A FRUSTRATED businessman has called on Bradford Council to remove four large containers of rubbish dumped opposite his business more than two years ago.

Steve Hobson said the plastic containers, which are full of rubble, a mattress, bedding, bottles and tins, were an eyesore and attracted more fly-tipping.

The general manager of Panda Engineering, in Parry Lane, Bowling, said he had complained to the local authority "four or five times".

He has even offered to use his company's forklift truck to move the containers onto council vans if staff come out to remove them.

The Council has now agreed to remove the containers "as soon as possible" after speaking with the owners of the land behind where they are dumped.

Mr Hobson said the containers had been left so long that they had grass and weeds growing out of them.

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"It's an eyesore," he said.

"I'm frustrated by it. I just want it moved.

"I've made four or five phone calls to the council about it. They have been notified about it enough times. They have records relating to it. Nothing seems to be done.

"If it was the other way round and I left rubbish outside my house, the council would have fined me for it.

He said passers-by were using the containers as bins.

"It brings down things when you are trying to run a business," he said.

"I look out at it every morning, day in day out. It is right opposite our premises.

"When you are trying to gain customers and they turn up and it looks like a bombsite. It does not look good."

Mr Hobson said a metal fence had been built since the containers were dumped, which now separates one of them from the other three.

A Bradford Council spokesman said: "We are looking to remove these containers as soon as possible and will be speaking to the owner of the land behind the containers to notify them."

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The Bowling ward was flagged-up as a flytipping hotspot in 2014 when the Telegraph & Argus revealed the areas the Council was most called to about the problem.

In September 2014, Ian Pattison, who runs Bower Green Ltd, off Leeds Road, Bradford, said he was considering leaving the city because of fly-tipping problems.

It was the second time he had made the threat due to the rubbish-dumping problems which he said gave a bad impression of Bradford.

The Council asked anyone who witnessed fly-tipping to note down the times and dates and any registration numbers of vehicles involved.

"If the rubbish is on Council-owned land, we would clean it up as quickly as possible while at the same time trying to find any evidence that would help identify the culprit," a spokesman added.