A MAN has been fined for leaving rotting vehicles on a residential street.

Bobby Bajwa, 43, of Bowyer Drive, Cippenham was fined £1,100 and ordered to pay £1,102.75 in costs after he was prosecuted by Slough Borough Council for leaving cars and vans where he lived.

Mr Bajwa ran a vehicle repair business from home, but left a lot of the vehicles – some of which were accident damaged and leaking oil – in parking bays, on pavements and verges of Bowyer Drive. He also refused to remove them despite receiving a notice from the council ordering him to do so.

Richard Palacio, from the council’s neighbourhood enforcement team, said: “The vehicles Mr Bajwa left around Bowyer Drive were dangerous, insecure, often with large pieces missing and a major risk to public safety as well as being very unsightly.”

“He simply didn’t care about the effect his actions were having on the area and his neighbours.”

Mr Bajwa did not attend Reading Magistrates Court and was therefore found guilty in his absence.

Councillor Paul Sohal, commissioner for regulation and consumer protection, said: “Mr Bajwa made his neighbours’ lives a misery and his actions made them live in constant fear of noise, arson, criminal damage and for the safety of their children.

“This was not a neighbour taking up more than their fair share of parking spaces, this was systematic anti-social behaviour, using vehicles in a disgraceful state to torment local people and damage the local area in a way that could not be allowed to continue.

“I hope this serves as a warning to other people that behaviour like this will not be tolerated and we will take action against those who show no care for their neighbours and neighbourhoods.”

The council is now arranging removal of three vehicles.