19 January 2023 , 12:34
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A city has been named the 'stinkiest' place after receiving 1000 smell complaints every year.
The place with the most complaints about stenches last year was has been revealed as Stoke-on-Trent City Council
It notched-up 860 complaints about smell last year and has the honour of being the stinkiest authority in England.
The complaints average almost two and a half per day, and the Staffordshire city helped make it a one-two for the West Midlands, joined by Birmingham, with the second city receiving a total of 649.
In the top 10 of all the locations which were the 'stinkiest places' in England, the cities also included Westminster, Leeds and Swindon were also listed in the chart.
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Claire Watson, an odour expert at Airmatic which carried out the study, said bad smells can affect our health.
Stoke-on Trent was top of the bad smell league (Bloomberg via Getty Images)She said: “Odour complaints are a direct result of air pollution in an area.
“This can have a negative effect on the health and well-being of the residents in such areas with them breathing in air pollutants.
“These can enter our bloodstream and contribute to coughing or itchy eyes and cause or worsen many respiratory conditions.
“Aside from the physical health impacts, there are also the negative mental effects on residents living day to day exposed to such odours.”
The city of Stoke-on-Trent has been named the stinkiest (Getty Images)Other cities which also took a place on the list included the cities of Portsmouth, Bradford and Nottingham,.
Three London boroughs were also represented in Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea and Bexley - which gathered 1,694 complaints in total
There were other areas, however, which scored low in smell complaints.
The fewest number of odour complaints were recorded in Yorkshire which had 42, followed East Riding in Yorkshire with just 66 complaints.
There was one location, Norwich, which had the honour of being the nicest-smelling location with zero reports of bad smells.
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Odour complaints are a direct result of air pollution in an area Airmatic bosses said (Getty Images)Businesses need Environment Agency permits if their work falls into manufacturing, agriculture and energy sectors and have any activity which can pollute air, water or land.
The top two places with the highest number of complaints about businesses in these areas were the West Midlands and London.
For every 28 businesses operating there was one complaint in three sectors in the West Midlands area and one for every 54 in London.
In 2021 The Mirror reported how residents in 'Britain's smelliest village' claimed the stench coming from a landfill site is causing an "off-the-scale environmental disaster".
The Airmatic study was undertaken as businesses continue to consider the impact they are having on the environment with stricter measures continually being introduced (Getty Images)In February, locals reported a nauseating eggy stench like "rotting flesh" or "dirty nappies" coming from Walleys Quarry in Silverdale, Staffordshire.
Angry residents have been forced to tape up their doors and put bags over their windows to try to stop the vile smell getting into their homes.
Some say the so-called The Silverdale Stink is so unpleasant it burns the back of their throat.
Others have reported headaches, asthma attacks, stress, anxiety and sleeplessness and are demanding something is done about the problem in Newcastle-under-Lyme.