Nightmare neighbour who 'used garden as dump' kicked out of home

Neighbours accidental this festering upland of discarded attracted rats (Image: SWNS)

A house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift rubbish extremity looks acceptable to yet beryllium cleared aft a nightmare tenant was booted retired of the property.

Families had complained their lives had been made hellhole for much than a twelvemonth by the festering upland of discarded connected Peach Avenue, successful Stafford.  Disgusted homeowners said the eyesore had attracted rats, caused wellness problems for their children and accused assembly bosses of doing thing to help.

But aft their plight made headlines, Stafford Borough Council stepped successful to instrumentality tribunal enactment against tenant Steven Glover.  He has present been evicted from the spot aft the authorization secured a 3 period closure bid from magistrates.

The assembly has present evicted tenant Steven Glover (Image: SWNS)

It comes aft Mr Glover failed to comply with a announcement ordering him to region the tonnes of discarded and wide up the plot to its erstwhile state.  It means cipher is allowed to participate the spot for the adjacent 3 months isolated from exigency services oregon assembly workers.  

Work has present started to region the piles of debris stacked up connected the driveway - including rubble, sofas, mattresses, woody panels, fridges and carpets. One resident, who did not privation to beryllium named, said: "Everyone is breathing a immense suspiration of relief. - but it's a spot of a gag it has taken this long."

"We've since had rats successful our house and trapped 13 truthful far. We've been present 20 years and ne'er had them earlier truthful we cognize its each down to that mess."

"And I don't deliberation its immoderate coincidence this each got sorted arsenic soon arsenic the assembly got immoderate atrocious publicity implicit it. But astatine slightest it looks to yet beryllium implicit present but we'll judge it erstwhile we spot it. It's surely a measurement successful the close direction."

Steven Glover failed to comply with a announcement ordering him to region the tonnes of discarded (Image: SWNS)

Locals had claimed the tenant had been collecting discarded and burning it time and nighttime alternatively than disposing of it astatine the section tip. They said their lives were made a misery by the 'stinking' wellness hazard which sat conscionable yards distant from a superior school.

One mum-of-two, who did not privation to beryllium named, said: "I archetypal complained to the 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 bash this, yet thing was done.  There's rats everywhere, it towers truthful precocious I don't cognize however it hasn't fallen implicit yet and it perfectly stinks."

"There's metallic spilling retired into the street, its not conscionable confined to the garden, I've mislaid number astatine however immoderate cars person had their tyres punctured."

"It's not safe. Its a large wellness hazard and its 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."

The assembly accidental it hopes this 'misery' is present implicit (Image: SWNS)

The assembly said they volition present beryllium billing the tenant to retrieve the costs of the work, which is expected to tally into thousands of pounds.

Councillor Ian Fordham, furniture subordinate for environment, said: "I anticipation this volition bring an extremity to the misery this idiosyncratic has brought to the residents of Peach Avenue."

"It was important that we had the due ineligible process successful spot to not lone get this unsightly messiness removed, but to guarantee it did not hap connected this onshore again.

"We person secured a Closure Order from the courts that bans anyone, including the tenant, from stepping ft connected the property. If they bash they tin beryllium arrested."

"We person arranged for the location to beryllium boarded up and for this important magnitude of rubbish to beryllium removed - and we volition beryllium billing the tenant oregon proprietor for the outgo of doing that."

"We volition beryllium moving with the proprietor to marque definite the location tin beryllium brought backmost into usage and go a affirmative summation to the street."

He added: "Thank you to the constabulary and different partners for their assistance successful making definite we get the close result for the neighbours and we volition enactment with residents to code immoderate ongoing concerns they whitethorn have."