| The tenant moved out of the ground-floor flat two weeks ago, leaving, it’s claimed, broken windows and rubbish strewn around the property.
But despite a number of requests to the city council over the past fortnight, the mess has not been cleared.
One resident, who wished to remain anonymous, called the Tele to complain about the state the place had been left in.
“I phoned the Tele as a last resort because I felt like no one else was listening,” she said.
“We’ve had lots of trouble with it. The tenant left about two weeks ago — but no one has done anything to clean up the mess.
“The window was smashed about two months ago and has been boarded up, but the rubbish is still left on the grass at the front.”
She said she had contacted the council a number of times but had found no one willing to take responsibility for cleaning up the mess.
She added that council workers had cut the grass of all the tenements on the street earlier this week, but had left the patch to the front of the flat in question because of the state it was in.
Another nearby householder said, “When they were here I was woken up in the middle of the night, with music, and young guys playing football at five o’clock in the morning, drinking and what not. They had visitors at all hours.
“When they left the windows were smashed in and there was rubbish everywhere.”
Rubbish was still strewn in the front garden when a reporter visited, with the front window of the flat boarded up.
A spokesmen for Dundee City Council said, “A housing officer has visited the property and arrangements are being made to deal with the problem.”
Last month Tayside Fire and Rescue warned that flat-dwellers in Dundee could be “dicing with death” if they left rubbish in and around communal stairwells, after a number of fires caused by discarded material being set ablaze. |
