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The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door S08E05 (27 Sept 2021)
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00:01You can't control who moves in next door.
00:05You've just attacked me.
00:07You can never really know what your neighbours are capable of.
00:12When disagreements get out of control.
00:15I can't stop people walking through it.
00:17Didn't say that.
00:18That is the most disgusting thing you can do.
00:21Things get ugly.
00:25Worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
00:27Absolutely.
00:28And threats turn violent.
00:31I came in here.
00:32I grabbed this knife.
00:34He's going, I'm going to kill him.
00:35I'm going to kill him.
00:39This time, in Derbyshire, an argument over noise turns into a war of accusation, counter-accusation and recrimination.
00:49You do not want to be hearing undesirables turning up.
00:54Gainey was saying I was homosexual and I go dogging.
00:57And the residents of a picturesque Welsh town are hit with seismic sounds.
01:03Oh, my God.
01:06I don't know if it was a barb.
01:08It was like a big explosion.
01:10Smells.
01:11The smell is worse than rotten eggs.
01:12It makes you sick.
01:14It makes you literally sick.
01:16And vile vermin.
01:20When a local farm is transformed into a recycling centre and quarry.
01:26That means, then, we've got another 20 years of hell, as far as I'm concerned.
01:39This picturesque village in the heart of Derbyshire, boasting rolling hills and lush countryside, is home to 31-year-old
01:48Aaron Lang.
01:50Six years ago, he was in the market for his first home when he snapped up this spacious three-bed
01:56semi on a sleepy street.
01:59His little slice of paradise.
02:03So, I bought this when I was 26.
02:06Lovely house.
02:07Nice views over Chesterfield.
02:10And I love it.
02:13So, this is what attracted me to the area.
02:16It's beautiful.
02:17We've got the Peak District up there, going out towards Chatsworth House.
02:21We've got the moors here, all these woodlands.
02:25And if you go high enough up here, you can also see Chesterfield and surrounding areas.
02:31It's just a beautiful place to live.
02:33Quiet.
02:34Tranquil.
02:36It's lovely.
02:38As director of an electric fencing company, Aaron is a rabid home improvement fan.
02:44Transforming his property for maximum fun.
02:47So, this is my garden.
02:49This is my pride and joy.
02:51We've got a model railway here.
02:54So, I always wanted a model railway as a kid, but my mum would never let me have one.
02:57So, I always said, when I get my own house, I'm going to have this.
03:03As a DJ by night, Aaron's a showman.
03:06And that extends into his DIY star attraction.
03:10A water slide.
03:14I used to sing regularly at my local pub.
03:17I used to do it for a living.
03:18And I do enjoy singing and seeing people have a good night and get up and dance and spend
03:23more money at the bar.
03:24And that's what it's all about.
03:27I sing all sorts of things.
03:28My main one is probably Meatloaf.
03:31I'd do anything for love.
03:32I'm not going to sing for you now.
03:34It'll sound ridiculous.
03:37I wouldn't like to say it was the best house on the street, because then I'd sound a snob.
03:42But I think it's definitely a good contender.
03:47But Aaron's perfect house, on his perfect street, isn't quite as perfect as he'd like.
03:54So, as you can see, lovely, peaceful neighbourhood.
03:58Everything you could ask for, except that neighbour there, Gaynor.
04:04Directly opposite Aaron lives a mum of two, Gaynor Lees, who's lived on the street her entire life.
04:11So, when I first moved in, I met Gaynor.
04:14Sent all normal.
04:16Two lovely kids.
04:18She went to work, come home like everybody else.
04:20Everything sent fine.
04:22But as the summer months approached, Aaron says the aspects of Gaynor's lifestyle began to niggle his nerves.
04:31A typical Saturday afternoon entertainment is Gaynor sat in the garden, the kids playing on the street.
04:38Loud music playing, drinking, lots of smoking, cars turning up.
04:44And basically, just a really bad impression of the street, if you was an onlooker or a passerby.
04:56The music's loud.
04:58It's not necessarily a vocal song, but it's generally bass-based music that I class as chavvy, clubland, Wigan Pier
05:09type music.
05:14She's welcome to listen to what music she wants.
05:16I'm not judging her on that music.
05:19But at 11 o'clock at night, 12 o'clock at night, you want to relax and go to bed
05:25because you've been at work all day.
05:27It wasn't just loud music disturbing Aaron's peace and quiet.
05:31You do not want to be hearing an undesirables turning up, boy racers, racing exhausts, turning up in cars outside
05:41her house.
05:44Gaynor says the car noise was nothing to do with her, but admits to enjoying socialising in the street.
05:50There were probably a lot of that going off because I, in one, I have friends, they don't.
05:56So, yeah, during the summer times, everyone came to my house for barbecues, neighbours, we went there for barbecues.
