ANGER GROWS AT IRONY OF GARDENS BATTLE ON PERCY THROWER STREET

GREEN-FINGERED Midland folk living on a street named after legendary TV gardener Percy Thrower are fighting to stop developers bulldozing their lawns and flowerbeds.

- ADAM DUTTON News Reporter

Residents in Percy Thrower Avenue in Bonmere Heath, Shropshire, face losing a third of their back gardens, which many have tended for decades.

Landowner Housing Plus Group is building 19 affordable homes on a field behind the properties, and claims six residents have illegally encroached on their land and are now threatening to take it back.

The firm wrote to residents on May 21 giving them 28 days to clear their gardens “before taking action to remove the encroachment”.

The company claims the residents’ gardens have strayed beyond the legal boundary and onto land not belonging to them.

But residents say the developers are wrong and have lodged an appeal to temporarily stop the bulldozers.