FIFTEEN bins have been left stinking outside a resident’s home in Bradford after council refuse collectors failed to pick them up last week.

Khawar Ahmed, of Bleinheim Road, in Manningham, said smells from the bins, many crammed to almost overflowing, are wafting into his home making them all feel ill.

He is also having to constantly move them to get his car our of his garage.

“This is not the first time the wheelie bins have not been collected. It is dreadful for us.

“We are the last house in the road and many residents put their bins outside our home so it is easier for the council to pick them up,” he said.

“On Tuesday they were not picked up. I phoned the council later that day and again on Thursday. They told me it was because the road was blocked and they could not get down.

“I have never known the street to be blocked. Sometimes there are cars parked down each side but other vehicles can get up and down.

“If there had been something blocking the road it would not have been there for long.

“Now I have the bins from the whole street outside my home. There are now rats and mice around and lots of flies. The smell is atrocious.

“My mother suffers from breathing difficulties and my dogs would also be suffering from this. One of my dogs has only just recovered from surgery. I think it is quite unfair.

“We have had numerous issues with the bin collection and were told they don’t have the capacity to collect it.”

Mr Ahmed said it was not the first time that their weekly refuse collection was not taken, but the council sorted the problem out themselves.

“It was around two months ago they were not collected on the day, but they sent out a small truck to get them because it was the big refuse vehicle that had broken down.

“This time, after two phone calls from me, they said they would not come until the following Tuesday. I asked them if they would come along and take the bins back to the homes and they said we could ask people to collect their own.”

The Telegraph & Argus approached Bradford Council for a response but it did not respond before going to press.

A spokesman did say unofficially that it was likely the bins would be collected before Tuesday because of the Bank Holiday.

The council is still pursuing a move to save more than £1.5 million annually by shifting weekly bin collections to fortnightly.

The move was first mooted in September last year and would result in alternate weekly collections for general waste and recycling waste.

Councillor Imran Khan, executive member for environment, sport and sustainability, said the idea was under consideration to try and save money.

To Mark National Zero Waste Week last year, he and three Labour colleagues joined the district’s bin crews.

The scheme will begin in 2017.