My neighbor made his backyard into a junkyard — it now stinks and my yard is full of rats

Disgusted locals are demanding action aft their neighbors turned their location into a makeshift dumpster pinch tons of trash dumped connected nan driveway.

Residents surviving connected Peach Avenue, successful Stafford, opportunity their lives are being made a misery by nan eyesore upland of discarded on nan residential street.

Shocking photos show piles of debris stacked up connected nan driveway — including rubble, sofas, mattresses, woody panels, fridges and carpets.

Homeowners opportunity nan mound of filth has been near to fester for complete a twelvemonth and is attracting rats and causing wellness problems for their children.

They declare nan proprietor of nan location has been collecting discarded and burning it time and nighttime alternatively than disposing of it astatine nan section dumpster.

Angry residents person accused nan section assembly of doing thing to thief contempt nan wellness hazard ‘absolutely stinking’ and being conscionable yards distant from a superior school.

One mom-of-two, who did not want to beryllium named, said: “I first complained to nan assembly past August and it has conscionable snowballed from there.

“In November they were capable to corroborate to maine they didn’t person a licence to do this, yet thing has been done.

“My boy was sick for 5 months and disconnected schoolhouse for 8 weeks. He has asthma and couldn’t breathe.

“But they don’t care, they conscionable transportation connected doing what they want.

“There’s rats everywhere, it towers truthful precocious I don’t cognize really it hasn’t fallen complete yet and it perfectly stinks.

“There’s metallic spilling retired into nan street, it’s not conscionable confined to nan garden, I’ve mislaid count astatine really galore cars person had their tires punctured.

“We person fires each time done nan summertime and winter. The occurrence work comes retired and past they relight them arsenic soon arsenic they’ve gone.

“I’ve driven myself insane pinch this. I contacted nan Environment Agency yesterday and they were amazed nan assembly hadn’t advised I contacted them a twelvemonth ago.

“They should person been nan first larboard of telephone but I’ve had to do each this investigation myself arsenic nan assembly person done nothing.

“Their customer work has been shocking. They’ve blamed everything from utilizing agency unit to group having near nan council.

“There’s besides antisocial behaviour and parties until precocious astatine night. We tried contacting constabulary but they’ve said it’s a civilian matter.

“We’re astatine nan extremity of our tether. Children person to locomotion past it each time connected nan measurement to school.

“It’s not safe. It’s a awesome wellness hazard and it’s been allowed to rot for a year. There’s debris everywhere. He’ll travel retired and smash glass.

“I’m conscionable truthful disheartened that we’ve been near to unrecorded adjacent to this without anyone seemingly wanting to help.”

Another section resident, who did not wish to beryllium named for fearfulness of reprisals, said: “It’s been going connected for illustration this for astir a twelvemonth and thing has changed.

“I person complained galore times, arsenic person galore of america here, but each we’re told is that they are looking into it.

“A batch of residents are not happy astatine all, I cognize their nonstop neighbors person suffered from rat problems.

“There’s a superior schoolhouse adjacent pinch small kids and this point is simply a wellness hazard.

“It has conscionable grown and grown. They effort to pain immoderate of it and past nan occurrence work comes retired and tells them off, and past burns it again arsenic soon arsenic they’ve gone.

“All this is successful nan beforehand garden, truthful you’ve sewage fume billowing into different properties.

“Just past week 1 neighbour staged a 1 female beryllium down protestation — everyone is angry thing is being done.

“They opportunity they will bargain and dispose of your scrap yet it each seems to conscionable extremity up successful this garden.”

Jason Glover, who runs a trash removal business successful Staffordshire, said he had wrongly been linked to nan messiness connected societal media and it was his relative who was responsible.

He said: “I’m based successful Stone but group person been saying online this is to do pinch maine and my business but I tin opportunity 100 percent that is not nan case.

“The location successful Stafford has thing to do pinch maine and it’s my relative who lives location and he has a fewer issues.

“He has been doing his ain point pinch astir 10 different guys and is bringing nan rubbish backmost and burning it.

“But it has attracted forbidden dumpers excessively truthful not each nan rubbish location is his. I’ve been getting threats online arsenic a result.

“I’m conscionable trying to protect my business. A batch of group person commented vouching for maine but others person been rather nasty and I want to group nan grounds straight.

“What he is doing is not linked to maine aliases my company, I person 5 prima reviews, I’m afloat licensed and wholly legit.

“I person tried to thief him since he was a young lad but he conscionable does his ain thing. If you moreover tried to speak to him astir this — he would conscionable show you to f–k off.”

A Stafford Borough Council spokesperson said: “This is an unpleasant business for those having to unrecorded pinch this connected their doorstep.

“As we are presently taking ineligible action to get this business resolved, and forestall those from continuing to make nan lives of residents of Peach Avenue a misery, we cannot opportunity thing much astatine this time.”

A Staffordshire Police spokesperson said they would beryllium incapable to remark arsenic ineligible action is being taken.