Cars have got stuck in it, so has the bin wagon and it's a magnet for children who want to play in it.

But a piece of churned-up grassland which lies at the bottom of Burlington Close in Bradford Moor is making residents' lives a misery.

Over a year ago a petition was handed to Bradford Council asking for the land to be asphalted over and made into a car park.

Dawn Barnes, a Bradford Moor Tenants' and Residents' Association member, who lives directly outside the bog, said she had petitioned the Council on numerous occasions since then without any success. She said: "That bit of land's neither use nor ornament. The kids are messing in it and cars are always getting stuck in it.

"When these houses were built they didn't have driveways for cars.

"So the problem is you have to park your car outside your house and if someone wants to get round you they have to drive on to the verge.

"We had a mini-cab stuck in there a few weeks ago and it took five other mini cabs to tow it out.

"And if you want to build your own driveway into your garden, you've got to get permission from the Council to lower the kerb which takes ages."

Simon Iles said the land had been bad ever since he moved into the street seven years ago.

He said: "The bin wagon is always getting stuck here because it has to drive on the verge to get past the parked cars. The road's just too narrow."

A spokesman for Bradford Council's Highways Department said the Bradford North Area Panel had funded a number of schemes to asphalt grassed verges in the area.

The spokesman added: "Burlington Avenue is one of a number where we are aware there is little on-street parking and it is on a list of streets where work has been requested.

"That list will be considered by the Area Panel but money for this type of work is limited."

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