Police called to massive Birmingham house party as 130 kids 'cause chaos and do balloons'

Police were called to a massive house party as an estimated 130 revellers packed the address and sparked chaos outside. Officers were pictured in Westmead Crescent in Erdington as the bash at a short-term rental property listed on several letting websites threatened to spill out of control.

A neighbour said she was told the house had been ‘booked by a girl for five people to stay’ - but ‘people just kept turning up’. The landlady was said to have been called to the scene but those in the house ‘would not let her in’, it was claimed.

The party was said to have lasted for several hours from last Friday night, November 22, into well into the small hours of the following day. The neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: “Its a two-bedroom property, a small house. When the landlady went inside she could not move.

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“There were people standing squashed in the lounge and up the stairs. There were girls running around our little Crescent. People were parking on neighbours’ lawns, and they were doing those balloon gas things. It was totally chaotic.

“When they eventually managed to get them out it was counted as 130 kids in the house altogether. This finally ended at 4.15am.

“We have never had any issues around our area as it's very quiet. It’s not the right place for a short-term rental property and a neighbour said if she could move, she would.”

Another neighbour, posting on social media, said she was disturbed in the early hours. She said: “I woke up at around 1am to a noise - looked out to see a large group of girls walking up the road, no big deal.

“I woke up again at around 2am and looked out this time to see the road full of police cars, police walking up and down the road, other cars and taxis everywhere around the Woodacre Road junction, and hoards of youngsters walking away from the Paget Green end. When I say hoards, it looked like people leaving a concert or something there were that many.”

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The property is listed with Airbnb, booking.com and on the Birmingham Hotels site. It is described as a modern, luxury two-bedroom house, with ‘free WiFi, private parking and a garden’. It has a flat-screen TV and patio and a no smoking policy, according to the particulars.

Airbnb said it had no bookings through its platform for that address on Friday, November 22. A spokeswoman added: “Parties are banned on Airbnb, and we have seen a 75 percent drop in the number of party reports in the UK since we introduced this ban.

“Our reservation screening technology in the UK aims to help reduce the risk of disruptive parties by taking steps to identify potential higher-risk reservations and prevent those bookings from being made.” The spokeswoman said: “Our ground rules for guests help make clear our expectation to treat hosts, homes and neighbourhoods with respect, and we may remove users who violate our strict policies.”

BirminghamLive attempted to contact the host, but she declined to respond to our message. A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “We were called to a report of a disturbance in Westmead Crescent, Birmingham, shortly before 11.30pm on 22 November. Officers attended, but no criminal offences were disclosed.”