Life on the 'Legoland' council estate in Bury where families and older folk are haunted by dealers and addicts
"They even put a sofa there so people can sit and wait for the dealers to come by with the drugs rather than hang out in the shadows"
19:56, 18 APR 2021
Updated
The estate has a lot of nicknames.
A stone's throw from the Bury's bustling town centre, it's earned the labels Legoland, and Plastic City, thanks to its prefabricated blocks
Sunken in a pit of land, secluded by the high walls that surround it, the neighbourhood is actually called Townside Fields.
It's a fact known mainly to older residents, who remember the neighbourhood in the 1970s.