Bradford Council is looking to take further legal steps against a householder who has failed to remove a lorry trailer parked illegally in his front garden.

A planning enforcement notice for the trailer, parked at a property in Leeds Road, Eccleshill, ran out last week. An application for retrospective planning permission has been turned down by the Council.

Dozens of residents have complained to councillors about the trailer, which has been parked at its current site, on the border of Bolton and Undercliffe and Eccleshill wards, since August last year. Part of a stone wall was knocked down to allow it to be reversed into the front garden.

Councillor David Gray (Lib Dem, Bolton and Undercliffe) said he had handed a petition signed by around 50 residents to the Council’s planning department.

“Our officers have said ‘remove it’ and now the time for him to do that has lapsed," he said.

“The time has come for the Council to remove it for him and then send him the bill.”

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