06:04Yeah, mine, because I've got a big back garden, as you can see, the same size as my front garden,
06:11everyone just comes here.
06:13But Aaron says it wasn't just the street sounds and the rowdy gatherings that began to encroach on his enjoyment
06:18of his dream home.
06:19I could smell cannabis, I know what a joint looks like and it clearly happens, the smell, through people that
06:30have visited the property who have also told me and also go round to the property for a smoke of
06:38cannabis.
06:41I thought, what the hell is happening? Where have I just moved to?
06:50Concerned about illicit drug use, Aaron contacted the authorities, but Gaynor told us the police found no evidence of drug
06:57use at her home.
06:59He cannot be talking to you about this sort of accusations when he's already reported me to the police about
07:04this.
07:05And the police have been here and everything's been cleared and there's no, nothing going off, obviously, there's no troubles.
07:13Now, total crap.
07:15Coming up, street wars.
07:17Shut up, you fat bastard.
07:19Lead to shocking sexual allegations.
07:21Janie was saying that I'd slept with one of her friends.
07:25And when a Welsh dairy farm is transformed into a recycling centre, the residents feel under attack.
07:32Oh, God.
07:33I don't know if it was a bomb or something, it was like a big explosion.
07:43Nestled in the idyllic Welsh Valleys is the small rural town of Geclygair.
07:50It's been home to Mark Roberts for his entire life.
07:53We've got surrounding mountains, I mean, you've got the fields behind, which you could go for a walk with a
07:58dog.
07:58You've got the Pinalta Park.
08:00And you also know you've got the Taft Trail going through.
08:03The people are warm, welcoming, and you couldn't get better neighbours.
08:08Mark grew up in this house where he now lives with his wife, Tracy.
08:13A spacious three-bedroom semi on a generous-sized plot, with an impressive view of the surrounding area.
08:20Just going to unlock these a sec.
08:22And Mark is proud of his recent modifications.
08:27Obviously, I'm bringing the garden into our living room, and it's fabulous.
08:33This is our patio area, as we call it.
08:37There's a barbecue there.
08:39I do love my garden, and I love where I live, and I also love my home.
08:44Born and bred in Geclygair, Mark was determined to keep his house,
08:48and the surrounding area as it's been since he was a little boy.
08:52Well, the part of growing up here, you had so many friends.
08:56Everybody was friendly in the village, and it was great.
08:59Well, the common was basically right behind my back garden.
09:02You've just got this enormous field that you can literally walk for miles and miles.
09:08We used to have cows grazing on the common.
09:10The cows would be around me, and that's how close the cows would come up to us.
09:16And I used to love it. It was fantastic.
09:18For the last 100 years, the land Mark's talking about has been owned by the Price family,
09:23and used to graze cattle for their dairy farm.
09:27The Price's were good farmers.
09:29I know they have got award-winning cattle.
09:31They were known to the community.
09:33Basically, they got on with their business, and we got on with ours.
09:37But all that changed.
09:39Like many farms, the Price family were looking for opportunities to expand and diversify.
09:44And to the horror of Mark and the local residents, part of that farm was transformed into a gigantic waste
09:50recycling plant,
09:51operating under the company name Brin Group.
09:59Mark's idyllic life in his idyllic town, all of a sudden, was anything but idyllic.
10:06Since the day of open, it's been disgusting.
10:09We've got this beautiful area, and sometimes, when you have the smell, it's...
10:14It's... Honestly, it's horrendous.
10:16It's worse than rotten eggs. It's disgusting.
10:20For someone who loves nothing more than dining outside,
10:23the rancid smell wafting into his garden began to have a huge impact on Mark's life.
10:29You're sitting there enjoying your steak or whatever, your sausages, your beef burgers,
10:34and then all of a sudden, the smells come over, and you think, oh, my God.
10:37And it is. It makes you sick.
10:40It makes you literally sick.
10:41I can understand maybe farming is not the future because the money is not there,
10:46but to put this on someone's doorstep is not acceptable.
10:52Paul Price and his daughter Jennifer, who manages the recycling plant,
10:56admit there was an issue with producing smells.
10:59But they say since spending millions updating the machinery,
11:03the stench that the residents are complaining about is coming from the farm,
11:07which has been there for over 100 years.
11:09At the end of the day, we're a large dairy herd cow smell.
11:15You will smell the cows in the village.
11:18And they always say that this is a rural area and they're fine with the rural smells,
11:24and yet there are a lot of complaints about what is cows.
11:28They won't accept it's a rural smell.
11:31But as Mark's neighbours expand their operations...
11:34There it is, look, there it is.
11:36..the villagers face vile vermin...
11:40..and monstrous mock.
11:42All my towers are full of seagull crap.
11:46Big, massive drops on them.
11:48Because it's around us, you can't even put your washing out.
