The council have wasted millions building ridiculous looking buildings instead of restoring the beautiful original buildings they already have...look at the train station...it needs to be torn down and the old beautiful restored station used again...stop the parking fees and stop building malls which are half empty and the high street shops are not being utilised...more green areas...the biggest problem is the place is a rubbish tip...
The port grew on coal and iron when the docks was developed and Newport became rich. As the steelworks and iron works closed and the coal mines were closed the reason for Newport's growth and industrial existence ceased to exist. I was born there and when I lost my "Job for life" in Llanwern Steelworks I moved away to find work as did most of my friends.
Lived in Newport for 43 years and have watched as it has slowly but surely deteriorated. I believe that its a combination of mis-managed finances, poor management, poor decision making, rent is too high for retailers and the council has increased council tax to compensate. All the big shops and big names have gone to Spytty! Closed and empty shops, homeless people camping in every empty shop front and 'mish mash' shops at the end selling odds and sods and if you are fortunate enough, you might even be offered 'gear'. Friars Walk is slowly becoming abandoned and the list of shops listed on the wall in two foot high letters have almost all gone! EMPTY SHOPS DON'T PAY RENT!!! LOWER THE RATES TO INCREASE TRADE! Logic! Cwmbran is a much better alternative to Newport for shopping, leisure and parks.
Sadly Cwmbran is well on its way to becoming another Newport already , town centre is just duplicates of the same shops selling the same things , whoever owns it has run it into the ground every improvement they have made they didn’t consult anyone and it turned out shit ! They’ve ruined Gwent square
This is a lie most of the videos are not from newport many people on the streets are not from newport they come here knowing volunteers and the generous people of newport will not turn anyone away we all donate foods to the people that come far and wide from wales and England we also rehouse them they know newportians are generous people and will go without to take care of them no matter who yuo are or were you come from
Many of the areas you described as being deprived were built to service the people who came to work in the docks and steel industries. Those have largely disappeared and the decent wages( comparatively) have gone and not bee replaced and the knock on effect has been huge.
Some of your footage IS NOT Newport very misleading,.it’s house prices are high a high number coming from Bristol, it’s no worse than most other city’s it’s not a town since 2002.The internet shopping is mainly the reason most city centres are closing.
Is it really one of the poorest places to live in the UK, there is a lot of poverty all over Great Britain, it can’t be that bad as our neighbours across the bridge are moving here from Bristol.
As someone who grew up in both Newport, Bristol and Caerphilly - aside from the house prices (I'm going now on my experience from the 80s and 90s), I feel relatively safe walking through all of the neighborhoods in Newport. Obviously don't walk around the docks like Mr T whilst waving the newest iPhone, but as much as Newport can be scruffy, I tend to find minding my own business there gets me no real trouble. Southmead especially I wouldn't ever visit again (albeit it's not precisely a commercial destination, so little reason to travel there without links to the local community), along with a few other similar areas. I genuinely felt unsafe there in the late 80s
@@nickdibble4271I recently visited Newport in summer 2022 ,I was walking alone there days & nights & never felt unsafe !! I am a Japanese woman who has been living in the States for 36 years .I feel so much safer in U.K.over all & totally safe in Newport, although I avoided Pil area,etc as been advised. People were so nice & helpful ,too ! 💜🥁🐉🎤🏴🎶💕💞
I left Newport 51 yrs ago,i emigrated to Australia.I come back regularly to see family.I must say it makes me very sad to see that Newport has deteriorated so much.Building houses is ok but you must have infrastructure to go with it.I was in Newport 12 yrs ago and in a shop at John Frost Square they had a model to say this is what Newport will look like in 20 yrs time.I laughed and said it had not changed since I left so it will never change.I was right.Sorry but Newport is a dump!
@@lynettemahoney1710 how lovely Lynette. I went to Canada as a child, I lived in Ontario, Kitchener-Waterloo Toronto is a big city isn't it? Living on a lake must be nice I just moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland from Western Australia In the past 30 years here, I went back to Newport twice, it was unchanged for me All my school friends were still there 🙂
I left in 75 for South Africa. I have been back a few times and witnessed the deterioration. It is now a dump, the town centre gutted by the labour council.
@@desthomas8970 My wife and I are going back on September to see family.what we do now though is to go somewhere else for a month,then to Newport for a week and get home quick.
