Neighbours in a residential street were left disgusted after a 6ft-tall pile of rubbish was dumped on the pavement outside their homes.
The mountain of waste consisted of a headboard, clothes, cupboards, parts of a sofa and even a fridge-freezer.
Shaun McRobert, who manages the property from which the litter has been dumped, warned someone could ‘end up getting hurt’ by the rubbish, which is said to have been left on the pavement since last Friday.
The disgusting heap includes a headboard, clothes, cupboards, parts of a sofa and a fridge-freezer. One resident expressed concern over the pile being ‘too dangerous’ and attracting rodents
Parents with prams are being forced to walk in the road to avoid the pile of rubbish, said to be left by a previous tenant last Friday outside a property in Small Heath, Birmingham
Mr McRobert, 21, said: ‘People are being forced to walk into the road and speeding is a really bad problem here.
‘It’s an eyesore – having to walk past that every day is a joke.
‘There could be broken glass, anything inside of there, one little mistake and someone could end up getting hurt.’
The property manager blamed a previous tenant for dumping the rubbish, which has come from a single house, and previously said it would be removed by Wednesday evening.
Mr McRobert added: ‘I’m a victim, just like everybody else.’
Another 32-year-old resident, Bader, expressed his concern over the rubbish attracting rodents.
He said: ‘It’s really bad, we have trouble getting out of the house with the prams.
‘It’s going to attract rats, mice and it’s going to affect my house because I am the one closest.
‘It’s too dangerous and you have to walk in the road to get out, it’s really annoying.’
The landlord, who wished to remain anonymous, also blamed a previous tenant for dumping the rubbish when they vacated the property after living there for four years.
Birmingham City Council are ‘investigating’ the incident following reports from the public. The council said fly-tipping is ‘unacceptable’ and a ‘blight on our communities’
The landlord accused Birmingham City Council of ‘doing nothing’ to track down the previous tenant and ‘trying to put the blame’ on them.
The landlord said: ‘I’m disgusted by the tenants and what they have done but I’m also shocked by Birmingham City Council as they have done nothing to track them down.
‘The council have come to my door this morning saying it is my fault. They have done nothing to prosecute them. The council are trying to put the blame on me. They came out this morning to claim that I dropped the rubbish out in front of the house, which I haven’t.
‘It was not my rubbish. I made sure I put them straight this morning. I told the council that I will be prosecuting those tenants, with their help hopefully for dumping the rubbish out here in the first place.
‘They have vacated the house and left me in the middle. Prime Properties managed the property for four years. It should have been the tenants’ responsibility to move the rubbish, not to dump it on the pavement. Their agents just took the money from the tenants and didn’t even inspect the house. Four years of rubbish has been dumped on the street. They didn’t even bother looking at the house.
‘Not only that, I had to break the locks just get back into my property. I’m disgusted the council have just ignored it and let these people get away with it. Every time we used to come to the property to check on things she would hide. She would never open the door to let me in.’
A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said: ‘Following reports from member of the public, we were made aware of this incident – which is now being investigated.
‘As it is under investigation we cannot make any further comment in detail.
‘In 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.
‘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.’