11:56In Derbyshire, accusations of loud parties and drug use
12:00had got relations between Aaron Lang and neighbour Gaynor Lees off to a bad start.
12:10The reoccurrence of this every night was starting to get me down.
12:19But things were about to escalate when handyman Aaron met Gaynor's boyfriend.
12:26Just trying to concentrate, hanging this new painting on, I'd had to level.
12:33And I heard this commotion and I thought, what the hell is going on now?
12:41I looked out the window, and I can hear all this noise, and I thought, this can't be real.
12:47So I walk out here, the current boyfriend at the time, was quite influenced by alcohol,
12:53and shouting abuse at Gaynor, and she was shouting it back.
12:58Fuck off, then!
13:00Stop, then!
13:01That's nice!
13:02And I'm looking round thinking, people's kids are playing on the street,
13:05they don't need to hear this, it's horrible.
13:08Shocked and disgusted by what he claims he'd just heard,
13:11Aaron says he felt he had no choice but to intervene.
13:15I said, look, can you shut up?
13:17The kids are playing.
13:18Be respectful.
13:19And that's when I got it.
13:21Fuck off!
13:23Show up, you fat bastard, fuck off!
13:25And that's how you get spoke to.
13:29Who done argue with a partner on the street?
13:31So what?
13:33I'd not seen this side of Gaynor up until that period,
13:37and when I seen that, I thought, you know what?
13:41This is the type of person you're dealing with.
13:45At first, I wasn't bothered, I'm a very hard person.
13:49I was bullied at school.
13:51Well, so I could live with it.
13:55I knew I was the better person, and it didn't bother me.
14:00Aaron headed back inside and did his best to put it to the back of his mind.
14:05Well, initially, I thought that they were just having a glitch in the relationship,
14:11and that things would quieten down.
14:14It's nothing un-normal to fall out with your partners, I'm sure,
14:19but to share it with the street is not great.
14:24But the next time Aaron saw Gaynor's boyfriend, things would escalate again.
14:31So the next night, I was cutting the grass, and the bus pulled up,
14:37and he gets off the bus, and he had a crate of lager
14:41and a bouquet of flowers in the other hand.
14:44Went over to Gaynor's.
14:45Everything was fine.
14:47They were friends again.
14:48Flowers was in the vase, and the drinks were going down.
14:52And then before we know it, two hours later, it all erupts again.
14:58Fuck, he's low-life!
15:01She didn't seem to be bothered that everybody was listening,
15:04but then again, she never does.
15:05But the only trouble is, it's not just the adults that are listening,
15:08it's the kids, and the kids are listening,
15:12and kids have ears, and it's wrong.
15:15Fuck, fuck!
15:16I've never seen this behaviour before.
15:19After an explosive row, Gaynor's boyfriend left,
15:23but that wasn't the end of it.
15:25I think the final nail in the coffin was when
15:29she threw a can of his special brew, lager,
15:33at the bus window as he drove off into the sunset.
15:37But this was every night in the summer.
15:41You'd come home from work, and it had beat.
15:45All happening on the street, and it was like living in a war zone.
15:52Gaynor admits to having rows with her boyfriend
15:54that sometimes spill out into the street,
15:57but claims there was a special reason
15:59why Aaron would take such an interest.
16:01Would it be about the time when he was trying to get into my knickers?
16:07He used to try it on with me every other night.
16:12Aaron was flirting with me from day one
16:15from when he moved in that house
16:17until we slept together.
16:21I cheated on my partner, so, yeah.
16:25We did it twice.
16:26Once in his living room, once in his hot tub.
16:30Gaynor told us we did have a physical relationship
16:33with her on two occasions.
16:38Really?
16:40Is that what she says?
16:44But accusations surrounding Aaron's sexual behaviour
16:48would soon escalate further,
16:50with potentially devastating consequences.
16:54Gaynor was saying I was homosexual
16:56and let her to sleep with one of her friends.
16:58It was degraded.
17:06In the Welsh town of Geklygair,
17:09Mark Roberts' life was turned upside down
17:11when his neighbours transformed a local farm
17:13into a waste recycling plant.
17:17Well, everybody's calling in Smelly Geklygair.
17:20They're saying, oh, you're going up Smelly Geklygair.
17:26We've got this beautiful area,
17:28I mean, we just couldn't enjoy it anymore.
17:30I mean, we had to close the doors all the time,
17:32go back in the house, shut the windows.
17:35It's just not on.
17:37And Mark wasn't the only resident
17:39struggling with their neighbour's new venture.
17:42Donna Norton has lived in her home for 19 years,
17:46situated on the side of the recycling plant
17:48and has always loved her peaceful, uninterrupted surroundings.
17:52I'd love my grandchildren to enjoy this area.
17:56I used to seize the cows on the fields out there.
18:00But no sooner had her neighbours opened the recycling centre,
18:04Donna was horrified by the arrival of someone wanted visitors.
