It might look all finished from the outside – but there’s still a lot of work to do on this house.

At least there seems no danger of it falling on people, which is an improvement on its previous state.

The six-bedroom house in Timberdine Avenue off the Bath Road in the south of the city has been the pet project of Councillor Allah Ditta for nearly four years

He received planning permission to convert a three-bed detached house, which belongs to his daughter Parlen Akhta in 2013 – and after a saga which nearly saw the city council demand it be demolished on safety grounds – there is now a house built.

Well – the shell of a house at least.

Councillor Ditta said: “The outside is finished but there’s a lot of work which is needed inside.

“The internal walls are up, but everything else needs doing- all the plastering and skimming and electrical work.

It will still take quite a long time before anyone can live in it.”

Mr Ditta took on the project to totally rebuild the house for his daughter and is doing most of the work himself. With his job running an Islamic funeral business and his duties as city councillor for Cathedral ward, it means he can’t very often get to the site to progress the house.

He said: “I get along once or twice a month and get on with something – but it’s very hard to get the time to do more often than that

“People are cursing me to get on with it, but it’s just going to take time.”

The transformation of the three bedroom-house into a six-bedroom, two living room residence has included plans for a below-ground swimming pool.

Mr Ditta said: “That’s been dug out – but it hasn’t been lined or anything.”

While he says he has no regrets in undertaking all the work himself - it hasn’t been an easy ride for Mr Ditta, even to get to this stage.

For a while the house had no roof or back and was seen as so unstable that it could have fallen down at any time.

Worcester City Council threatened to have it demolished within 48 hours at one point, saying that it caused a significant danger and also took out a court order against its former mayor to force him to make the foundations, which had become dangerously overloaded, safe.

The enforced demolition was only prevented by pulling down what was left of the structure at the back, leaving just the front walls and a floor supported by metal poles.

There were even suggestions that Channel 5 TV had been in contact with Mr Ditta, hoping to feature his project on a ‘houses from hell’ type documentary.

Neighbours have also been vocal in their concerns with the state of the place – and the time that it has taken to get to this relatively respectable condition.

Mr Ditta said: “I don’t know what other people think of it. I don’t have time to speak to them. I come along when I can and go inside and get on with what I can."