Neighbour’s fury as man ‘advertises cottage as illegal rubbish dump’

The owner is setting rubbish alight to dispose of it, locals say (Picture: East News)

Angry neighbours are getting the hump after a man allegedly advertised his cottage garden as a dump — creating a mountainous tip on his doorstep.

Tons of waste — up to 6ft tall in places — is piled high outside the 120-year-old terraced home.

And the owner is setting rubbish alight to dispose of it, locals say.

Fed-up neighbours have called police, firefighters and council officials to get the dump removed.

But items — including a sofa, bed, fridge, digger tyre and mounds of building waste — remain outside the property.

Neighbour Ken Lees, 76, of Upminster, east London, told The Sun ‘huge’ fires are lit once a fortnight to burn the waste.

Locals have called the police and the fire service over the dump (Picture: East News)

A huge pile of rubbish has been dumped (Picture: East News)

Police have been called to the cottage (Picture: East News)

‘It is an illegal tip, he added.

‘I’ve lost count of the amount of times the fire brigade has been here.’

A homeowner whose garden is strewn with rubbish said the waste piled up after a relative died — but refused to comment further.

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