"People said all sorts of things when they heard I was coming to work here. But people say things about many places. I don't think this is any worse than some other parts of Manchester."
Donna Niman is a youth worker at West Gorton Youth Centre, Manchester.
The area achieved notoriety after becoming the backdrop for the Chatsworth Estate, setting of the Bafta-winning Channel 4 drama Shameless. This everyday story of feckless alcoholic Frank Gallagher, his sprawling family and their neighbours, was packed with "sex, drugs, gratuitous violence, love and scams", according to Channel 4's own publicity. "Venture if you dare on to Manchester's Chatsworth Estate," urged the show's web site.
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