Help - our street is full of rats and mice

​A Tuffley street has been infested with mice and rats.

That is according to Graham Roberts, of Ivory Close, who said the situation has got so bad at his next door neighbour’s home he is now unable to look after his own grandson.

“Because of all the mess over there we have got rats and mice everywhere,” said the 62 year-old.

“My wife went into our food cupboard the other day and found mice in there. They’re running riot. Some neighbours have even found them running up the net curtains

“I can’t even bring my own grandson into my house anymore because of all the mice, and of course I have had to put poison down.”

Mr Roberts usually looks after his grandson Rio, who is 18 months old, every weekend.

His neighbour, David Cameron, was recently ordered to pay £900 in fines and costs at Gloucester Magistrates’ Court for failing to tidy up his garden and he repeatedly ignored orders to put the garden of his home in order.

Mr Roberts, who has lived at his Ivory Close home for the past 15 years with his wife Jillian, claims that the garden is still unbearably untidy.

“You wouldn’t believe the state of it, it’s got beyond the joke now it really has,” he added.

“There are brambles, tyres, rubbish you name it.

“Everyone is up in arms here, there is a block of six homes and it is effecting us all.

“This needs to be sorted out. I’m a council tenant and if it was me I would have been evicted by now. He is a private tenant and he is still there.”

Mr Roberts added that he has spoke to Mr Cameron in the past and has an amicable relationship with him.

Mr Cameron is not believed to live in the house.

A Gloucester City Council spokesman said: “We have to give the resident a reasonable amount of time to tidy his property.

“The court expect us to give him a reasonable amount of time to tidy up.

“With regards to rodents, when we initially went to the house there was no sign of any rodents, but if there is a problem now we would urge residents to get in touch.”