Distraught residents whose gardens and homes were buried under rubble after a wall collapsed in Nottingham are still living in "awful" conditions months later.
It's been 11 weeks since the huge wall collapsed in a "landslide" and smashed into gardens and bathrooms in the middle of the night in Spalding Road during a chaotic and terrifying night on February 3.
But the terrible damage remains, with one resident's bathroom roof caved in and huge boulders and soil covering the gardens of three homes affected.
A walkway which connects Spalding Road and Windmill Lane in Sneinton is still fenced off with bricks still piled high.
Norman Wheatley, 57, has lived in his home in Spalding Road for years and now fears every time rains or high winds blow in that more damage could rain down on his home.
Huge bits of brick fell into his garden and hit his conservatory, waking him and his family up.
"We're still in the same position. We still have tonnes of rubble in our gardens," he told Nottinghamshire Live.
"It's been absolutely awful.
"We just want to see the rubble cleared away. It's not our wall and we're the ones who have been damaged.
"The council said they are looking at securing the top of the wall where it collapsed and making it safe. We just don't know when that's going to happen so we do feel a bit forgotten about.
"My garden is unusable. We can't come out the conservatory."
Residents say the wall was built in 2003 and is owned by the properties above on Windmill Lane.
Another resident who has lived in the street all his life told Nottinghamshire Live how huge bricks caved in his bathroom that he built as part of an extension in 2004 for his mum.
The man, who just wanted to give his first name, Mohammed, said: "We just want it being made secure and the rubble clearing.
"There's lots of discussions going on with insurers and the council we have been told so it's difficult to know where the resolution is.
"We got the brunt of the damage.
"It was absolutely shocking that night. Our bathroom was filled with rubble and we have cleared what we can."
A Nottingham City Council spokesperson said: “These walls are privately owned and so the council is not responsible for their upkeep or repair – this rests with the property owners.
"However, we have agreed to take action on their behalf to make the area safe, and are in dialogue with their insurers to do our best to ensure they will cover the cost of any works we carry out so that the costs don’t fall to local taxpayers.
“We are awaiting confirmation from the insurers and hope that we can take action to make the Windmill Lane gardens safe very soon – this must be completed before anyone can safely take any action in the Spalding Road gardens below.
"We appreciate it is frustrating for residents and we are working on their behalf to try to resolve the situation as soon as we can.”