The fact (according to recent Census 2021) is that Newport has it's population risen by 9.5% which stands for 24 000 of new inhabitants in a decade which is Wales total record! - so this is firdt misstatement in that video which appears straight on beggining. Later on we can see at least 3 shots from Cardiff. And according to last ONS stats Newport can not even make competiton with places like Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil or Rhyl with level of depravation/ So, despite i don't really live in Newport (but far away in S.West Wales) and do not really like this City tbh I have admit that your footage unfortunately is a load of nonsense
When you arrive at Newport look at the condition of the Civic Centre. Most decision makers are housed here so the condition of the building represents their mindset .(It's never been different) Go to Cardiff and see the difference that progressive politicians can make. Newport has always been run by the same 'old boys and now a few old girls.'
I live in Newport this video is now old and not reflective of the city. There are areas that are not great but house prices avg around 230000-240000 and rents even amongst terrace houses upwards of a £1000 pm. Remember we are between Bristol and Catdiff and people come here for cheaper prices
Pictures are decades out of date in some cases. The City has seen a lot of improvements recently. All City/Town centres are taking a hit due to online shopping. Like most places there are good and bad areas, where I live the average house price is £500,000, it’s a lovely street.
I went there recently and it was so grim. Just needs sprucing up and reinvigoration of culture and new cultures added, I think. It was awful, really bad
I am not born in Newport, I arrived in here in May of 2017 first time in the UK, honestly I seen worse like way worse in my country Romania, but I have to agree that in recent years I saw the city degrading more and more, council tax is ridiculous shops in friars walk that used to be decent are gone, and now it's full of junkies in the city center, full of tents and drunk homeless. Plus they cut down the hours on the street lights you need a lantern to travel on some streets it's like a scene from a horror film in some places, I was thinking to move from Newport to be honest doesn't feel safe anymore rents to high for what it is honestly.
well your first premise is bollocks. when the bridge tolls were abolished newport was the fastest place to sell property due to an influx from the west of england. but there is no doubt about the city continuing to slide. it has been run by a labour council for 50 years apart from a single 5 year tory /libdem coalition. it has 2 labour mp's. if we were a football team we would have sacked the management a long time ago. but this is a democracy, it allows people to vote over & over the same way expecting somthing to change next time..........what can you do???????
Newport has always been an industrial town with the steelworks and the docks ect. Most of the industries have closed. Having lived in Newport all my life I have witnessed the demise of the town over the years. I've been to a lot of worse towns and cities tbh. Newport needs a lot of investment to improve it. Sadly I cannot see that happening anytime soon.
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The planning department should be sacked..what could have been a quaint thriving harbourside town full of restored characteristic historical buildings is nothing but a drab concrete jungle full of ugly futuristic type buildings which are ugly, empty shops and dont get me started on the tin shed that is the train station that was planned without any thought for passengers..
Preston Isn’t poor. The hinterland is very wealthy. All cities have deprived bits. Preston has a burgeoning tech economy and highly paid aerospace jobs. The North West is like London, huge extremes but there are opportunities.
The three biggest problems in Newport were the Fouweather brothers and Sheppard. No not a folk-rock band. Thankfully Alderman Fouweather has finally been got rid of and the other one shown up in Court for what he is. Sheppard having been kicked out of Cardiff lingers on for now though.
He is obviously not a local and actually did very well especially with Bettws. I expect you say Bettis. Worry about the state of Newport not the pronunciation of someone trying to do a good job. You are part of the problem. Do something rather than complain about someone highlighting the problems.
All they done is call the police on me 160 times all more . They definitely getting there money worth on the police . I think it's a pecking order 💯🏴
Rubbish newport is not a poor city more and more people are moving to newport from England hence why more and more houses are being built to accommodate them
I emigrated to the ☀ not long after brexit. A hunch. Before I went I visited a few places I either holidayed in Wales (as I loved Tenby etc and the cities), as a child and adult. Worked there too. Newport was last on my list. This was about early 2017. I couldn't believe the dirty place it had become. Burger King was full of our colonial friends. That street onward to the police station looked like an area "somewhere else" An elderly gent saw my face.... "Yes there's a big asylum centre here; and a big narcotics problem nowadays". Me? I was glad to get on the train and leave
Welsh Government block the building M4 relief Road which would give better infrastructure and inward investment/jobs. They also run Education and NHS Wales- both worse than in England. Locally the Newport City centre has drastically declined. Despite this, the Labour Party is always elected, so I assume the majority are happy with what we have. Obviously having Welsh road signs and Council correspondence softens the blow!
