We live in the shadow of a crime ridden fly-tipped mountain of rubbish... every day is a nightmare

Neighbours surviving adjacent to mountains of rubbish accidental each time is simply a ‘nightmare’ with changeless sound and crime.

Shocked constabulary officers discovered the immense piles of discarded astatine the backmost of an aged fabric mill successful Radcliffe, Greater Manchester aft chasing a suspect.

Neighbours said the country is besides a fly-tipping magnet but thing compares to the mountains of rubbish astatine the back.

Mother-of-two Sandra Holmes, 43, said: ‘It’s a existent eyesore erstwhile you spot truthful overmuch rubbish and the constabulary look to beryllium present each the time.

‘The rubbish isn’t bully to look similar but it doesn’t truly smell.

‘However there’s besides sound coming from determination with cranes moving the rubbish and lorries coming and going each the time.

‘It’s a nightmare neighbour.’

Another neighbour, who did not privation to springiness her name, said: ‘There’s ever look to beryllium fires burning rubbish erstwhile you look.

‘And the sound is unspeakable – it’s not large seeing what erstwhile you look retired of your backmost garden.’

As good arsenic the trash mountain, officers besides stumbled connected 650 cannabis plants successful a gathering connected the site.

Bigger cannabis farms person besides been uncovered astatine Pioneer Mill and a antheral was besides changeable dormant successful 1 of the units.

Wholesaler Martin Dean’s concern has been successful the mill since 1989.

The 51-year-old said: ‘It was horrendous erstwhile they recovered the cannabis plants present but it’s not the archetypal time.

‘Legitimate businesses similar excavation present are getting a atrocious estimation conscionable from a fewer atrocious apples.

‘The rent is inexpensive but you get a batch of fly-tipping her too.

‘People thrust down and past conscionable dump soiled mattresses and each sorts of things.

‘We’ve had fires and floods from the adjacent River Irwell arsenic well.

‘But we’ve got precise small help.’

The mountains of rubbish belongs to a recycling concern called Radcliffe Polymers.

Norman Khalid, who works for it, said: ‘We are clearing it away.

‘There is excessively overmuch but we person lone conscionable taken it over.

‘There is nary odor and it is not dangerous. It is conscionable cleanable plastics.

‘You request to talk to the boss.’

However the ‘boss’ did not respond to MailOnline’s telephone oregon substance erstwhile we tried to interaction him.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) raised 'serious concerns' astir the situation astatine the mill aft chasing the cannabis workplace suspect.

A spokesperson said: 'We recovered this aft chasing a fishy implicit the onshore which raises superior concerns for the situation aft what we came across.'

Bury assembly said a 'multi-agency group' has been enactment unneurotic to tackle the rubbish.

The radical volition bring unneurotic GMP, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, nationalist protection, planning, gathering control, Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA).

At a assembly gathering furniture subordinate Sandra Walmsley said: 'Due to the complexity of the tract astatine Pioneer Mill determination are assorted enforcement responsibilities beyond the power of the council.

'Each enforcement bureau person their ain statutory and discretionary powers and responsibilities.

'This attack is enabling the assembly enactment with partners to coordinate tract appraisal and compliance.'

In 2023, an adjacent larger workplace was discovered astatine the aforesaid mill.

Pioneer Mill was built successful the aboriginal 20th period and is believed to person been the past mill successful Radcliffe to weave cotton.

The gathering was deed by a ample occurrence successful May 2022.

And ex-soldier Graham Redford blasted alleged cause trader Stacey Lloyd successful the caput with a almighty shotgun astatine a concern portion helium owned astatine the mill successful 2005.

Redford meticulously cleaned the unit, adjacent concreting implicit areas to guarantee nary humor could beryllium found.

He past dumped his assemblage successful a car footwear and acceptable it connected fire. Redford was jailed for 30 years for the murder.

However Redford inactive claims helium is guiltless of the gangland execution and has appealed.