'GIANT FRIDGE' IS GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER BY ITS FED-UP NEIGHBOURS

FAMILIES are fuming after construction started on a 280ft warehouse towering over their homes and gardens.

- ED CHATTERTON News Reporter

Angry homeowners in Nechells say the huge metal frame which looms over their properties is growing bigger by the day.

The “eyesore” structure will eventually be a 285ft x 114ft cold storage unit at Wing Yip - the UK’s biggest Chinese supermarket chain.

But local people claim they were never consulted and have been left angry by the size of the warehouse.

And they say their lives have been made hell by the building work and fear once finished, it will block out sunlight and devalue their properties.

Dad-of-three Imran Shaban, 40, said: “They said in the one and only letter they sent us that it was going to be a indoor refrigerator - so it’s basically a giant fridge dwarfing our homes.

“There’s only my garden and then a railway line separating us from it, looking out my window it just looms over the house.

“They can be drilling early in the morning, the noise can be bad, I’m concerned about pollution too.

“We've got the Star City entertainment complex down the road - it’s like they are building another one of those.