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'

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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