England’s ‘worst place to live’ is ‘dump’ full of beggars & casinos – parents send kids to school in a different COUNTY

FED-up locals from a portion precocious dubbed the worst spot to unrecorded successful England person labelled it a "dump" afloat of beggars and casinos.

And it's truthful atrocious parents nonstop their kids to schoolhouse successful different county.

Residents of Rushmoor, Hampshire, kick of eight-hour ambulance hold times and kids lining the streets to beg.

It comes arsenic the country plunged to the precise bottommost of a caller survey ranking the liveability of each section authorization successful Britain.

Analysis by The Sunday Times weighed factors similar crime rates, lodging prices, Ofsted reports and GP waiting times to find the spots successful which Brits are astir and slightest blessed to live.

At fig 291, Rushmoor was considered the worst of the clump successful England - and those surviving determination look to agree.

Though not a municipality oregon city, Rushmoor is simply a territory that covers 2 neighbouring towns - Aldershot and Farnborough - and it is tally by Rushmoor Borough Council.

'Aldershot is simply a dump'

Sian Lewis, who works arsenic an head successful Aldershot, told The Sun: "For idiosyncratic that works here, Aldershot is simply a dump.

"Do you cognize what, due to the fact that I unrecorded immoderate wherever beauteous nice, it truly makes maine spot that determination are truthful galore casinos.

"They're putting successful things that origin poverty."

In Aldershot municipality centre, cause users tin beryllium seen loitering astir a telephone container and pacing on the precocious street.

Five betting shops tin beryllium recovered wrong 200 metres of each other, portion a bargain store successful the centre has been demolished, leaving an eyesore spread successful the enactment of shops.

And 1 woman, having a speech with a person connected the precocious street, tin beryllium overheard chatting astir her caller instrumentality from jail.

Taking successful her surroundings, Sian Lewis told however she has encountered immoderate nasty experiences successful the country - including being followed by "really unusual people".

"I've had to unreal I was looking determination else, looking to spell successful a shop, and I don't cognize what they're going to do," the 47-year-old said.

"I conscionable deliberation helium was precocious oregon something."

The mum-of-one has besides seen children begging connected the streets and said matters get worse extracurricular of word time.

"In the holidays we get kids coming successful from I don't cognize wherever begging," she said.

"I don't cognize if they're portion of a pack oregon if it's conscionable section kids trying their luck to get immoderate escaped money."

A 2024 study by the assembly recovered Rushmoor to beryllium of the highest deprived districts successful Hampshire.

It besides recovered the area's transgression complaint to beryllium higher than the county's mean per 1,000 population.

Ambulance took 8 hours

Student caregiver Anna-Marie Mcadoo utilized to enactment arsenic a discharge co-ordinator successful the NHS and she's lived successful Aldershot since she was 12 years old.

She said she won't fto her 15-year-old girl spell into municipality excessively overmuch due to the fact that of "drunks" and the "overall environment".

And she has sent her girl to a schoolhouse successful Surrey due to the fact that of the atrocious estimation of schools successful their section area.

"It does person that consciousness of feeling similar a deprived area, definitely," the 51-year-old said.

This doesn't spell for each of Rushmore, though. The Times information pointed retired that a precocious proportionality of schools successful the wider country are rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.

Anna-Marie added: "I accidental successful presumption of health, successful my sense, my girl has been waiting for an autism appraisal and it could instrumentality inactive different 2 years truthful I would accidental successful presumption of gathering people's wellness needs they could amended definitely.

"People not being capable to get GP appointments look to look is bad. I don't cognize wherefore due to the fact that Covid's agelong gone."

NHS waiting times were ranked among the worst successful England by The Sunday Times - coming successful 276th position.

Satisfaction with GPs - measured by the fig of radical who rated their GP 'good' successful the country - was besides low, successful 250th place.

Miss Mcadoo noted that a batch of radical are successful infirmary beds erstwhile they don't request to beryllium and not capable is being spent connected societal services successful the area.

And she said: "They would conscionable extremity up stuck successful a furniture for months and it's disgusting, really."

Another nurse, Onyinyechi Ndukwe, works connected the outskirts of Rushmoor successful New Frimley Park Hospital.

When she erstwhile had to spell to the infirmary arsenic a patient, she said an ambulance she called for arrived 8 hours aft her archetypal call.

"They didn't travel until I got to the hospital," she explained. "After 8 hours. It was urgent due to the fact that I couldn't truly walk.

"They support saying you're breathing, that's ok, you're breathing. So I had to usage a taxi to the hospital."

Miss Ndukwe, who was successful pain, past didn't spot a doc for hours aft arriving astatine hospital.

Poor NHS waiting times

However, Mr Subramanian, who has a six-year-old daughter, is not blessed with the GP waiting database which tin spot him hold betwixt 1 and 3 months to spot a doctor.

"NHS, we person immoderate waiting time," helium said.

"The caller elected representatives promised these issues would beryllium sorted, but let's hold and see."

Others are much optimistic.

Carole Gaines, a civilian servant from Farnham, has lived successful Aldershot for 40 years - and she likes surviving successful Rushmoor.

She said: "I similar surviving successful Aldershot. It's 40 minutes from Gatwick and 40 minutes from Heathrow. It's adjacent to the coast."

She besides hasn't experienced issues with the NHS successful the area.

The 65-year-old said: "Yes, the municipality has been tally down certainly, but there's tons to do."

Others are much optimistic

The mum-of-two raised her 2 grown-up children successful Aldershot.

Julie Duffield, 64, besides doesn't person a occupation with Aldershot.

On proceeding the news astir Rushmoor's caller presumption arsenic the worst spot to unrecorded successful the UK, she said: "That's a shame, isn't it?

"There's ever country for betterment isn't it, everywhere."

The retired caregiver thinks Aldershot is "alright" and "you conscionable get utilized to wherever you live, really".

Mrs Duffield added: "There could beryllium worse places… seemingly not."

Responding to NHS hold times successful the area, a spokesperson for NHS Frimley, said: “NHS Frimley takes its work for ensuring timely entree to attraction highly earnestly for each residents who unrecorded wrong our boundaries.

"For our colonisation successful Rushmoor, 91% of residents person a GP assignment wrong 14 days. Average waiting times for elective country for Rushmoor residents are immoderate of the lowest successful our geography and section ambulance effect times are consistently amongst the champion nationally.

"We bash recognize that not each residents person the entree to attraction which they expect and erstwhile circumstantial instances are brought to our attention, we enactment with NHS partners to code these concerns.”

A spokesperson for the South East Coast Ambulance Service, added that it works hard to respond to each patients "as rapidly arsenic imaginable portion prioritising our effect to our astir earnestly sick and injured patients".

"While we recognise determination is much to beryllium done to amended effect times overall, we are pleased that successful our region, including Rushmoor, we are consistently up of the nationalist mean for effect times and for Category 2 calls, wherever the bulk of our calls fall, we are presently the highest performing ambulance work nationally."