Welcome to Britain's strictest estate: How neighbours have to follow a 32-page handbook of rules which bans hanging up washing on a Sunday and demands gates are painted black to maintain its 'charm'
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The neighbourhood, in Birmingham's leafy Calthorpe Estate, has been dubbed the 'strictest' in the country. Resident Howard Scriben (pictured left) didn't know about the rules before he moved in.

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