Bradford Council has pledged to repair a Keighley woman’s fence – six months after it was demolished by a gritter.

Susan Chester has waited since February 22 for repairs to the fence and remedial work on a tree damaged in the crash.

Miss Chester's landlord, Incommunities, cut down the tree last winter but the remaining stump has begun to grow new roots.

She feared the roots, misaligned due to the angle of the stump, would damage her footpath or the next-door garden.

Miss Chester, of North Dean Avenue, Braithwaite, said the Council gritter swerved to avoid a car, smashed her fence and left the tree at an angle.

She said: “Incommunities cut down the tree because it was quite big and was leaning into next door's garden. It was just a stump but it's more than that now. It’s growing.”

Miss Chester said her children Olivia, 13, Sofia, eight, and 20-month-old Domenico could not play in her garden because there was no fence.

She said: “The main worry is the road. There are new houses being built across the road and there are lorries going up.

“It’s really annoyed me how the Council has just left it. I’ve phoned them several times and they say they haven’t forgotten me.

“I think I’ve been quite patient. I haven’t hassled them.”

Miss Chester last month finally got fed up of talking to Council staff and took the problem to one of her ward councillors, Jan Smithies.

Coun Smithies said: “She’s got little kids. She’s on a major bus route and she can’t let the children play in the garden.”

After the Keighley News last week got in touch with Bradford Council, officers contacted Miss Chester to arrange a home visit.

Miss Chester said: “They measured up for the new fence and decided what to do with the tree.”

A Bradford Council spokesman this week confirmed the visit, and added: “We said we’d get the fence fixed as soon as possible.”