A resident who constructed an 'awful' blockade on the road in front of his house to stop school-run parents parking there is now planning to turn a huge pothole into a lake.
Derek Woodacer has enraged neighbours with his extreme road-blocking measures in Mosley Common, Tyldesley, but says that he 'doesn't care' and claims that their annoyance only makes him 'more determined to carry on'. After a barricade he built was torn down, the 65-year-old dug a massive pothole instead - and now wants to make it into a lake, Manchester Evening News reports.
Derek has dubbed the project 'Lake Como-nside' as a tongue-in-cheek reference to to one of his favourite holiday spots - Lake Como in Italy. He said: “I have more plans in the future.
