Residents fighting a 15-year battle to ease noise and traffic problems have won support from the company at the root of the problem.

Residents of Broadway Avenue, Marsh Street and Hastings Avenue in Little Horton, Bradford, are furious about the increased use of lorries in the area.

And one resident has even said he is prepared to sell his home because of the problems.

Barry Roper, of SOS Recovery, agreed the firm's site was unsuitable and said he had been trying to minimise the impact and find a new location but without success.

He said that Bradford Council has not done enough to work with him and the residents to solve the problem.

Residents backed the company, based on Marsh Grove, last year when they presented a 50-signature petition to Bradford Council asking to move the entrance to Thornton Lane.

Mr Roper said: "We want to move to a bigger site and have been constantly looking but we need somewhere to move to."

Noor Hussain, 52, who has lived at his home on Broadway Avenue for 24 years, says that he is considering selling his house because of the problems caused by traffic.

Mr Hussain, a retired bus driver, said: "The house shakes every time the lorries go past and there are cracks in the house and holes in the road."

Ward councillor Ian Greenwood (Lab, Little Horton) is supporting the residents. He said: "This is a business which has long overgrown its size. It's more fitting for the Euroway Trading Estate."

A Bradford Council spokesman said: "We have had no application to relocate the access to the site.

"We have worked with SOS Recovery for a number of years to try to resolve the issues.

"We granted planning permission to create a new access from Marsh Grove in July 2004 but since then we have had no further application to relocate the access to the site."