claire warrender

The reek of rotting rats hits you as soon as you walk into the building.

Dead rats and droppings litter the rooms and the stench is hard to bear.

Thankfully I didn’t see any live rats during my daylight visit to the flats currently under renovation in Wellesley Road but I’m assured there are many and they are not scared of humans.

There are holes in the doors and at the bottom of the building where the determined rodents have burrowed their way in.

Locals have seen them scurrying along the street at night and horrified neighbours have reported them in their homes.

All this, it seems, because some people are simply too lazy to put their rubbish in a bin.

Decaying food, along with piles of other rubbish, have been flung over a wall allowing the vermin to feed and breed.

If the food source was cut off the rats would surely disappear in time.

Until that happens, the poor people living there are stuck with the problem.