Inside eerie, rat-infested estate dubbed UK’s ‘most depressing place’ after being ravaged by arson yobs as young as TEN WITH boarded-up houses, overflowing litter attracting rats, and piles of burnt-out fires, this notorious estate seems well worthy of the title of ‘the most depressing place to live in the UK’.
Penrhys was opened in 1968, as a modern council house development, and at the time, with 951 houses and flats, it was the biggest public sector estate in Wales.
But despite its outwardly scruffy appearance, the people who live in one of the poorest estates in Wales are fiercely protective of their estate.
"A lot of the rubbish you see dumped is fly tipped by outsiders who think Penrhys don’t care, and dump stuff in the middle of the night, but we get the blame for it.
“I have a shed inside at the front of the house, which has no ceiling, and the council refuse to give us proper bins, so there’s rubbish everywhere on the estate which never gets cleaned up.
