A couple say they are considering selling their house because of persistent flytipping near it.

When Anthony and Karen Compton bought their house in Lidget Green 16 years ago, it faced an open field where their children would play football and rounders.

But today the view from the Comptons' house in Northside Terrace is very different after years of it being used as a dumping ground.

One day this week Mr Compton came home to find six large fridges dumped opposite his house.

"The area has just become a dumping ground," said the 40-year-old dad.

"We came home at about 6.30pm to find these huge fridges just left in front of the house. They were very brave as they will have just dumped them in broad daylight.

"This whole thing has been going on now for years. We have seen mattresses, doors, you name it, dumped here."

Mrs Compton, 39, said their main reason for buying the property was to give their children somewhere to play. But today she will not let her three sons anywhere near the field.

"It is absolutely filthy down there and there is no way I would let my children play there," she said. "We moved here after the birth of our first child because we wanted to have somewhere nice for our children to grow up in.

"Now it is just getting beyond a joke. I used to be really proud of where I lived, but today I am sorry to say I am ashamed.

"It has got to the point where we have considered putting the house on the market and moving on.

"We have been living among this rubbish for years and we have just had enough.

"The problem has got worse as time has gone on as people now think it is an actual tip for waste to be dumped on."

A spokesman for Bradford Council agreed that the land near Northside Terrace had been heavily flytipped with mainly-domestic waste.

He said the land was privately owned so Bradford Council did not have a duty to clear it.

He said: "The company that formerly owned the land went into liquidation and the site is now in the hands of the Crown Treasury Department.

"We have liaised with the Treasury Solicitor with a view to getting the land cleaned up without success.

"The Crown has now been served with an abatement notice requiring the land to be cleared within the next seven days."