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Cholmeley Road runs from the A4 to the Kennet canal 100 metres before it joins the Thames. This street is filthy, rubbish is in the

Your top 10 dirty places

1: London 2: Reading 3: Glasgow 4: Bradford 5: Belfast 6: Cardiff 7: Birmingham 8: Southampton 9: Manchester 10: Brighton

gutters and around several corner shops. It impacts on the riverside. The area has a primary school and a mix of cultures and incomes from refugees to wealthy single people and couples. There is a community spirit but it is filthy!
Louis Carey, Reading

Every single street in the St Mary's area of Southampton is absolutely stinking.
Dave Manneh, Southampton

Kilburn High Road is an absolute mess - around the station there is litter everywhere. Please come and clean it up!
Razia Ahamed, London - NW6

In Stockport, on both sides of the A6 by the library, absolutely everything possible is thrown on the pavement. It would be very easy to catch the people who drop litter as there is a camera looking right at the spot.
Ian Brown, Stockport

I live in Pentwyn, Cardiff. It is an predominantly council housing estate but also has many privately owned properties. Between the closes of Pentwyn there are many small lanes interspersed with brambled copses. Glyn Collen, Pant Glas,Bryn Celyn, etc are examples of where furniture and large household objects are often

Peckham High Street gets my vote as the dirtiest street in Britain. Barry Jackson, London

dumped. Rubbish builds up for ages: prams, sofas, beer cans, broken glass, mattresses. I have written to the local councillor but not much ever happens. What annoys me is the pristeen condition of the other half of Pentwyn which is all privately owned and immaculately kept.. no unwieldy brambles or woodland there! The difference has to be seen to be believed. Don't we all pay the same council tax?
Sandra Finch, Cardiff

The whole borough of Hackney is an absolute mess - take any street you like!
Declan Carey, Hackney Borough

Forest Road in Walthamstow and the surrounding streets by Blackhorse Road station are a disgrace. I've lived there for over eight years and it's getting worse. It's one of the reasons why I'm moving out of the area.
Martina Fallon, Walthamstow

After visits by travelling circuses and civic events, the area of Walpole Park in Gosport is appalling. Glass and food is littered everywhere, making it very dangerous for local pets being taken for a walk.
Neville L.H. Cresdee, Gosport

I'd like to nominate Cornmarket Street in Oxford as it's a complete mess Richard Budgen, Oxford

My fianc�e and I spent last week in Scotland - four days in Glasgow, an interesting city, but full of litter, then two days in Edinburgh, a city where you could eat your dinner off the pavement...I hope that the UK follows Ireland and introduces a "carrier bag tax". When they cost 10p a pop, people won't be so quick to buy them or to discard them. The government should also mirror the Irish move towards a tax on chewing gum and polystyrene food containers.
Michael Barker, Pori, Finland

In general the rubbish throughout London is appalling. footpaths are piled with mountains of rubbish. I live in Hammersmith and work near Oxford Circus. Going out after work in the trendy West End you constantly have to dodge piles of the stuff left out at the end of the day. On returning to Hammersmith, more rubbish awaits you often blocking a substantial proportion of the footpath. Refuse collectors seem to work at obscure hours - I was bemused to see one crew working during the morning rush hour. I visited Geneva recently and there I found a city that was beautiful and clean, how do the Swiss do it?
Philip Moore, London - Hammersmith

St Austell and the surrounding area has a real litter problem Mrs Johanna Oates, St Austell Civic Society, Cornwall

Whitechapel High Street in Tower Hamlets is disgusting.
Robert Taylor, Whitechapel High Street, Tower Hamlets

Every morning on my way to work I have to walk past rubbish-strewn Peckham High Street. The area is absolutely disgusting. Businesses in the area just dump rotting vegetables and meat in boxes on the street. People in the area contribute to the mess by dropping litter everywhere. I've never seen anything like it, and I've done a lot of travelling - Peckham High Street gets my vote as the dirtiest street in Britain.
Barry Jackson, London

I'd like to nominate Cornmarket Street in Oxford as it's a complete mess. It's supposedly being "refurbished" but it looks like the aftermath of an explosion. Add to that lots of street traders in the middle of all this chaos and you'll understand why I'm nominating it.
Richard Budgen, Oxford

The sea of garbage in our neighbourhood of Holyland is a reflection of a greater malaise that infects the entire waste management of greater Belfast John Warren, Belfast

St Austell and the surrounding area has a real litter problem. Some areas of the town are blighted with abandoned rubbish, empty food containers and other discarded items. A few volunteers have tried to clean up the town but the problem needs the support of the whole community.
Mrs Johanna Oates,St Austell Civic Society, Cornwall

