A WOMAN has been left with a garden full of timber for nearly a month because the council has not cleared it up.

The five Leylandii trees, estimated to be about 30ft tall, were cut down with a chainsaw by her neighbour’s builders, so they could put up the scaffolding for a new single-storey extension built.

They had been due to be chopped down by the council anyway, so it is no great loss to Wendy Narbett, a retired assembly line worker who lives at the semi-detatched council property.

But she had not banked on having the fallen trees sprawled across her back garden for several weeks, and now she’s lost her patience.

Mrs Narbett, 61, of Cranmore Avenue, Park South, said: “My garden is full of trees. I phoned up and spoke to the chap in charge at the council. I explained to him what had happened.

“At the moment I’m stuck with not being able to use my back garden because I’ve got a pile of tress in it. I’m a council tenant, this is a council property, it’s down to the council.”

She said that back in July, before the builders felled them anyway, she had been told the trees would be down and cleared in six weeks because of new laws surrounding the height of Leylandii trees.

But Mrs Narbett said: “I think I’ve been extremely patient about what’s going on. But I am getting to the end of my tether.

“If nobody shows up on Monday, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

“They’ve got my phone number, and if they can phone me up and give me a date it’d be much appreciated.”

And Mrs Narbett may not need to blow her top after all.

A spokesman for the council said: “We’re sorry for the delay in removing these trees from the garden, and we will be in touch with our tenant early next week to make arrangements to remove them.

“From what we can gather, they were dumped there by builders doing work at the house next door, and as a result the cost of taking them away will now have to be met from the public purse.”