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Leeds Live
National
Jaimie Kay

We return to the rat-infested Leeds estate a year on - and a lot has changed

Over a year ago, LeedsLive visited a notorious estate just outside the city where people were facing high piles of rubbish, intimidating behaviour and violent attacks.

Lincoln Green, located in the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill borough of Leeds was last year given partial closure orders at 13 council-owned buildings within the cluster. This was due to yobs throwing stones through windows, women feeling threatened by men drinking and smoking in stairwells.

LeedsLive revisited the estate to ask residents if any changes had been made. One year on from the police interventions, the area has now regained more of a sense of community with those living in the flats feeling like things are better.

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