'Nightmare neighbours turned their garden into a dump - our kids are falling ill'

A spot connected Peach Avenue successful Stafford, wherever rubbish has been dumped successful the beforehand garden. (Image: Emma Trimble / SWNS)

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

Shocking photos amusement piles of debris stacked up connected the driveway - including rubble, sofas, mattresses, woody panels, fridges and carpets.

Homeowners accidental the mound of filth has been near to fester for implicit a twelvemonth and is attracting rats and causing wellness problems for their children.

They assertion the proprietor of the location has been collecting discarded and burning it time and nighttime alternatively than disposing of it astatine the section tip.

Angry residents person accused the section assembly of doing thing to assistance contempt the wellness hazard 'absolutely stinking' and being 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 has been done.

"My lad was poorly 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 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.

"We person fires each time done the summertime and winter. The occurrence work travel retired and past they relight them arsenic soon arsenic they've gone.

A spot connected Peach Avenue successful Stafford, wherever rubbish has been dumped successful the beforehand garden. (Image: Emma Trimble / SWNS)

"I've driven myself insane with this. I contacted the Environment Agency yesterday and they were amazed the assembly hadn't advised I contacted them a twelvemonth ago.

"They should person been the archetypal larboard of telephone but I've had to bash each this probe myself arsenic the assembly person done nothing.

"Their lawsuit work has been shocking. They've blamed everything from utilizing bureau unit to radical having near the council.

"There's besides antisocial behaviour and parties until precocious astatine night. We tried contacting constabulary but they've said its a civilian matter.

"We're astatine the extremity of our tether. Children person to locomotion past it each time connected the mode to school.

"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."

Another section resident, who did not privation to beryllium named for fearfulness oregon reprisals, said: "It's been going connected similar 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 blessed astatine all, I cognize their nonstop neighbours person suffered with rat problems.

"There's a superior schoolhouse adjacent with small kids and this happening is simply a wellness hazard.

"It has conscionable grown and grown. They effort and pain immoderate of it and past the occurrence work comes retired and archer them off, and past then pain it again arsenic soon arsenic they've gone.

A spot connected Peach Avenue successful Stafford, wherever rubbish has been dumped successful the beforehand garden. (Image: Emma Trimble / SWNS)

"All this is successful the beforehand garden, truthful you've got fume billowing into different properties.

"Just past week 1 neighbour staged a 1 pistillate beryllium down protestation - everyone is aggravated thing is being done.

"They accidental they volition bargain and dispose of your scrap yet it each seems to conscionable extremity up successful this garden."

Jason Glover, who runs a rubbish removal concern successful Staffordshire, said helium had wrongly been linked to the messiness connected societal media and it was his member who is responsible.

He said: "I'm based successful Stone but radical person been saying online this is to bash with maine and my concern but I tin accidental 100 per cent that is not the case.

"The location successful Stafford is thing to bash with maine and it's my member who lives determination and helium has a fewer issues.

"He has been doing his ain happening with astir 10 different guys and is bringing the rubbish backmost and burning it.

"But it has attracted fly-tippers excessively truthful not each the rubbish determination is his. I've been getting threats online arsenic a result.

"I'm conscionable trying to support my business. A batch of radical person commented vouching for maine but others person been rather nasty and I privation to acceptable the grounds straight.

"What helium is doing is not linked to maine oregon my company, I person 5 prima reviews, I'm afloat licenced and wholly legit.

"I person tried to assistance him since helium was a young lad but helium conscionable does his ain thing. If you adjacent tried to talk to him astir this - helium would conscionable archer you to f**k off."

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

"As we are presently taking ineligible enactment to get this concern resolved, and forestall those from continuing to marque the lives of residents of Peach Avenue a misery, we cannot accidental thing much astatine this time.”

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