I worked in Llanwern Steel Works 50 years ago with many people who left Port Talbot to work in Llanwern because they thought it had a brighter future with its pipe works. Port Talbot is still there and Llanwern has gone.
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The council have wasted millions building ridiculous looking buildings instead of restoring the beautiful original buildings they already have...look at the train station...it needs to be torn down and the old beautiful restored station used again...stop the parking fees and stop building malls which are half empty and the high street shops are not being utilised...more green areas...the biggest problem is the place is a rubbish tip...
Some of the footage is outdated like #south wales argus office now doesn't exist and replaced with a Lidl...
The port grew on coal and iron when the docks was developed and Newport became rich. As the steelworks and iron works closed and the coal mines were closed the reason for Newport's growth and industrial existence ceased to exist. I was born there and when I lost my "Job for life" in Llanwern Steelworks I moved away to find work as did most of my friends.
Did Llanwern shut then?
Sounds alot like Detroit..
Best for the future mark cardiff
@@jetplane10 Llanwern is still there but much smaller
Lived in Newport for 43 years and have watched as it has slowly but surely deteriorated. I believe that its a combination of mis-managed finances, poor management, poor decision making, rent is too high for retailers and the council has increased council tax to compensate. All the big shops and big names have gone to Spytty!
Closed and empty shops, homeless people camping in every empty shop front and 'mish mash' shops at the end selling odds and sods and if you are fortunate enough, you might even be offered 'gear'. Friars Walk is slowly becoming abandoned and the list of shops listed on the wall in two foot high letters have almost all gone! EMPTY SHOPS DON'T PAY RENT!!! LOWER THE RATES TO INCREASE TRADE! Logic!
Cwmbran is a much better alternative to Newport for shopping, leisure and parks.
agreed, cwmbran is a huge upgrade to newport
Sadly Cwmbran is well on its way to becoming another Newport already , town centre is just duplicates of the same shops selling the same things , whoever owns it has run it into the ground every improvement they have made they didn’t consult anyone and it turned out shit ! They’ve ruined Gwent square
Newport is what happens when interconnected industries coal/steel/port all withdraw at the same time and no industry comes back to replace them.
This is a lie most of the videos are not from newport many people on the streets are not from newport they come here knowing volunteers and the generous people of newport will not turn anyone away we all donate foods to the people that come far and wide from wales and England we also rehouse them they know newportians are generous people and will go without to take care of them no matter who yuo are or were you come from
Anyone remember the moving clock in the square? Loved that as a child, heard it’s been moved to a roundabout? 😂
and it doesnt work anymore.
5:12 that's Newport in Pembrokeshire not Newport in Gwent.
Many of the areas you described as being deprived were built to service the people who came to work in the docks and steel industries. Those have largely disappeared and the decent wages( comparatively) have gone and not bee replaced and the knock on effect has been huge.
Some of your footage IS NOT Newport very misleading,.it’s house prices are high a high number coming from Bristol, it’s no worse than most other city’s it’s not a town since 2002.The internet shopping is mainly the reason most city centres are closing.
Is it really one of the poorest places to live in the UK, there is a lot of poverty all over Great Britain, it can’t be that bad as our neighbours across the bridge are moving here from Bristol.
As someone who grew up in both Newport, Bristol and Caerphilly - aside from the house prices (I'm going now on my experience from the 80s and 90s), I feel relatively safe walking through all of the neighborhoods in Newport. Obviously don't walk around the docks like Mr T whilst waving the newest iPhone, but as much as Newport can be scruffy, I tend to find minding my own business there gets me no real trouble. Southmead especially I wouldn't ever visit again (albeit it's not precisely a commercial destination, so little reason to travel there without links to the local community), along with a few other similar areas. I genuinely felt unsafe there in the late 80s
@@nickdibble4271I recently visited Newport in summer 2022 ,I was walking alone there days & nights & never felt unsafe !! I am a Japanese woman who has been living in the States for 36 years .I feel so much safer in U.K.over all & totally safe in Newport, although I avoided Pil area,etc as been advised. People were so nice & helpful ,too ! 💜🥁🐉🎤🏴🎶💕💞
Newport itself is not as bad as parts of Birmingham and Bristol I have been to recently, was shocking.
Really
@@jetplane10no
@@Ducky1033 no what?
