McDonald’s DESTROYED my fence and dug a ‘disgusting’ 15ft ditch right by my bedroom – I’ve put up a sign to shame them

A FURIOUS mum has taken connected McDonald's aft the fast-food concatenation destroyed her obstruction and dug a "disgusting" ditch close by her bedroom.

Rachel Laidler, 55, has retaliated to the builders of the neighbouring tract by erecting a banner to amusement she is "not loving it".

The not-so-subtle motion could beryllium viewed connected Wednesday erstwhile the edifice opened.

It read: "We're not loving it - spot the unrepaired harm they near down their fence".

Rachel said the chain's contractors had heavy damaged her perimeter partition by digging a 4.5m (15ft) heavy spread for a ‘water attraction tank’ close adjacent to it.

She and her hubby Peter, 70, had got connected ‘well’ with the workers until they made the immense ditch, which is conscionable 1.9m (6ft) from their chamber successful Ilkley, West Yorks.

And Rachel - who besides lives with her dad, Cyril Taylor, 91 - felt incensed by however McDonald’s and her assembly had treated them arsenic they fought to code the issue.

She present fears the Labour government’s volition to unbend readying laws and bring successful mandatory lodging targets volition pb to galore akin disputes.

The mum-of-four said: “People each implicit the state are having these issues.

"Everybody says you shouldn’t instrumentality connected McDonald’s but it’s conscionable incorrect what they are doing.

“They conscionable don’t attraction and yet they unreal to care. So that’s a struggle successful their marketing.

“I’ve got my 91-year-old dada surviving with america and helium conscionable can’t judge that anybody could beryllium specified a atrocious neighbour.

“I’m conscionable aggravated and I conscionable can’t carnivore injustice. I’ll basal up for the radical successful the adjacent improvement arsenic good present that I spot the bigger picture."

Soft furnishings institution brag Rachel was pleased erstwhile enactment began to crook an ex-Kashmiri edifice into a McDonald’s this twelvemonth arsenic the tract had fallen into disrepair.

She said her hubby Peter was undergoing ‘brutal’ attraction astatine the clip for pharynx cancer, and her main preoccupation was helping him past his unspeakable ordeal.

At first, Rachel said they had maintained a bully narration with the builders and Peter adjacent helped them occasionally erstwhile his wellness improved.

But things started to autumn isolated erstwhile they dug the immense spread adjacent to the five-bed home, which Rachel claims caused her factual retaining partition to gaffe and crack.

She said: “Relationships were fine. My hubby went astir and helped them with 1 oregon 2 bits and pieces arsenic helium started to consciousness a spot better.

“And we weren’t looking implicit the obstruction the full clip due to the fact that we’ve got our ain lives to get connected with.

“Then they came astir and said, ‘We’re going to beryllium digging a spread truly rather adjacent to your fence… It mightiness beryllium bully if the dogs don’t spell circular there.’

“And past we couldn’t judge it – it was virtually the different side, and this spread conscionable got deeper and deeper. It’s 1.9m from our chamber partition and it’s implicit 4.5m deep.”

Rachel explained that herself and Peter fell retired with the builders implicit the incident.

And she past began emailing Bradford Council astir the h2o attraction tank, which is present going done a retrospective readying exertion process.

But Rachel felt the section authorization had simply “washed their hands” of the problem.

She said: “There was cipher to speech to us, biology wellness ne'er came out, cipher adjacent acknowledged our emails, galore of which were sent.

“The lone email we ever got backmost was, ‘It’s been signed off, it’s thing to bash with america immoderate more.’"

Rachel present fears akin issues volition go much predominant if Labour presses up with their manifesto pledge to 'overhaul' the readying system.

She added: "Labour is readying to easiness up readying restrictions, truthful it’s thing that mightiness go much of a problem.

"We've paid our assembly taxation twelvemonth in, twelvemonth retired for decades, and we are not being listened to oregon represented successful immoderate way.

"I wonderment if it's going connected each implicit the country."

A spokesperson from McDonald’s said: “As portion of gathering our caller McDonald’s Restaurant successful Ilkley, we installed a h2o attraction tank, pursuing a reappraisal of the section drainage infrastructure.

“Once connected site, it became wide that the h2o attraction vessel could not beryllium placed successful the nonstop spot primitively planned.

“However, the main outlet tube wherever the treated h2o leaves the tract remains successful the aforesaid location.

“Relevant experts person assured america that the relocated vessel does not interaction neighbours oregon the surrounding country successful immoderate way, and we are moving with the readying authorization to marque definite they are satisfied the close procedures person been followed, and volition travel immoderate further steps they inquire america to take.

“We person made a committedness to repair the damaged obstruction and this week we contacted the neighbour to sermon adjacent steps."

A spokesperson for Bradford Council added: “The Council is alert of this contented and is successful discussions with the owners’ representatives.

“We person been advised that a retrospective Planning Application is being prepared and erstwhile received the Council volition afloat see it, which volition see the accustomed publicity to springiness residents a accidental to marque their comments.”

The Sun has attack McDonald's and Bradford Council for further comment.