Manchester: ‘We’re forced to climb over rubbish piling up outside our homes’

Ms Geogheghan said she once followed a trail of fish heads into the alley that were “chucked in her yard”.

“There was a point where I’ve opened my back gate and you couldn’t even step out for the amount of rubbish that’s piled up,” she said.

“I’m angry because if we do get rodents, they [Manchester City Council] are quick to blame the landlords.

“What’s going on outside is now coming into our homes, that’s not a landlord issue, it’s a council issue and a community issue.”

A council spokeswoman said: “Some properties in Manchester do not have adequate storage space for individual wheelie bins and therefore they share bins in the passageway behind their homes.

“In this street in Abbey Hey, the communal bins are emptied three times per week and the amount of capacity should be sufficient for the amount of household waste produced”.

She urged residents to report anyone who did not dispose of items properly in the communal bins provided.