"I have seen a machete fight in my street, but because I grew up around here, personally I feel safe. I can imagine if you are coming from somewhere else what it would look like," says Sophie Pendlebury.
She is the shift manager for the day at the One Stop convenience store on Pentwyn Drive, Pentwyn, an estate in the east of Cardiff built as the city expanded in the mid 1970s. Typical of its era, the estate is a warren of dead-end roads lined with semi-detached and some terraced homes. On the outside it is ringed by the busy Pentwyn Road and Glyn Coed Road.
Sophie's words about her home community reflect a wider pride tempered by recognition that all is not right. Councillors describe problems with drugs and anti-social behaviour, children have been beaten up on the way home from school and there is a lack of facilities for younger people. Yet people enjoy living here.
