My neighbour turned their garden into a JUNKYARD & council won’t do anything – it is infested with bugs and frogs | The Sun
RESIDENTS of a road in New South Wales have begged their local council to fix the junkyard house belonging to their chronic hoarder neighbours.
Those living in Berkeley Vale in the Central Coast are fed up with the nightmare tenants living on their road.
The house is stacked with anything and everything and items are now spilling out of the front yard and onto the road.
Neighbours have labelled it as unsightly and dangerous, with it resembling more of a dump than somewhere to live.
"I call it the junkyard, you know, it's like living next to a dump. You've got the rats, you've got the mess," neighbour Llewellyn told A Current Affair.
"It's just grown and grown and grown as they've run out of space and now it's just to the road."
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The father of two bought his home in Berkeley Vale in 2010 and the neighbours' yard was pristine.
But he claims that plenty has changed since and is desperate to get away from it.
Llewellyn said: "I just want to move out. I feel like a prisoner in my own home.
"I would like to move out and just be done with this, but with the amount I owe on the property I can't sell it for less than what it's worth."
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He also reveals that the horde is becoming increasingly dangerous due to all the different items being brought to the property.
"The carport's half taken down, but the verandah is rotting and I'm afraid it's going to collapse at any second, you know," Llewellyn said.
"I'm even fearful just standing here.
"In a storm situation, stuff does blow off and some of the stuff is heavy.
"It's machinery, it's got flammable liquids, oils, it's got all kinds of stuff going on."
Unfortunately for Llewellyn and the other neighbours, it isn't just the front yard that remains a mess.
The back is just as bad and even contains a filthy swimming pool.
"It's filled with rain water, and it's green, mosquitoes, frogs," Llewellyn said.
However, one of the tenants of the horror house, Jess, claims the hording is just a way of living.
She said: "This is just how we live. Everyone has a different way of how they're going to live.
"I don't want to be judged by that just because I'm out here living."
She even hit back at her neighbours and their complaints by saying that hording is a "business".
"It's not junk, it's actually worth money and it's our business. We make money off it. It has no rodents, no snakes in it, my cat goes all within the stuff," Jess said.
She did confirm, however, that the Central Coast Council ordered them to take down the carport.
And if push came to shove, they would clean up the rest of the mess if the council ordered them to.
Jess continued: "Our properties have been like this for the last 10 properties we've lived in, we've been hassled by council on every property we've been in, we aren't doing anything wrong."
She then blamed her "dysfunctional" family for all the mess and told neighbours to just put up with it.
She said: "Our family's dysfunctional, we'll try and friggin get to it.
"We have to put up with each other, so yeah, the neighbours can put up with us."
Unfortunately for Llewellyn, however, things have become so desperate that he is trying for a fence to be put in so he doesn't have to look at the horde.
He even admitted to "begging" the council to step in, but it came to nothing.
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"I don't want to beg, but I have begged. I've actually written the words 'I am begging you to do something about this'," Llewellyn said.
Central Coast Council have since confirmed that they have "taken a range of actions to address this ongoing issue."
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