Finding the worst area for parking in Birmingham is very difficult – the truth is there are appalling examples almost wherever you turn.

Would-be councillor, Shuranjeet Singh, has posted a video of one corner of the inner city with a claim to the title.

Winson Green is becoming nearly as synonymous with terrible parking as it is prisons.

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His video shows cars hanging half off the pavement, cars parked in the middle of the road and others wrong side of the road – as well as a smattering of tickets.

Shuranjeet pointed out there would be little chance of an ambulance making its way through the streets.

We headed out to the area, made famous by HMP Birmingham, and found the same thing.

Terribe driving is nothing new to us – we are campaigning to get more people banned for life.

When we arrived, also saw pavements entirely blocked – meaning mothers with pushchairs had to go on the street to get by.

Walking is less of a stroll and more of an obstacle course.

You find yourself stepping sideways around wing mirrors and squeezing between brick walls and door handles.

For pedestrians, the message seemed clear: adapt or step into the road.

I watched a woman with a pushchair approach a particularly bad stretch.

A van had mounted the pavement so completely that there was simply no gap left. She paused, glanced at the traffic, and carefully manoeuvred down the kerb into the street before pushing the pram along the edge of the road.

None of this caused much reaction from the locals. People stepped into the road without hesitation, as if it were part of the normal rhythm of the place.

A man walking his dog didn’t even break conversation while detouring around a car parked directly across the pavement.

What struck me most wasn’t the bad parking itself—it was how unsurprising it felt.

The reputation of the area had prepared me well. When you arrive somewhere already known for dreadful parking, you half expect the pavements to be treated like spare driveway space.

And sure enough, they were.