A distressed mum has claimed that rats are running riot behind her house in an overgrown patch of land.
Joanne Gibson, 51, claims that the council refuse to maintain the dense and disordered land at the rear of her property.
Joanne states that the neglected wilderness is overrun with vermin, and that the unattended weeds are starting to grow underneath the decking in her back garden in Manchester.
According to Manchester Evening News, Joanne said: "This has been an ongoing problem for years.
"It's gone from being a really nice grass area to a total eyesore.
"I can't use my back gate any more because the weeds and trees are so overgrown.
"It's infested with mice and rats and people use it to fly-tip their rubbish.
"It's disgusting really."
Joanne, who lives with her son, Harrison, 18, claims to have made countless calls to Tameside Council over the years to no avail.
She and Harrison have attempted to clear it themselves, yet the overgrown area is too much to manage.
"They claimed for a while that it wasn't owned by the council," added Joanne.
"But we paid to check the land registry and it is owned by them.
"They sent some lads from the community pay back team down with strimmer's but it's gone beyond that.
"You can't strim overgrown trees. It's got to the stage where it needs sorting out once and for all.
"It's horrible and not what you want to look out onto from your garden.
"It's been years since they cut it back."
A Tameside Council spokesperson said: “We are investigating this further and will contact the resident with our findings.”
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