A 'MONSTER' pothole is more of an outdoor pool than a dint in the road according to one Bury resident.

According to Neil Dandy the pothole lies in an unadopted road meaning the council does not have responsibility for repairs.

Mr Dandy, aged 42, estimates the pothole in Walshe Street is half a foot deep and 15 feet long, with exposed cobbles in it.

He said: "It's Bury's largest outdoor pool and the council won't fix it because they don't know who owns the road.

"They put golden flower pots 800 yards up the road and won't touch this monster pothole."

Mr Dandy, who lives in an end terrace in Tenterden Street, is worried about the effect water collecting in the pothole is having on his house and expressed concerns people could injure themselves.

He said: "The water from the hole is being sloshed into my air bricks and up my wall. All that freezing water could take the lime out of my mortar and it's going to be deteriorating my house.

"There must be 200 cars use that road every day and me and my wife park on one side of the road, which forces other cars to have to go through that pothole.

"The council are just saying they don't own it and they aren't doing anything about it."

Homeowner, Mr Dandy is frustrated by the council's lack of movement on this issue and pointed out the road has previously been tarmacked and had yellow lines painted on it.

He and his wife, Vanessa moved there in 2001 and Mr Dandy said the first two years he lived there the council did carry out repairs.

He said: "I have spoken to the head of engineering and was told to put three bags of stone in it myself!

"I don't want to pour concrete into it because I don't know anything about roads. The first two years they would come and do it but they're are saying it's down to austerity cuts and they can't come.

"For the effort it would take them you just think it's their moral obligation to do the right thing by one of the people that live in the area.

"It's just getting worse and worse. I have swept all down there myself and put all the stones back and within a day all the stones are back on the path.

"I want it tidy but I'm more bothered about my house and people and their cars.

"What if someone fell in it and broke their leg? You can even see the cobbles underneath and there is big iron grate that's blocked."

A spokesman for Bury Council said: "We have a duty to maintain adopted roads at public expense. (Under the Highways Act 1980). We have searched all our records, and those held by the land registry, and this section of the road is definitely not adopted.

“However, if the public have access to unadopted roads, we have the powers to install, for example, parking restrictions. (Under the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984).

“Parking restrictions were installed on Walshe Street as part of a residents’ parking scheme, which was requested by the residents themselves due to the number of cars parking in that area.

“While we appreciate Mr Dandy’s concerns, we must spend our limited budget on maintaining adopted roads as we are legally bound to do. We believe Bury residents would want us to do this, rather than spend money on maintaining roads we are not responsible for."