RESIDENTS were left furious when they spotted a Radcliffe skip hire company dumping building rubble outside their homes.

Jim Bancroft could not believe his eyes when he spotted an Abbey Skip Hire driver leaving rubbish from the company’s skip outside his house in Liverpool Road, Eccles.

But bosses at the company, based at Pioneer Mill in Milltown Street, said this was something drivers are forced to do on a regular basis for safety reasons.

Mr Bancroft, a 62-year-old writer, noticed the skip outside his home in December while builders refurbished an empty home several doors down.

Last week, when someone from Abbey Skip Hire came to collect it, he shook some of the rubbish out of the skip onto the road and left it there.

Mr Bancroft said he was shocked when, on telling the driver what had happened, he simply drove off.

He said: “I had nothing to do with why the skip was here in the first place, and I just want them to do the right thing and remove the rubbish but every time I have called I have had a rude response.

“The rubbish they dropped is dangerous – if a child ran into it they would be badly hurt.

“This company have felt free to deface the area where I live and could do the same to someone else.”

The director of Abbey Skip Hire, who declined to be named, said: “This is what you get when people think they can overload our skips by dumping their own rubbish on it.

“When we go to take the skip and it is too full we cannot take it on the road, as if something fell off and hit a car it would put people’s lives in danger.

“We get this every day. Residents of Liverpool Road threatened me verbally, so I will not be going back to collect the rest of the rubbish. They should get rid of it themselves.”

Mr Bancroft reported the flytipping to Salford City Council and a spokesman said the authority’s environmental department had called Abbey Skip Hire and told them to clear up the rubbish.

Councillor Gena Merrett, assistant mayor for housing and environment, said: “We have spoken to the company and arranged from them to clean up the waste as it is totally unacceptable to dump it on the streets.

“We will continue to monitor the situation and take further action if required.”

The spokesman added that the council receives more than 3,300 flytipping complaints every year and spends around £140,000 cleaning up and investigating illegal dumping.

Since it launched Operation Pandora last year, 24 people have been prosecuted for 30 offences resulting in fines of more than £26,000.