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Residents of Belroyal Avenue in Broomhill Bristol, Friday 18 July 2025 who are up in arms with excessive fly tipping (including a boat) in the lane behind their homes(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n“This is supposed to be a public road with vehicular access, but it\u2019s just been neglected”Residents of Belroyal Avenue in Broomhill Bristol, Friday 18 July 2025 who are up in arms with excessive fly tipping (including a boat) in the lane behind their homes(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
People living in a road in South Bristol say an access lane that serves their back gardens and garages is now impassable – because of years of council inaction over regular reports of flytipping. The residents of the road in the Broomhill area of Brislington<\/a> say Bristol City Council<\/a> has neglected the lane, let it become too overgrown and people have dumped everything from logs to boats, blocking up their access.<\/p>\n They said that, as well as the issues with rubbish being dumped and access being blocked, they fear a fire could start and spread to threaten their homes – after someone set a dumped sofa on fire and it spread across a nearby field earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n Belroyal Avenue is a U-shaped road with two entrances off Broomhill Road<\/a> in BS4 that was built in the 1950s as part of the wider council housebuilding development. Around the back of the mini-estate is Belroyal Lane, which circles the back of the crescent, and is supposed to allow vehicular access to the back gardens and garages behind the homes.<\/p>\n But over the years, the area that backs on to Broomhill Infants School, and the part of the lane on the south side of the crescent has become overgrown, and a dumping ground for waste.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are people with caravans in their back yards, and people used to have cars in their garages, but it\u2019s so blocked up now there\u2019s no way they will be able to get their caravans out,\u201d said one resident, who declined to be named.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople can\u2019t reach their back gardens anymore, at least not with a vehicle, which is what that lane was originally supposed to be for. It\u2019s got worse gradually over time, and a lot worse in the last year or so.<\/p>\n \u201cSomeone just comes along and dumps wood chippings, logs, trees all over it, and we get all sorts of other stuff too. Someone has even dumped a boat there,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Wildfire blaze that threatened Bristol homes started deliberately<\/a>READ MORE: Fly-tipping blighting parks, country lanes and housing estates as \u2018law change needed\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n A group of residents told Bristol Live they have been reporting the issues to the police and Bristol City Council, and once or twice, a council worker has come to clear some of the dumped material at the entrance to the lane, but it is quickly replaced with more fly-tipped junk.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing is they\u2019ve let it get so overgrown in places that it\u2019s unusable. This is supposed to be a public road with vehicular access, but it\u2019s just been neglected. We\u2019re worried about what could be dumped there, and whether it\u2019s a safety hazard for our homes and there\u2019s an infants school on the other side,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n![\"Huge](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_BR_PG_180725broomhill-17.jpg\")
Huge piles of woodchippings have been dumped on Belroyal Lane, blocking vehicle access to the back of the gardens and garages for residents of Belroyal Avenue in Broomhill.(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
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Residents of Belroyal Avenue in Broomhill Bristol, Friday 18 July 2025 who are up in arms with excessive fly tipping (including a boat) in the lane behind their homes(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n