A resident on a pothole-ridden road says HGVs and buses bouncing up and down his street are rattling his house to bits - leading to a huge crack in his wall.
Lee Boardman lives on a School Lane in Up Holland, West Lancs, and says Lancashire County Council's failure to repair the road surface is effectively resulting in house being torn apart. Each day, the property is physically shaken when HGVs and buses bounce down the road.
The prolonged impact, Lee says, has led to a huge crack in the gable end wall of Lee's home. He also believes the floor is coming away from the wall in his bedroom.
And Lee says his efforts to ask the council for help have only resulted in patch repairs. And he is now desperately asking for the problem to be properly addressed before the worst happens.
Lee has lived in the house since 1993 and says the state of the road and traffic conditions have got much worse in that time. He has made efforts to ask for help from the council and contacted Lancashire Constabulary over problems with cars speeding down the road but was left frustrated with the response.
He told LancsLive : "It's been ongoing for a while, just recently I decided to try to contact the county council with the feeling it would be a waste of time but you've got follow the rules. I started emailing around March.
"The state of the road is absolutely horrendous. They've been occasionally repaired over the years but just spot repaid. The holes are back within a couple of weeks."
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Lee regularly works from home in his role as a compliance analyst and from his office in the loft, he says he can feel the house shaking when heavy vehicles go past his house, outside which is a particularly badly damaged stretch of road. "When the HGVs go over, it's quite frightening really," he said.
"In our house, we don't keep anything on the windows because it just falls off. It's that bad. I'm worried about subsidence, we can see where the wall is moving, there's a crack in the wall. It's frightening, it really is.
Lee estimates the crack in the gable end to be around 40" in length and says it is now the only place where damage can be seen. Police and Crime Commissioner Andrew Snowden is among the officials who have visited the street to see the problem but so far no solution has followed.
And outside of rush hour, Lee says an extra problem is caused by cars failing to stick to the 30mph limit. He says there are regular crashes along the road as a result of speeding drivers, including one house which has been hit multiple times and another where a car crashed into an external gas pipe.
Lee is among those affected by dangerous driving as he was once forced to move out for six months when a stolen car crashed through the front of his house. As well as effectively leaving him homeless, the damage required £50k worth of repairs which took effort to ensure the insurance company covered.
He said: "It was a stolen car that was being chased by three of four police forces. They came off the M6, a car was coming up the road as the other car was coming down the other way. That car was hit by the stolen car and shunted into our house."
According to Lee, efforts to address the speeding problem have not progressed because "the police say it's the council's responsibility, the council say it's the police's". "You get fed up but the same time you know something needs doing," he added.
"I was in the lounge when the crash happened. When you hear the car speed now, you cringe. We were going to move out at one point, it got that bad."
With the speeding issues seemingly stuck in deadlock between the police and county council, Lee is first focusing on his continued to effort to have the road surface repaired. "All we're asking from the council is to come and have a look and do a proper resurfacing. The surface of the road is genuinely horrific. It's going to do something structural to the house."
A spokesperson for Lancashire County Council's highways department said: "We are currently investigating Mr Boardman's concerns on this matter, and we can confirm that we will respond in due course and as a matter of the utmost priority."
