A man has been booted out of his home for turning his front garden into a makeshift tip with tonnes of dumped rubbish amidst neighbours’ fury.
Steven Glover has now been banned from living at or visiting his rented property after a council was granted an official closure order at court, MailOnline can reveal.
He faces arrest if he enters the privately owned semi in a Stafford suburb.
Disgusted locals had demanded action as mountains of junk kept piling up over the past weeks and months, which they branded an ‘eyesore,’ a health hazard and fire risk.
Steven, 31 – pictured for the first time – has now been warned he faces footing the bill as the council has this week started the mammoth task of clearing the site which he had constantly refused to.
So far the garden has been half cleared of the unsightly junk but contractors working for the local authority had to break for a day or two because of a rat infestation.
They laid traps for the vermin to ensure they had perished before continuing the mass clean up.
Residents had claimed that he and his elder brother Jason Glover, who runs a waste removals company but doesn’t live at the house, had been dumping rubbish at the premises, and charging punters to unload too.T he siblings have both denied this.
Stacks of debris including rubble, sofas, mattresses, wooden panels, fridges, washing machines, carpets and black sacks swarm the large front garden and driveway in Peach Avenue in Silkmore – which has been criticised globally online.
It overspills onto the path leading to the front door, where a visible closure order is now taped.
Even the postman had refused to deliver mail there for fear of his own safety.
Stafford Borough Council took the case to court after numerous complaints from locals.
The authority was granted a closure order last week (Friday November 8) at Cannock Magistrates’ Court.
On the same day Mr Glover ‘reluctantly’ packed up his belongings and moved out of the house.
Locals say he has gone to stay with his mother.
A council spokesperson told how action was necessary after the tenant failed to comply with notices issued in June to clear the site.
The order states: ‘The notice is necessary to prevent the nuisance or disorder from continuing, recurring or occurring.’
It advises that the council will now ‘remove all waste items from the frontage and clear the area completely.’
It adds: ‘The council will now enter the land and complete works in default.
‘The council is entitled to recover the costs of the works in full. You will be provided with an invoice detailing the cost.’
The tenant and house owner, Rasvinder Singh Sudan, are now banned from entering the property for the next three months.
The council spokesperson explained: ‘All access to the property is prohibited except for emergency services and employees or nominated agents of Stafford Borough Council.
‘The owner and tenant can go with police on one occasion to collect belongings.’
He said that the authority had hired an outside contractor to clear the site and they hoped it would be completed by the weekend.
The spokesperson added: ‘The council has come in for a lot of stick from residents about all the rubbish piling up.
‘But it took time because we had to go through a legal process.
‘The bill could run into a few thousand pounds.’
Next door neighbour Linda Matthews, whose semi adjoins the house of horror, said: ‘Steve reluctantly packed all his stuff up last Friday night and has gone now.
‘He feels really deflated because he’s got nowhere to go so has gone back home to his mum.’
The retired carer told MailOnline: ‘I am disgusted by what I see from my house day in, day out. It is a b*****y eyesore’ and, until now, no one has been doing anything about it.’
The furious gran, 68, said: ‘It is embarrassing to live here and all the neighbours are up in arms and complaining. It’s a health risk to us all and the man living there. It lets the street down, which used to be a nice place.’
Mrs Matthews added: ‘Steve is no angel, but he’s alright. He should have cleared up the site, he tried to but didn’t do a very good job and a few people kept fly tipping.
‘We’ll all feel happier when the junk and all the rats have gone.’
She said environmental health officers have laid rat traps and have started clearing up the site amidst getting rid of the vermin.
The mother-of-two, who suffers from health issues, recently staged a silent protest outside the front of the house, sitting on the seat of her mobility walker.
She added: ‘In the past the bloke who lives there got some mates to help clean the mess up and for a short while the pile got smaller.
‘But the next minute it has grown again and now loaded up. The pile is huge and svit’s right outside my house which I keep neat and tidy.
‘There’s all sorts dumped there, you name it, it’s bound to be there!
