AN angry resident has slammed housing chiefs for dumping container skips in front of his home for the last nine months.

Pete Lunnon says his life is being made a misery by the containers, which builders working on the near-by Perryfields estate use to store new windows and doors, as well as their rubbish.

Mr Lunnon says children break in to the skips at night, rubbish gets scattered everywhere and there have even been cases of youths sniffing the empty silicon containers in a bid to get high.

"I'm sick of it," said the 58-year-old lorry driver, who lives in King George Close, Sidemoor. "The skips get broken into. The kids use them as goalposts, swing on the doors and they even sniff on the empty silicon containers. I'm surprised there hasn't been an accident.

"The containers have been there nine months now and I've had enough."

The containers are on a car park opposite Mr Lunnon's house. He says children from the local estate use the car park as a playground, which has helped cause the problems.

One of the containers is used to store the new doors and windows. But it is the other container, which is used to store rubbish and old window frames, which is broken into because it is not being properly secured, says Mr Lunnon.

Children climb on to the top of the containers and they are noisy late into the night, a particular problem for Mr Lunnon as he is a long distance lorry driver.

A spokesman for Bromsgrove District Housing Trust, which has taken over the council's housing stock, apologised for any inconvenience caused before saying: "The skip with all the rubbish in it was moved last Friday and the one with the new windows and doors should be gone by the end of this week because the contract is about to come to an end."