Our street has turned into a car park after landslide BLOCKED the road… we’re trapped in our driveways & have to walk

A SWANKY thoroughfare has turned into a car parkland aft a landslide blocked the road, leaving residents trapped successful their driveways.

A acceptable of posh new-build houses person been chopped disconnected by tonnes of mud and rubble which has seen them incapable to usage their cars for astir a month.

The locals from Haden Cross Drive successful Cradley Heath, West Midlands, person to parkland up to 100 metres from their beforehand doors.

The properties look retired connected a steep wooded country wherever a ‘criblock wall’ was built to support the world astatine bay.

But they soon started noticing parts of the partition had begun bending forwards nether the value of the hillside.

In March, portion of it collapsed onto the road, blocking disconnected respective houses connected the cul-de-sac.

Developers Dunedin Homes & Development, rapidly cleared the rubble, bringing successful 150 elephantine sandbags to stabilise the situation.

But successful the December storms, that was each washed distant and tonnes of hillside fell crossed the roadworthy touching the pavements and coming wrong a fewer feet of the houses themselves.

Since then, the households person been plunged into a nightmare – incapable to thrust past the catastrophe and having to parkland adjacent and transportation buying and young children past the catastrophe each clip they permission their homes.

Sandra Whittall, 77, who moved into 1 of the detached properties erstwhile they were built 4 years ago, said: "I consciousness devastated by what has happened due to the fact that it has ruined everybody’s lives astir here.

"We had been trying to determination due to the fact that of the different problems with this property – the deficiency of lighting, the travel hazards everywhere, the information it was ne'er finished properly, but present determination is nary accidental of selling.

"People can’t adjacent entree their ain homes properly," she explained.

The retired institution manager added: "The concern present is conscionable chaos and the developer is doing thing astir it whatsoever.

"We would ne'er person moved successful had we known."

Residents accidental they are successful a nightmare due to the fact that the roadworthy inactive belongs to the developer and has not yet been adopted by the section Sandwell Council.

And it seems that nary 1 is taking work for the landslip that has marooned them.

"There is an statement betwixt the developers and the institution that built the wall," said Reece Aleksander, 33, whose location sits adjacent to the collapsed wall.

Reece, an engineer, said that a bigger incline to the roadworthy and less houses would person been better.

"This is an aged mining area," helium added.

"The houses are beauteous but you person to question the Council giving support to physique successful this area.

"You could spot the partition bending and I warned them for six weeks but was ignored.

"They patched things up with sandbags but a week oregon truthful earlier Christmas the roadworthy became decently blocked.

"The Council accidental they are monitoring the concern but are not funny due to the fact that this is inactive a backstage road."

Another nonmigratory said that it was a "nightmare" walking to their location with their young kid - particularly erstwhile it's icy.

Mark Payne, 64, an HGV driver, said: "I person a van connected my thrust and I’ve not been capable to usage it since good earlier Christmas.

"We are stuck. It’s not the landslip that truly gets maine but the information that no-one seems to beryllium doing thing astir it."

He explained that residents received a missive successful aboriginal December assuring them that it would beryllium fixed, but thing has been done.

"If an ambulance oregon occurrence motor needed to get down present I don’t cognize what would happen," Mark warned.

The other cars parked astir the thoroughfare person besides caused issues for bin lorries, with immoderate struggling to get down it.

The Sun has contacted Sandwell Council for comment.