The city road Albany road area of Cardiff is vibrant, diverse and being all manner of different people together, but there have been complaints in recent years over an increase in anti social behaviour. Litter is a particular issue, but there are also reports of theft, drug dealing and the dangerous use of e-scooters, so we’re speaking to locals to hear what they have to say.
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00:00Well it's very run down and messy compared to what it used to be. There's litter left
00:06out on pavements. All the sorts of things that if it was dark and you were looking carefully
00:11you'd hurt yourself on. I don't think the students have helped but I don't think that's
00:17fair. It's probably the landlords should be taking the rubbish away.
00:20Then yeah I do. There's a lot of shoplifting, there's a lot of drug use around this area
00:27and I see a lot of people just kind of hanging about and looking a bit suspicious, which
00:34is quite unnerving for maybe older people around this area.
00:38Yeah, mostly the kids on the scooters, yeah, with the bandanas on, yeah.
00:45How does that make you feel? Obviously it can be quite an intimidating kind of thing.
00:50Intimidating if you're on your own when it's still, and driving, causing the mayhem, driving,
00:54yeah, yeah, pain in the neck.
00:56Get stolen. The bags keep getting stolen from outside people's houses and stuff. That's
01:01obviously not good. So like, especially for like older people, they don't really know
01:07where to access new ones and stuff. So it's just, it's inconsiderate. It really is.
01:13We used to live in Moy Road so we know the area quite well. It's not as clean as it used
01:19to be all those years ago. I suppose that's really one thing that you would say is disappointing.
01:25A lot more people begging as well, but no antisocial behaviour or issues that I can
01:31see in the short time we've been down here.
01:34No, we don't. It's quite quiet really. Not too bad. There's no pubs round by us now,
01:40so this is not so bad. There's no pubs there, so it's fine.
01:43Yeah, yeah, definitely. There is so much litter, which is so frustrating because like it is
01:49such a nice area visually. Just without the litter, it would probably be a lot nicer,
01:54which is a shame because Cardiff is a lovely city.