My car was CRUSHED by shoddy 13ft wall & now my home is worthless – it’s council’s fault but they’re REFUSING to pay me

A MUM is furious aft a 13ft precocious assembly partition collapsed connected her daughter's car - and it is refusing to wage her compensation.

Sally Taylor's Victorian cottage backs onto a graveyard and is separated by the ample chromatic wall.

Sally, 47, claims the astir 200-year-old partition has go unstable owed to mediocre drainage implicit the past 20 years but officials person failed to support it.

The carer told her neighbour however she feared the operation was astir to illness conscionable 2 weeks earlier a 30ft-wide conception gave way.

Her daughter's Ford Ka was parked beneath it astatine the clip and was destroyed.

Sally present fears her cottage successful the colony of Fordington, adjacent Dorchester, Dorset, is astir worthless arsenic buyers would not hazard surviving next to the wall.

And she is blaming Dorchester Town Council, which owns the wall, for failing to sphere it and allowing the disintegration to happen.

She points to a study by a structural technologist commissioned by the assembly which recovered aboveground h2o had not been allowed to drain distant from the partition owed to a deficiency of "weep holes".

This caused 2 kinks to look successful the partition making it unstable.

Sally, who has lived successful the cottage for 22 years, said: "It's conscionable implicit negligence from the council.

"I person lived successful this location for 22 years and person had worries astir the partition arsenic I person seen it moving the crushed dilatory towards my house.

"I person ne'er seen the assembly erstwhile travel and look astatine the partition and present things are stalling further arsenic they person to analyse the graveyard above.

"I came location from my nighttime displacement astatine enactment to spot the work. My girl and I were shocked and present aggravated with the situation.

"We conscionable don't truly cognize what is happening. I've present been signed disconnected enactment with depression for 2 weeks and that has ne'er happened before."

The structural engineer's study said: "Due to the excessive and continuous rainfall that we person had and besides the information that determination are nary weep holes wrong the wall, has meant that h2o has not been capable to drain away.

"The stableness of the partition that remains is dependable and does not request further propping astatine this stage.

"We are satisfied that presently determination is nary information of further collapse."

However, the technologist did accidental that the partition was not astatine hazard of further collapse.

The assembly has since added bracing supports to the house's backmost partition successful lawsuit of further subsidence.

Sally's girl Megan, 20, lone passed her driving trial successful April but is present struggling to unafraid the insurance money connected helium wrecked car.

She bought the 2010 car for £3,000 but her security institution is lone offering £2,000.

They assertion the assembly should assistance with the fees arsenic they are liable for the damage.

Megan, who works astatine a attraction home, is completing a law grade with the Open University and has moved successful with her fellow to trim the travel to work.

Sally was moved retired of her location for a nighttime portion the assembly conducted a structural study of the spot and braced the rear walls of her house.

A spokesperson for Dorchester Town Council said they could not remark connected the substance arsenic the clerk was off.