Homeowner who built blockade to stop drivers parking in road plans to install a LAKE
08.08.2022 - 12:21
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A homeowner who built an ‘awful’ blockade on his road to stop school-run parents pulling up in front of his house now plans to turn a massive pothole into a lake.
Derek Woodacer has annoyed neighbours in Mosley Common, Tyldesley, with his schemes and homemade road-blocking measures, but says that he 'doesn't care' and claims that their disdain just makes him 'more determined to carry on'.
The 65-year-old dug a huge pothole in the road after a barricade that he built was removed and he says that he will now make it into a lake. Derek referred to the planned installation as 'Lake Como-nside' as a tongue-in-cheek nod to one of his favourite holiday destinations - Lake Como in Italy.
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“I have more plans in the future," he said. “The pothole now, I am going to make it into Lake Como-nside.
"I have upset enough people but I just don’t care now. I don’t know where this leaves me with the neighbours now. This just makes me more determined to carry on.”
Derek says he has been battling with parents doing the school drop off at Mosley Common’s St John’s Primary School since he moved to the road five years ago as he believes they shouldn’t be parking on his street. It has led to fights, vandalism, and complaints from neighbours - with one saying that his blockade could have prevented emergency vehicles and bin men getting through.
“I moved here five years ago and this is an unadopted road so the council is not responsible for it,” he added. “When I moved in I thought what the hell is this.
“The first week I saw a lot of people parking from the school. I felt a lot of abuse from parents when I told them they couldn't
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