A company which was fined for dumping a huge metal container in a Bradford beauty spot has finally moved it - to another illegal spot less than half-a-mile down the road.

Furious residents today hit-out at the owners of the ugly container which is now at the foot of gardens in Harehill Road, Thackley.

Bradford Council confirmed Wardour Limited, of Douglas, Isle of Man, has no planning permission to leave the container there, even though it owns the land.

And planning chiefs warned director John Anthony Booker that it would serve another enforcement notice on the company if it failed to move the container.

When the container was left in Windhill Old Road, Thackley, Wardour refused to shift it, even when an enforcement notice was served.

The firm was eventually fined £1,000 by Bradford Magistrates on December 19 and ordered to pay £1,210 in costs, before moving the container to its current location.

Trevor Baguley, 50, who lives near the current dumping site described it as "a real eyesore".

"I think it is quite bad it has been able to do this again, but I suppose the Council can't stop it unless they follow it around."

And neighbour Karen Mayhew, 46, pictured, added: "I am not very happy because I look right on to it from my house. I don't think he would get planning permission for it to be there, so I would like it moved as soon as possible."

Today Councillor Ann Ozolins (Lib Dem, Idle) said the last fine had not been high enough to dissuade the firm from flouting the law. "Because it is not our land, all we can do is enforce the removal of the container again and try to help the residential amenity of the people that live there," she said. "This man knows all about the planning system and it is frustrating that we have to have a long legal battle to get him to move it again."

A spokesman for Bradford Council said: "We have written to the company and given them 28 days - until February 17 - to move it. If this is not done, we will consider serving another enforcement notice to secure its removal."

Mr Booker said it was a "technical matter" whether the container required planning permission, and said he did not know that residents were unhappy.

"We have got a planning application in and we will have to modify that," he said. "We will go through the proper process."