18:07Put my washing on the line, I'd go down the road,
18:10or if I had to go shopping or something,
18:13I'd come home and it'd be full of seagull poo.
18:18I had all my towels on the line and I came back
18:22and on three or four of them, it was full of seagull crap.
18:28It was awful.
18:29And it wouldn't be like a little thing,
18:31it'd be big, massive drops on them.
18:34Can't even put your washing out.
18:36Living miles from the coast,
18:38Donna was convinced there was only one explanation for the super splats.
18:43The seagulls was coming over from the recycling plant.
18:46They're loud, they're on your roofs.
18:50And, well, of course, wrecking your washing.
18:53You've got to redo it again.
18:55It's not on.
18:56But it wasn't long before Mark and his wife, Tracy,
18:59were also forced to deal with an unwanted visitor of their own
19:02that would shock them to the core.
19:04Me and Tracy are just sitting down
19:08and we were just chatting away at our old times.
19:11And then all of a sudden, this rat came in from this room.
19:15It ran across here, but, of course, we all jumped up.
19:19Like, there's his tail.
19:21He's run up there now.
19:23There it is, look, there it is.
19:24And the rat then ran under the settee.
19:27And we thought, oh, my God.
19:28There it is.
19:29Terrified of the vermin rifling through Mark's living room,
19:32Mark's wife, Tracy, began filming.
19:36I went and got a broomstick.
19:38So I was tapping away.
19:39I could see his tail.
19:40And out this rat came.
19:42We all jumped.
19:48It's not nice when you think about it.
19:50You've got vermin in your house.
19:52And I like to think that we've got a lovely home
19:54where it's clean and tidy.
20:01But this wasn't a one-off.
20:03Mark since had several rats running riot in his house.
20:06And he believes there is only one explanation.
20:09I do believe that the rats are coming closer
20:12because, obviously, of the contamination on the land.
20:14Disturbing everything, the wildlife,
20:16and it's all coming closer to the villages.
20:19But Brin Group manager Jennifer Price strongly denies
20:22the rats are coming from the recycling plant.
20:26Rats will only go 30 metres from their source of food,
20:31from their water, and from their bed.
20:33If they're seeing rats in their home,
20:36in their gardens,
20:37they need to look closer to their home and garden
20:40to find where those rats are.
20:42They're not coming from us.
20:43There is no transfer of rats from our site to the village.
20:48The rats that are in the village live in the village.
20:51But plans to expand the business further...
20:56..send shockwaves through the community.
20:59I don't know if it was a bomb or something.
21:01It was, like, a big explosion.
21:09In Derbyshire, Aaron Lang had confronted neighbour Gaynor Lees
21:13during an argument with her boyfriend.
21:16Something she claims is due to his jealousy.
21:19Have you ever had a physical relationship with Gaynor?
21:24I've never had a physical relationship with Gaynor.
21:28At the moment, I can barely even look at her and speak to her,
21:33let alone jump into bed with a woman.
21:36Aaron did his best to ignore her accusations
21:39and get on with his life,
21:40and it wasn't long before he had someone special to share it with.
21:44I met Sarah a long, long time ago.
21:48We were childhood sweethearts about three years ago, nearly.
21:52She'd recently separated from her partner.
21:55And we just hit it off.
21:58The relationship went from strength to strength,
22:01and within months, Sarah and her two girls had moved in
22:04as the couple were expecting their first baby.
22:10But just when life was going so well,
22:13Aaron feared the tension with Gaynor
22:15could damage the new relationship.
22:19I remember the first time that Sarah met Gaynor,
22:22the children was playing outside with Gaynor's children,
22:26and everything was normal.
22:28And obviously Sarah had to go over to the property,
22:32to Gaynor's,
22:33to tell the kids that tea was ready.
22:37And that's when the friendship began.
22:41Sarah and Gaynor would enjoy hanging out while their children played together.
22:45But Aaron was concerned that his partner's newfound friendship with Gaynor might backfire on him.
22:50And a few months later, it seemed his instincts were right.
22:55One night, I was just sat here watching telly,
22:57and Sarah had been over at Gaynor's,
23:01just sociable.
23:03The kids was playing,
23:04and she came back,
23:06and her face was like thunder,
23:09and I thought,
23:10there's something not right here,
23:12something's astray.
23:13After quizzing Sarah,
23:15Aaron was in for an almighty shock.
23:19Gaynor was saying that I'd been unfaithful to Sarah.
23:23But it wasn't the accusation that he'd slept with Gaynor
23:25that would have the most explosive impact.
23:28Gaynor was saying I was homosexual,
23:31and that I'd slept with one of her friends.
23:34Gaynor had said all nasty things about my past,
23:38just trying to come between me and Sarah, basically.
