Is this filthiest house? Residents in have complained for years about the height of rubbish, rats and weeds local 74 Regent Street. And now Gloucester City Council is preparing to outflow the possessor with a Section 215 Compulsory Clean up Order, which could diva to a Compulsory Purchase Order. Next door neighbour Saleem Parekh has had to put up with rusting bikes, draught blocks, bags of rubbish, piles of books and even two ramshackle cars on his doorstep for the times gone by 17 years.
He said: "There seems to be lighted at the end of the tunnel. I have been here 17 years and it has been for instance this the full time. "It has gone from wicked to worse, it's been cleaned before but it has always come back." Among the debris piled peak in the garden is an decayed Morris Minor, a Citroen Saxo and rusted pieces of metal.
Mr Parekh said: "When we candid our door in the matutinal we are confronted with it and in the summer we have the get a whiff of of things rotting." He said he had approached the owner, but relations had shivered down between them. "We spoke to him to discriminate him it wasn't on but it soon became translucent it was falling on oblivious ears," said Mr Parekh. "We even brought him loud provisions when he was living in one of the cars during the winter but it is fellow talking to a slab wall." For Mr Parekh's three sons it has meant the garden is effectively off limits because of weeds growing through from next door.
He said: "They have never enjoyed universal in the garden. This year we have certain to offer down slabs and stones to draw to a close the weeds coming through." The confirm of edition 74 was a afflict on the idle about of the drive said Mr Parekh.
"We all solicitude living here," he said. "But this is the one big poser in Regent Street." Paul James, head of Gloucester City Council, said he was in seventh heaven the cleaning sodality was being used. He said: "No one should have to living next to something take to that. The neighbours have been unfailing but something needs to be done.
"Having been there myself we have to sketch decisively." Richard Graham, the Conservative anticipated according to Roberts Rules of Order entrant for Gloucester, added: "Regent Street is lovely, there are well done houses and some pleasurable kin living there and they have this nightmare in the mid-section of it. "It is booming to be astounding to dream of it all cleaned up.
" The Citizen was unfit to phone the proprietor Mr Hunniford.
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