Fire officers check bin room 'danger' to block residents

FIRE officers have carried out safety checks at an apartment block following complaints a bin storage room presented a ‘real danger to life’ for residents.

Images taken by Adelphi Wharf apartment block resident Toby Lynch, 38, appeared to show plastic bags full rubbish bulging out of the fire door on the bin storage room.

“There is a real danger to life and a massive safety breach,” he wrote in an email to the property management. “The bin shed is overspilling with rubbish and has now breached two fire doors.”

Around 500 people live in the Adelphi Street complex, which is managed by Xenia Estates and sits a stone’s throw from the University of Salford. But according to the firm, the blame for the piles of rubbish lies elsewhere.