After three years of complaints, Gateshead Council has pledged to keep a street in Leam Lane free from mud - but some are sceptical about the proposed solutions.
According to Dorothy Steel, 66, a resident of Evanlade, the street is often caked in mud as grass verges are mulched by HGVs and residents parking outside their homes.
Mrs Steel said: "It's not just our house it is all the houses, it goes all the way up the road. The reason is our street is very small and when lorries come down they have got to come onto the grass verges and that turns it into mud.