‘In some of the black sacks they founders faeces and used condoms and the smell was horrendous. Not surprisingly, there were rats running around.’
Another resident told how fires often broke out at the illegal garden tip, saying: ‘There’s an accident waiting to happen.’
Cake maker Sasha, who declined to be fully named, claimed that the tenant was responsible for the ‘revolting mess.’
She said: ‘I first complained to the council a year ago but they are doing absolutely nothing to stop it.
‘In May or June they did issue an order for the householder to clean the site up bit he didn’t.
‘I’ve given the council so much grief over it because it looks, awful, it is dangerous and a health hazard.
‘The council has been absolutely atrocious.’
Sasha believes rats from the property have now plagued her home.
She said: ‘I have spoken to the council as I believe I have rats in my property and was informed I would have to pay for pest control, as will any resident that has the same issue.
‘We will have to pay £86.70 each for pest control which I think is ludicrous when the council has allowed this to continue for so long.’
The neighbour, whose home overlooks the residential tip, added: ‘You daren’t complain to the householder, we are all too scared.
‘A young male neighbour posted about it on social media and he got so many threats.
‘They’ve broken so many rules and it’s ludicrous that nothing is ring done.’
She told how the fire bridge had been called out numerous times, explaining: ‘The householder starts burning junk, and just the other day we heard a massive explosion.
‘They had set fire to part of the rubbish which must have been toxic, and it exploded and then imploded.
‘Even the postman stopped delivering to the house.’
Before the closure notice, followed by the order, were issued, Mr Glover had denied being responsible for the mountain of trash, insisting: ‘It’s not my fault.’
He said: ‘People have been fly tipping in my garden and I have proof.’
Speaking to MailOnline exclusively, he said: ‘I could remove the rubbish but why should I pay to do this when random fly tippers are responsible. It’s not my rubbish.’
‘This is giving me a mental break down.
‘People have been fly tipping in my garden and I have proof.
‘Just the other a week a lady dumped a mattress in my garden, then a man dumped two fridges.
‘The council don’t want to help.’
His brother Jason, defending his sibling, said: ‘It’s not us! Blame the illegal fly tippers.’
The dad-of-four, 35, claims they have been ‘wrongly named’ by neighbours as the culprits, saying: ‘We have nothing to hide, other people have committed the crime.’
Mr Glover senior, who runs Staffordshire Waste Removals, revealed that he had now been receiving death threats which he has reported to police.
He whole heartedly agreed with locals, saying: ‘The place looks a mess!’
He said: ‘But it’s not me or my brother responsible for this – it’s fly tippers and something should be done to stop them. It’s all other people!
‘Everyone’s been fly tipping there, and we have CCTV evidence which we have given to police.
‘It’s nothing to do with me, or my brother. He lives there, I don’t, but we’re both feeling threatened.
‘There’s been threats on my life, death threats, and police are involved.
‘People are taking advantage of my brother, he’s vulnerable.’
He added: ‘I’ve been running by business for six years and it is completely legit, fully licensed and has five star reviews.
‘On Facebook 500 people have stuck up for me.
‘These accusations are running my mental health down.
‘I work really hard as a sole trader and sub contract work out.
‘My brother is really upset by all of these accusations, as I am.’
Both brothers denied paying people £20 to tip their own garbage in the garden.
Councillor Ian Fordham, Cabinet Member for Environment at Stafford Borough Council told MailOnline: ‘I hope this brings an end to the misery this person has brought to the residents of Peach Avenue.
‘It was crucial that we had the proper legal process in place to not only get this unsightly mess removed, but to ensure it did not happen on this land again.
‘We have secured a closure order from the courts that bans anyone, including the tenant, from stepping foot on the property.
‘If they do they can be arrested. We have arranged for the house to be boarded up and for this significant amount of rubbish to be removed – and we will be billing the tenant and owner for the cost of doing that.
‘We will be working with the owner to make sure the house can be brought back into use and become a positive addition to the street.
‘Thank you to the police and other partners for their help in making sure we got the right outcome for the neighbours and we will work with residents to address any ongoing concerns they may have.’