23:42So what made it even worse,
23:44Sarah was pregnant at the time,
23:45carrying our son,
23:47and Gaynor was saying all these poisonous things.
23:50And that's really loud.
23:56With tension now between Aaron and his girlfriend,
23:59things would get a lot worse,
24:00when Gaynor started sending allegations to Sarah via text.
24:05She showed me the messages on her phone,
24:07and I couldn't believe it.
24:09She says,
24:11at least my fella is not sleeping with every man walking.
24:15I mean, it's just ridiculous.
24:17And then she accuses Sarah of fitting a tracker to me,
24:23so that she can follow me.
24:25And then she says,
24:28when he's going dogging,
24:30you will be able to see where he is.
24:32It's just ridiculous.
24:35He knows he's gay.
24:36He knows he goes down Doggin Alley.
24:39He knows he's been one of my best mates.
24:41What he chooses to do is his own business,
24:43but don't deny it.
24:47Do you know what I mean?
24:48Don't lie.
24:49Lost for words.
24:51Absolutely lost for words,
24:53to the point where you think,
24:56what is going to happen next?
25:01I find it very hard to believe,
25:03because Doggin happens late at night,
25:05and I'm never out late at night.
25:08I'm always with Sarah,
25:09or I'm at a gig DJing.
25:12So that was obviously one not to believe.
25:17I think Gaynor was doing it because she was jealous.
25:20She wanted to split me and Sarah up.
25:24Aaron was now convinced Gaynor had a vendetta against him
25:27and was intent on destroying his relationship with Sarah.
25:32I personally think, deep down, Gaynor is jealous.
25:37I'm not a snob.
25:40I've got friends from all qualities of life,
25:43but she doesn't work.
25:45And I'm not slating her for that.
25:48I'm not calling her for that.
25:49If she chooses not to work,
25:51she's choosing not to have money,
25:53and that's the basis of life.
25:55If you don't work, you don't have money.
25:58I work seven days a week as a carer.
26:01I'm not jealous of him, but where is he?
26:04He went to Dubai, that's all I know.
26:07In the five, six, eight years I've known him.
26:11So what am I jealous of?
26:12Where's he been?
26:13I went to Blackpool,
26:15and they were chucking it down all week.
26:16I remember seeing them photos.
26:18That was funny.
26:18But luxury holidays or not,
26:21the clash of opinions soon escalated in the street on a regular basis.
26:27Come and save me, please.
26:29Fuck off there.
26:31It's council's, not yours.
26:34And it wasn't long before sparks started to fly.
26:38Gaynor was over here, at the window,
26:40going mad like this.
26:42You fucking bastard.
26:44I haven't fucking smashed my car up.
26:51In Wales, the residents of the small town of Geklygare
26:55felt their lives were blighted by noise, smells and vermin.
27:10WHISTLE SCREAMS
27:13But Mark's neighbours weren't stopping with the recycling plant.
27:17They had big plans for another venture
27:19that would cause the residents of this peaceful Welsh town
27:22a huge headache.
27:24I got up one morning in the summer,
27:26and about the same code, right, this tap-in started.
27:32I thought, what the hell is that?
27:34And it was tap, tap, tap, and it just didn't stop.
27:37And I thought, oh, my God, it's getting on my news.
27:40It's like you're sitting by the table
27:42and somebody banging a cup on the table all day.
27:46His neighbours had now reopened an old quarry,
27:49and it was creating a deafening racket.
27:53So I tried to phone the council.
27:55We couldn't get through, we kept phoning, kept phoning.
27:57I eventually got through,
27:59so I tried to explain to the reception desk what was happening.
28:03She said, I can't hear you. I said, I beg your pardon.
28:05She said, I can't hear you.
28:07She said, I want to speak to the environmental.
28:09And I said, there's going to be uproar in these villages
28:12if the people are going to keep putting up with this.
28:14I said, this has been going on
28:15from up past seven, quarter to eight this morning,
28:18and it's not acceptable.
28:20This tap-in, oh, my God, it's driving around a twist.
28:25Manager Jennifer Price says the operations at the quarry
28:28firmly work within the industry guidelines.
28:31We are mitigating that impact.
28:33We've made sure that we are in all of the regulations.
28:36We'll check things like the noise levels, the traffic movements,
28:43all of the environmental impacts and everything like this.
28:47But it wasn't long before Donna Norton
28:50experienced some strange goings-on too.
28:52One day I went to the shops
28:55and I was coming across that street over there.
28:59I knew this almighty bang.
29:03It shook me up.
29:04I was absolutely crapping myself, to be honest.
29:08Terrified, Donna began to fear the worst.
29:11I didn't know if it was a bomb or something.
29:13It was like a big explosion.
29:15I felt it underneath my feet.
29:16In fact, I was shaking because I was that frightened.
29:18I didn't know what was going on.
