The "most burgled street in britain"
thing is/was an urban myth associated to Chestnut Avenue. It was all a load of bollocks made up for a documentary in the early 90's and regurgitated by the Daily Fail in 2001/2002.

To be fair Leeds was pretty shitty at the time when I was at uni there.

They had several riots, pubs were burnt down and there was a full on drug war.

It's quite civilized nowadays though.
( shitkicker, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:22, 1 reply)

chestnut avenue
I lived on that street for a year and was never robbed. 2 years later I was robbed in Woodhouse but that's a given.

CA is actually an awesome street to live on. The robbing though - it's not so much an urban myth - the problem was that the street is synominous with street parties therefore it's pretty easy to plan a robbing spree. It was cleared up a few years ago by Leeds Met volunteers who now assume credit for the street being less of a crime zone.

The moral of this, obviously, is that cleaning up graffitti scares off robbers.
(ignoramusaurus, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:25, closed)

Oh it got robbed
it just wasn't the "most robbed street in britain".

I had a friend who was shot in woodhouse for being a student. Happy days.
( shitkicker, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:26, closed)

I'm not sure
tried to find out - was never proved or dissproved that I remember. A lot of people get shat up by the occasional murder in Leeds but I came here from Lewisham so I can walk through the park at night without shitting myself.
(ignoramusaurus, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:14, closed)