Residents including parents with pushchairs were forced to walk in the road as a mountain of filth is left blocking the pavement on a Birmingham street outside one home.<\/p>\n
Outside the property on Somerville Road, Small Heath a pile-up of wasted dump which includes bags of clothes, cupboards, a fridge-freezer, a headboard and broken parts of a sofa.<\/p>\n
It is claimed that it has been there since Friday November 29.<\/p>\n
The manager of the property outside which the rubbish was piled blamed a previous tenant and said he was too was a victim of the festering waste.<\/p>\n
Shaun McRobert, 21, said: \u201cMost of the pathway is blocked, people are being forced to walk into the road and speeding is a really bad problem here.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an eyesore – having to walk past that every day is a joke.<\/p>\n
“It should have been removed by now, it\u2019s a health and safety thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
“There could be broken glass, anything inside of there, one little mistake and someone could end up getting hurt.”<\/p>\n
Bader, 32, said he was particularly affected as the waste spilled across the front of his house.<\/p>\n
He said: “It\u2019s really bad, we have trouble getting out of the house with the prams.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s going to attract rats; mice and it\u2019s going to affect my house because I am the one closest.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s too dangerous and you have to walk in the road to get out, it\u2019s really annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nabil Guennoun, 30, said he had never seen anything like it in his five years living in the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no good, it\u2019s dangerous, especially when all the cars are parked,” he said.<\/p>\n
One resident, who would not be named, said it was a major inconvenience to her and her family.<\/p>\n
She said: “When you\u2019re walking with the kids you have to walk around it, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n
“The leaves and mud are a mess in itself but to have that – it\u2019s just messy.”<\/p>\n
But the resident said fly-tipping was fairly common in her area.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve had this kind of behaviour forever,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s rubbish that stays there for weeks and weeks and nothing is done.”<\/p>\n
The owner of the property has said \u201cthe mess was due to a previous tenant and I\u2019m a victim, just like everybody else.”<\/p>\n
He was making efforts to remove the waste on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 4 and said it would all be removed by the evening.<\/p>\n
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing reports from member of the public, we were made aware of this incident – which is now being investigated.<\/p>\n
“As it is under investigation we cannot make any further comment in detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn general, as we have said on many occasions in the past, fly-tipping is unacceptable and a blight on our communities that citizens should not have to suffer.<\/p>\n
“Where we have credible evidence that meets the threshold required for a prosecution, we do not hesitate to take cases before the courts, as has been evidenced in a number of high-profile cases in the recent past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents including parents with pushchairs were forced to walk in the road as a mountain of filth is left blocking the pavement on a Birmingham street outside one home.<\/p>\n
Outside the property on Somerville Road, Small Heath a pile-up of wasted dump which includes bags of clothes, cupboards, a fridge-freezer, a headboard and broken parts of a sofa.<\/p>\n
It is claimed that it has been there since Friday November 29.<\/p>\n
The manager of the property outside which the rubbish was piled blamed a previous tenant and said he was too was a victim of the festering waste.<\/p>\n
Shaun McRobert, 21, said: \u201cMost of the pathway is blocked, people are being forced to walk into the road and speeding is a really bad problem here.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an eyesore – having to walk past that every day is a joke.<\/p>\n
“It should have been removed by now, it\u2019s a health and safety thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
“There could be broken glass, anything inside of there, one little mistake and someone could end up getting hurt.”<\/p>\n
Bader, 32, said he was particularly affected as the waste spilled across the front of his house.<\/p>\n
He said: “It\u2019s really bad, we have trouble getting out of the house with the prams.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s going to attract rats; mice and it\u2019s going to affect my house because I am the one closest.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s too dangerous and you have to walk in the road to get out, it\u2019s really annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nabil Guennoun, 30, said he had never seen anything like it in his five years living in the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no good, it\u2019s dangerous, especially when all the cars are parked,” he said.<\/p>\n
One resident, who would not be named, said it was a major inconvenience to her and her family.<\/p>\n
She said: “When you\u2019re walking with the kids you have to walk around it, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n
“The leaves and mud are a mess in itself but to have that – it\u2019s just messy.”<\/p>\n
But the resident said fly-tipping was fairly common in her area.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve had this kind of behaviour forever,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s rubbish that stays there for weeks and weeks and nothing is done.”<\/p>\n
The owner of the property has said \u201cthe mess was due to a previous tenant and I\u2019m a victim, just like everybody else.”<\/p>\n
He was making efforts to remove the waste on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 4 and said it would all be removed by the evening.<\/p>\n
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing reports from member of the public, we were made aware of this incident – which is now being investigated.<\/p>\n
“As it is under investigation we cannot make any further comment in detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn general, as we have said on many occasions in the past, fly-tipping is unacceptable and a blight on our communities that citizens should not have to suffer.<\/p>\n
“Where we have credible evidence that meets the threshold required for a prosecution, we do not hesitate to take cases before the courts, as has been evidenced in a number of high-profile cases in the recent past.\u201d<\/p>\n
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