A park group has accused a council of creating a “serious health and safety hazard” by storing waste, including dog mess, at a disused plant nursery.
The Friends of Graves Park say Sheffield City Council’s use of the former Norton Nurseries site is “unacceptable and illegal” and that the authority has ignored its requests to stop.
In a letter to the council, charity chair Caroline Dewar said: “The stench has been incredibly bad during the recent hot weather [and] has to be tolerated by local residents, passers-by, and people working on the site.”
Sheffield City Council, which will hear an application to licence the site until November later this week, said it had been looking for another site for its depot operations.