I would like to nominate London's West End as one of the filthiest places in the world. Rubbish lies stacked up on the pavements for tourists and residents to dodge. The West End makes many streets in Bangkok look clean and tidy.
Glyn Povah

Ensign Street in Tower Hamlets must be one of the filthiest streets in London. The council clearly do not care as there is constantly litter everywhere and poor street lighting allowing for regular car break-ins.
John Smith, London

Litter in Glasgow is at epidemic proportions Joh Delaney

Litter in Glasgow is at epidemic proportions. It is just simply part of the culture in Glasgow and its surroundings towns that you throw anything you don't need on the ground in front of you. I have even seen people standing next to bins and still throwing things on the road. And don't get me started on drivers tipping their ashtrays out of the car window!
John Delaney, Glasgow

Although I've never really thought of Pepys Road in New Cross Gate, South East London, as particularly dirty, we have recently had a lot of trouble with dumping in the area. It took me a month to get two armchairs, which were rapidly becoming dumping spots for other rubbish, removed from the street.Now we have a disused toilet on the street which has been there for over a week with little evidence that the council plans to do anything with it!
C Donald, South East London

Sparkhill in Birmingham is just one big tip. There must be a sign saying "Tip here - rats are welcome" Mark, Birmingham

Our street, Cornwall Crescent in Ladbroke Grove, London w11, is treated like a personal tipping area for some of the locals. Rubbish is constantly dropped off at lamp posts, outside houses, etc.
Laurence Cussen, Ladbroke Grove

I live in Liverpool city centre and am disgusted by the beer bottles and fast food wrappers that liiter the streets, particularly on Saturday and Sunday mornings. It is people's attitudes that need to change - so many times I've seen a mother walking down the street with her children; the child drops a crisp packet or sweet paper in the gutter and the mother just ignores it and walks on. If children are not taught that littering is wrong we will never live on clean streets.
Ghislaine Sayer, Liverpool

On a hot summer's evening on Stoke Newington High Street in Hackney the rubbish flies around, filling the air with the sweet smell of rotting fish, meat and veg Warren J Forsyth, London

The High Street in Richmond is filthy and ankle-deep in litter. George Street and Hill Street are not cleaned very often. Every fast food chain is represented there but the few existing bins are tiny, and at the end of a weekend they are completely overflowing. Why not have every shop and restaurant sponsor a bin?
Maria Johnson, Richmond, Surrey

Sparkhill in Birmingham is just one big tip. There must be a sign saying "Tip here - rats are welcome".
Mark, Birmingham

Hackney is generally disgusting. The council keeps putting out more litter bins but everyone just hurls it onto the street and even out of cars. The main problem is all the shop waste that gets dumped unbagged directly onto Stoke Newington High Street on a strip from Amhust Rd all the way up to Church St. On a hot summer's evening it flies around, filling the air with the sweet smell of rotting fish, meat and veg
Warren J Forsyth, London

I have to avoid bin juice and swarms of flies everyday. Emily, Brighton

Pretty much any street in Northern Ireland is filthy, covered in dog mess, gum, plastic bags, food wrappers, and so on.
Caroline

The Meadows street in Nottingham has a vaguely Dante-esque "concentric circles of hell" descent into squalor. The outer circle is made of push bins, which everybody leaves out seven days a week on the street, usually overflowing with rubbish. On a hot day, you gag as you walk out the door. In the small alleys behind the houses are bollards, roadwork signs, discarded furniture and mattresses. When you are indoors you can tell when somebody walks by outside � and where � by the distinctive crunching of various objects.
G. Cutter

Brighton has a terrible litter problem. Rubbish is frequently left on the street, only to be spread everywhere by seagulls eager for our leftovers. At my last flat we regularly had a whole bag of rubbish delivered to our garden by these birds. I work in central Brighton and both entries to my building are via alleyways, used as a rubbish area by local businesses. I have to avoid bin juice and swarms of flies everyday.
Emily, Brighton

For the last year I have been picking up the rubbish in Zinzan Street, Reading, where I live. Roisin McCauley, Reading

Reading spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on a campaign to achieve city status. They should have cleaned the town first - and done something about the weeds and rubbish in the streets around the Oracle Shopping Centre.
R.M. Lee, Reading

For the last year I have been picking up the rubbish in Zinzan Street, Reading, where I live. Pretty name, filthy street. I felt like a madwoman until I met other women like me. Outwardly normal, inwardly seething about the polystyrene food cartons, the crisp packets, plastic bottles and cigarette butts that litter their streets - and the chewing gum that sticks to their shoes. One woman I met recently has become so obsessive she has to restrict herself to six item of litter a day.
Roisin McCauley, Reading