Bristol always was an agro spot... black& white cafe 😄
@@jetplane10 bristol is much better than newport
What an utter load of rubbish, I must be poor, own my house , drive a Mercedes and a BMW and lived and worked here for 66 years
I left Newport 51 yrs ago,i emigrated to Australia.I come back regularly to see family.I must say it makes me very sad to see that Newport has deteriorated so much.Building houses is ok but you must have infrastructure to go with it.I was in Newport 12 yrs ago and in a shop at John Frost Square they had a model to say this is what Newport will look like in 20 yrs time.I laughed and said it had not changed since I left so it will never change.I was right.Sorry but Newport is a dump!
I left for Australia in 1992
@@jetplane10 I’m in a little place called Toronto on Lake Macquarie
@@lynettemahoney1710 how lovely Lynette. I went to Canada as a child, I lived in Ontario, Kitchener-Waterloo
Toronto is a big city isn't it? Living on a lake must be nice
I just moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland from Western Australia
In the past 30 years here, I went back to Newport twice, it was unchanged for me
All my school friends were still there 🙂
I left in 75 for South Africa. I have been back a few times and witnessed the deterioration. It is now a dump, the town centre gutted by the labour council.
@@desthomas8970 My wife and I are going back on September to see family.what we do now though is to go somewhere else for a month,then to Newport for a week and get home quick.
Everyone in Gwent is poor these days lol😅 every shop is horrible i stopped shopping their high street full of rubbish corner shop
Why are you showing pictures of Cardiff Castle
It’s Newport mate
I live in Newport, and am a bit offended. but at least it's informal
The fact (according to recent Census 2021) is that Newport has it's population risen by 9.5% which stands for 24 000 of new inhabitants in a decade which is Wales total record! - so this is firdt misstatement in that video which appears straight on beggining.
Later on we can see at least 3 shots from Cardiff.
And according to last ONS stats Newport can not even make competiton with places like Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil or Rhyl with level of depravation/
So, despite i don't really live in Newport (but far away in S.West Wales) and do not really like this City tbh I have admit that your footage unfortunately is a load of nonsense
Living in Newport 2024 is a joke, the cost of living is horrendous with constant price rises but the average wage doesn't cut it for most.....
Simply repeating publicly available data does not constitute good analysis of the situation. No interviews with people to give their take on Newport.
It is so bad in Newport that people are going to Cwmbran shopping
When you arrive at Newport look at the condition of the Civic Centre. Most decision makers are housed here so the condition of the building represents their mindset .(It's never been different) Go to Cardiff and see the difference that progressive politicians can make. Newport has always been run by the same 'old boys and now a few old girls.'
You have to pay something for having such beautiful people
I live in Newport this video is now old and not reflective of the city. There are areas that are not great but house prices avg around 230000-240000 and rents even amongst terrace houses upwards of a £1000 pm. Remember we are between Bristol and Catdiff and people come here for cheaper prices
Pictures are decades out of date in some cases. The City has seen a lot of improvements recently. All City/Town centres are taking a hit due to online shopping. Like most places there are good and bad areas, where I live the average house price is £500,000, it’s a lovely street.
I went there recently and it was so grim. Just needs sprucing up and reinvigoration of culture and new cultures added, I think. It was awful, really bad
Even the leading councillor's name is 'Mud'....there's just no hope for the 'port
I am not born in Newport, I arrived in here in May of 2017 first time in the UK, honestly I seen worse like way worse in my country Romania, but I have to agree that in recent years I saw the city degrading more and more, council tax is ridiculous shops in friars walk that used to be decent are gone, and now it's full of junkies in the city center, full of tents and drunk homeless. Plus they cut down the hours on the street lights you need a lantern to travel on some streets it's like a scene from a horror film in some places, I was thinking to move from Newport to be honest doesn't feel safe anymore rents to high for what it is honestly.
To contradict your report in the 2021 Census, Newport’s population grew, so it can’t be as bad as you say
yes, grew with crackheads & hobo's!
well your first premise is bollocks. when the bridge tolls were abolished newport was the fastest place to sell property due to an influx from the west of england. but there is no doubt about the city continuing to slide. it has been run by a labour council for 50 years apart from a single 5 year tory /libdem coalition. it has 2 labour mp's. if we were a football team we would have sacked the management a long time ago. but this is a democracy, it allows people to vote over & over the same way expecting somthing to change next time..........what can you do???????
