So much rubbish has been randomly dumped against a house wall it has turned black from the mould.
A resident of Balsall Heath, in Birmingham, claims fly-tippers have left the rubbish there ‘several times a day’ for the last five years.
He said he is ‘sick and tired’ of constantly seeing the disgusting piles of bin bags and waste, which often even contain smelly food and rotting meat.
Locals are reportedly forced to walk into traffic to access the doctors and pharmacy next door in a bid to avoid the huge, stinking mess.
The local saoid he has complained to the council ‘but the problem remains’.
He said: ‘You’ve got rotten meat and food being disposed on the pavement outside the doctor’s surgery and houses.
‘People dump it all day long. It’s food waste and which leads to rodents and other pests and a horrible smell when you walk past.
‘There’s bin bags and cardboard boxes. It’s not locals who are dumping it but they are the ones who are affected.
‘It’s been ongoing for the last five years. The resident’s wall has turned black and mouldy due to the rubbish.
‘Hundreds of emails have been sent to Environmental Health and nothing has been done.’
He said the corner of Newport Road and Ladypool Road is blocked with so much rubbish that wheelchair users have to go into the road, and they cannot mount the pavement again because there is no dropped kerb.
‘I would like some sort of consideration from these people who are doing this,’ the resident added.
‘Have respect for the community, the area and planet Earth. People come from Manchester, Leicester etc to the Balti Triangle, what kind of image does this give them of the local area?’
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said: ‘Fly-tipping is a criminal and, often, organised offence. It is a crime that damages the environment that we all have to live and work in.
‘Responsibility sits with those who dumped this waste with no regard for the local community.
‘Where we have credible evidence, we will investigate and prosecute, as is demonstrated by a range of cases that have received widespread publicity in the Birmingham Mail and on Birmingham Live in the past.
‘We receive hundreds of reports of fly-tipping across the city every week and do everything we can to remove as much waste as possible and investigate the circumstances behind rubbish that is dumped.
‘Anyone with information on any cases of fly-tipping should contact the council online.’
The story comes after hundreds of raw chicken legs were dumped on the roadside in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, earlier in the summer.
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