29:23All I could see then, later on, there's a big pile of smoke
29:27and it was like orange dust stuff all up in the air
29:31and it was absolutely massive.
29:34Fearful of what this could be,
29:36Donna rushed back to the safety of her home
29:39and soon discovered from the other residents
29:41the source of the sound, the quarry.
29:44It really, really shook me up.
29:46I'd never heard anything like it before in my life.
29:48Oh, my God.
29:52That's a bloody loud one.
29:54Manager Jennifer Price says these production blasts
29:58are part of the quarry's process to deepen the floor
30:00and make it safe.
30:02We do between 12 and 15 blasts a year.
30:04There's no limit on noise with the blasts.
30:09So, no, we've never exceeded that one
30:12because there isn't actually technically a limit.
30:17But Donna feared the blasts weren't only having a detrimental effect
30:20on her well-being, but also on her recently retiled bathroom.
30:25I'd come home from work and I was going upstairs to have a shower
30:29and, well, the bathroom was fine before I left work
30:34and I found these tiles was on the floor, these two.
30:39I couldn't believe it.
30:41Nothing like that had ever happened before.
30:43Donna was convinced the damage was caused by the vibrations
30:46coming from the quarry blasts and she feared it was devaluing her property.
30:52It's like I had my house valued.
30:54I think it has affected the amount you could go for it,
30:59for the value of the house.
31:02The villagers began campaigning against their neighbours,
31:05reaching out to the local council, the environment agency
31:08and even the Prince's Trust for help.
31:11You just name it, we have done it.
31:12We've emailed, we've wrote letters
31:14and it's just like if we're just hitting our head against a brick wall.
31:17After years of battling,
31:19the residents of Getly Gare received some news,
31:22but it was far from what they'd hoped for.
31:24Rather than close the recycling plant and quarry,
31:27the villagers were sickened to learn
31:29the Price family had applied for planning permission
31:31to make their operation even bigger.
31:34The quarry is about 500 metres from our homes now
31:38and obviously if this planning application gets through to expand,
31:44they're going to triple the size of the quarry.
31:46So that means then they're going to come within
31:49about 301 metres of my back garden.
31:54So that's going to triple the amount of the dust,
31:58the noise.
31:59This will drive you around the twist.
32:01And it's just not fair.
32:04With the outcome of the planning application being considered,
32:08the future of the village hangs in the balance.
32:12That means then we've got another 20 years of hell,
32:16as far as I'm concerned.
32:23In Garbyshire,
32:25believing neighbour Gaynor was trying to come between him
32:27and his girlfriend Sarah with accusations.
32:30Gaynor was saying I was homosexual
32:32and I go dogging.
32:36Aaron Lang was desperately trying to keep them apart,
32:39but an accident early one morning
32:41was soon to bring the two women face to face.
32:46So I'm in a hurry, late for work,
32:48jump in the car
32:50and start to reverse the car.
32:55And then suddenly, bang!
32:59Oh, shit!
33:02When I turned round
33:03and noticed it was Gaynor's car that I'd hit,
33:06I just thought,
33:07oh, my God,
33:09she's going to go absolutely mental.
33:13But when Aaron got out to inspect Gaynor's car,
33:16he felt an instant sense of relief.
33:19So damage-wise,
33:20there was nothing.
33:22It was literally this plastic bumper.
33:26Did he tell you that he'd hit my car and drove off?
33:28I was in a rush,
33:30so I went off to work.
33:32Aaron says he immediately called Sarah from the car
33:34and asked her to get in touch with Gaynor
33:36and let her know what had happened
33:38and that he would pop by later to smooth it over.
33:42But he claims Gaynor must have seen the prang from her window.
33:49So immediately after it had happened,
33:51Gaynor was over here at the window,
33:53going mad like this.
33:55Aaron's fucking smashed my car up.
34:00Sarah felt intimidated.
34:01She was on her own in the house at the time
34:03and she didn't know what to say.
34:06She tried to carve Gaynor down
34:07and just explain that I'd phoned her
34:10and it was all going to be sorted out.
34:13And you can actually see here
34:15where the mortar had to be replaced,
34:19where it all dropped out
34:20from the banging on the glass.
34:23I went running out,
34:24seeing what damage is done,
34:26gone to Sarah's.
34:27She was going,
34:29and then the next minute she rang Aaron
34:31and he went,
34:32all right, I'm on my way back,
34:33I'm on my way back.
34:34So he didn't come back
34:35and I had to go to work.
34:37So it never got sorted
34:38and then the lockdown happened.
34:40So he's full of crap.
34:42Aaron claims he made attempts
34:43to arrange for Gaynor's bumper to be fixed,
34:46but she did not turn up to appointments,
34:48something she claims was due to lockdown.
34:53But 16 months later,
34:55while Aaron and Sarah were enjoying life
34:57with their new baby,
34:58events spiralled out of control.
