caused ‘serious trouble’, he said.

This led to interventions such as acceptable behavioral contracts and recent warnings.

Seven of the most serious criminals received criminal orders from the courts.

A Council spokesman added: ‘While supporting individuals to make positive changes, we are working hard to deal with anti-social behaviors in cooperation with police, partners and stakeholders to address problems.

‘These challenges are common for big cities and Bradford is no different about it.

‘We are aware of the problems in Rawson Square and visit the site every day to advance the case files against ASB perpetrators and to provide relevant support.’