Only because houses are cheaper there because it’s a dump.They probably work in Cardiff so Newports nearer.
Newport has always been an industrial town with the steelworks and the docks ect.
Most of the industries have closed. Having lived in Newport all my life I have witnessed the demise of the town over the years.
I've been to a lot of worse towns and cities tbh.
Newport needs a lot of investment to improve it. Sadly I cannot see that happening anytime soon.
I live here and I kinda know what you mean :/ but atleast sainsburys is still doing good, that is a good thing about Newport :)
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A lot of it may be true.
But the transcript is appalling an difficult to follow with frequent mispelling.
The planning department should be sacked..what could have been a quaint thriving harbourside town full of restored characteristic historical buildings is nothing but a drab concrete jungle full of ugly futuristic type buildings which are ugly, empty shops and dont get me started on the tin shed that is the train station that was planned without any thought for passengers..
I used to work for Newport council and it has been going down and down for years
People look so depressed in Newport!
affordable homes thats a laugh 😂
Hey why u saying that about my city
Give us a review about Preston
Preston Isn’t poor. The hinterland is very wealthy. All cities have deprived bits. Preston has a burgeoning tech economy and highly paid aerospace jobs. The North West is like London, huge extremes but there are opportunities.
@@paulwild3676 equally the west of newport is a very different place to the east (which is mostly what you see on here)
@@edmundwalker1597 Of course. All places have their wealthy bits and poor bits.
I left in 1992, community counts where you are it means nothing in Australia
The council don't do anything for the people of Newport
Maggy thatcher that's what 😢
100%
The three biggest problems in Newport were the Fouweather brothers and Sheppard. No not a folk-rock band. Thankfully Alderman Fouweather has finally been got rid of and the other one shown up in Court for what he is. Sheppard having been kicked out of Cardiff lingers on for now though.
The one thing poorer then the port is this guys pronunciation of Tredegar and Bettws
He is obviously not a local and actually did very well especially with Bettws. I expect you say Bettis. Worry about the state of Newport not the pronunciation of someone trying to do a good job. You are part of the problem. Do something rather than complain about someone highlighting the problems.
@JBTEvans really cool, I think 17,000 men worked there when I was home. God bless 😊
I moved to Newport and personally I’m very wealthy.
There is more charity shops in Newport
Thanks to Margaret Thatcher.
All they done is call the police on me 160 times all more . They definitely getting there money worth on the police . I think it's a pecking order 💯🏴
Rubbish newport is not a poor city more and more people are moving to newport from England hence why more and more houses are being built to accommodate them
It's right next to Cardiff so it's like Wrexham near Chester, overshadowed by its richer neighbour.
Poor old newport, nice place to be from
My hometown. I plan to retired their 🖤🧡
Ok.
I went there today. It was utterly depressing and I shall never go back
I love living in Newport
Tredegar= tre-dee-ga (not whatever you said!)
two words. Labour council.
I emigrated to the ☀ not long after brexit. A hunch.
Before I went I visited a few places I either holidayed in Wales (as I loved Tenby etc and the cities), as a child and adult. Worked there too.
Newport was last on my list.
This was about early 2017.
I couldn't believe the dirty place it had become.
Burger King was full of our colonial friends.
That street onward to the police station looked like an area "somewhere else"
An elderly gent saw my face....
"Yes there's a big asylum centre here; and a big narcotics problem nowadays".
Me?
I was glad to get on the train and leave
Living here its not that bad
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Blessed be ❤😂😂x
Pill is the safest place in Newport. Nothing to see here
Cardiff just as bad ,a.nohome
Welsh Government block the building M4 relief Road which would give better infrastructure and inward investment/jobs. They also run Education and NHS Wales- both worse than in England. Locally the Newport City centre has drastically declined. Despite this, the Labour Party is always elected, so I assume the majority are happy with what we have. Obviously having Welsh road signs and Council correspondence softens the blow!
Also any young person hoping for a good career relocate to Cardiff, Bristol or elsewhere for uni, then never return to the ugly town again.
Tory, much? Little Englander comment.
I live on Cardiff Bay. We all say Newport's a place you never stop at just a dump you have to drive passed to get to Cardiff
Nearby Port Talbot is far worse than Newport!
I worked in Llanwern Steel Works 50 years ago with many people who left Port Talbot to work in Llanwern because they thought it had a brighter future with its pipe works. Port Talbot is still there and Llanwern has gone.