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OAP's rubbish ultimatum
Birmingham Mail
|April 01, 2025
COURT GIVES PENSIONER FOUR MONTHS TO CLEAR EYESORE PILE OF WASTE
IT is one of the Midlands' poshest villages, where homes sell for an average of more than £1 million.
But the views enjoyed by residents in leafy Tanworth-in-Arden, near Solihull, have been ruined by a pensioner who allowed a filthy pile of rubble and waste to mushroom on his land and ignored demands to clear it.
Plastics, metals and treated wood were among waste found on land at Summerhill Cottage.
This story is from the April 01, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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