35:03So I'm in the living room
35:05and I think,
35:06what the hell's going on?
35:07What's all this banging noise?
35:09So Sarah,
35:10who's feeding the baby,
35:11opens the door
35:12and it's Gaynor
35:14demanding money for the car.
35:17So Gaynor's saying,
35:18where's my fucking money?
35:20I need my fucking car repairing.
35:22You slag.
35:24So Sarah then shuts the door
35:26and proceeds to go back
35:28into the kitchen.
35:30But Aaron says,
35:31despite Sarah retreating
35:33out of harm's way,
35:34Gaynor wasn't letting it drop.
35:36Then,
35:37Gaynor took it upon herself
35:38to bar straight in
35:40and get right up into Sarah's face
35:43saying,
35:44where's the fucking money for the car,
35:46you fucking slag?
35:49Terrified of what Gaynor
35:51was going to do next,
35:52Aaron says Sarah
35:53had no choice but to retaliate.
35:55Sarah pushes her
35:57and says,
35:58get out of the house
35:59sort it out with Aaron
36:01not like this
36:03and pushes Gaynor
36:04out of the house
36:05and closes the door.
36:10At this point,
36:11me and Sarah's
36:12obviously very shook up
36:13about a woman
36:14just barging in the house
36:15demanding money.
36:16Not only the language,
36:18it scared my son.
36:21I never demanded cash,
36:23I've always demanded for March
36:24and during text message
36:26via Sarah,
36:27not through Aaron,
36:28he ain't got his number.
36:29Can we please get my car booked in
36:31or shall I book it
36:32and you let me know?
36:34No answer.
36:36What are you doing?
36:37Are you ignoring me?
36:38What are you doing?
36:38So I went over there one day
36:39and then all the shit started.
36:42She's told me to piss off
36:43away from...
36:44I did shove a door open
36:46because she shoved it in my face
36:47but yeah,
36:48she told me to leave her alone.
36:50They weren't sorting nothing.
36:51I had my chance
36:52so go away.
36:54Coming up,
36:55Aaron lays out his case
36:56against Gaynor.
36:57We thought that
36:58they'll probably
36:59give Gaynor a bit of a warning.
37:02And finally,
37:03the council takes action.
37:05I was just lost for words.
37:06I mean,
37:08really was lost for words.
37:11And in Wales,
37:12the residents wait nervously
37:14to learn their fate.
37:16It's absolutely...
37:17It's a class.
37:19There's no way
37:20we should live like that.
37:28In Wales,
37:29after years enduring
37:30the head-pounding sound,
37:32smell and vermin
37:33coming from the local
37:34recycling plant and quarry,
37:36residents waited nervously
37:38for the outcome
37:38of a planning application
37:40to make the site
37:41even bigger.
37:42Of course it would become
37:43unbearable
37:44if they had the grant
37:45to go ahead
37:46with this application
37:47for the extension.
37:49It's like
37:50you're living on end
37:51and an industrial state
37:53full of factories
37:54with the noise
37:55that goes on over there.
37:56It's absolutely ridiculous.
38:00There's no way
38:01we should live like that.
38:02But manager Jennifer Price
38:04argues the company's
38:05expansion plans
38:06will have some positives
38:07for the local area.
38:09The expansion
38:10that we're looking to do
38:11with the quarry
38:12will ensure
38:13a long-term income
38:15for our family
38:17and for the people
38:18that we employ,
38:19for their families.
38:20It's a 25-year expansion
38:21so that is literally
38:23somebody's working life.
38:24Since filming,
38:25no decision has been made
38:26regarding the expansion.
38:28But the Brin Group,
38:29who run the recycling plant
38:30and quarry,
38:31have recently been given
38:32an enforcement notice
38:34after land was found
38:35to be contaminated
38:36with plastic.
38:37And since then,
38:39have been issued
38:39a Section 59
38:41environmental order
38:42after further contamination
38:43was found.
38:44The Brin Group
38:45has apologised
38:46for the pollution.
38:50Resident Donna Norton
38:51feels trapped
38:52and she says
38:53she doesn't think
38:53she could move
38:54even if she wanted to.
38:56I'd have hard trouble
38:57selling my house anyway
38:58because you've got to
38:58let them know
38:59that there's blasting
39:00going on,
39:01there's smells here,
39:03things are low,
39:04you've got to tell them.
39:05What are they going to do?
39:06Oh, not going to buy that house.
39:08For Mark,
39:09his dreams of holding
39:10onto the legacy
39:11of his childhood,
39:12enjoying the land
39:12surrounding his home
39:14and now in tatters.
39:16Kids come up
39:17and they could say to me,
39:19Granch,
39:19let's go play
39:20on the common.
39:20I say,
39:21you can't,
39:21it's dangerous.
39:22There's a big hole
39:23over there.
39:24And they could say,
39:25well, Granch,
39:26that's what you used
39:26to tell me
39:27that that's where
39:27you used to play.
39:29I said,
39:29we did.
39:30It was fantastic.
39:31Part of my growing up.
39:33But I'm sorry, kids,
39:35you can't go over there,
39:35it's too dangerous.
39:38But despite having
39:40a colossal battle
39:41on his hands,
39:41Mark vows never
39:43to give up the fight.
39:45Many people are saying,
39:47Mark,
39:48you won't beat them,
39:50so you might as well
39:51leave it.
39:52But I'm sorry,
39:53we will beat them.
39:55We will destroy them
39:56like they are destroying
39:57our lives.
39:58And if that's what
39:59we've got to do,
40:00we will stand up
40:01and we will fight them
40:02no matter what it takes.
40:10In Derbyshire,
40:11Aaron Lang claims
40:12his relationship
40:13with his girlfriend
40:14had been affected
40:15by lies,
40:16loud noise
40:16and face-to-face
40:17confrontations
40:18with neighbour
40:19Gaynor Lees.
40:28So it's got to the point
40:29now where Sarah
40:30does want to move
40:31and she feels
40:31uncomfortable living here.
40:35I'm a bit different
40:36because obviously
40:37I bought this house
40:38as my first property
40:39and I've done all this to it,
40:40so why should I have
40:42the uproar of moving
40:43just because of
40:44a single person
40:47affecting our lives?
40:48We shouldn't have to move.
40:52It got to the point
40:53where enough was enough,
40:55so I thought
40:55I'm going to have to
40:56get the council
40:59and the local authorities
41:00involved because
41:01nothing's getting done
41:03about it.
41:05They gave us this book
41:06to report
41:08all the incidents
41:09and social behaviour.
41:13Unprepared to walk away
41:14from a home
41:15he'd poured sweat
41:16into improving,
41:17Aaron kept
41:18a detailed log
41:19of his troubles
41:19with Gaynor.
41:21So we had a meeting
41:22with the counsellor
41:23and we thought
41:25finally it's coming
41:26together
41:26and we're going
41:27to get something done.
41:29We thought that
41:30things would
41:31be rectified
41:32and they'll probably
41:34give Gaynor
41:35a bit of a warning
41:36and Gaynor will realise
41:37that she needs
41:38to book her ideas
41:39up a little bit
41:40and hopefully
41:41we can all move forward.
41:44and it wasn't long
41:45before Aaron
41:46received news.
41:47I was sat here
41:48relaxing one morning
41:49before I go off
41:50to work
41:50and the postman
41:52arrives
41:52and letter
41:54drops on the map.
41:55When I got
41:56to this point here
41:57I noticed
41:57the letter
41:58looked quite
41:58important
42:02and I thought
42:03hmm
42:03I wonder what
42:04this is.
42:06As soon as I
42:07opened it
42:07I seen the council
42:08logo and I thought
42:09oh Brill I wonder
42:10if they're finally
42:11going to do something
42:12about this
42:13issue with Gaynor.
42:14But far from
42:16taking Aaron's side
42:17he was shocked
42:18by the contents
42:19of the letter.
42:20And as soon as
42:21I read the first line
42:22I couldn't believe it.
42:25They're actually
42:27complaining
42:29to me
42:32upsetting Gaynor
42:33using my power tools
42:35for DIY.
42:38As soon as I
42:39read this
42:42I was just
42:43lost for words.
42:44I mean
42:46really was
42:47lost for words.
42:50Environmental
42:51health
42:52warned DIY
42:53enthusiast Aaron
42:54to take steps
42:55to curb his
42:56noise nuisance
42:57or enforcement
42:58action
42:58would be taken.
43:02Who would
43:03do such a thing?
43:04We know that
43:07I do this
43:08after work
43:09for an hour
43:09maybe two hours
43:11so
43:11ongoing
43:13and
43:15long periods
43:16of time
43:16is clearly
43:18rubbish.
43:21Yeah I did
43:22report him
43:22because he was doing
43:23it on purpose
43:24he was cutting
43:25the same piece
43:26over and over
43:27and over and over
43:28and over and over
43:29and over and over
43:43being the focus
43:43of the council
43:44interest
43:45it could be a long
43:46time before their
43:47situation is over.
43:50Life's too short
43:51I don't hold a grudge
43:52and if she was to
43:54come over now
43:55and share a drink
43:57with us
43:57and say look
43:59I've been a bit of a twat
44:01I've had a lot going on
44:02in me life
44:03I'm sorry
44:03let's all
44:06try and get on
44:07because we've got
44:07to live on this street
44:08then I'd like to say
44:11I'd give it a go
44:12but I know
44:13that next week
44:15she'll be back
44:16to square one
44:17and the abuse
44:18will be
44:19rolling off
44:20of her tongue.
44:22I don't like him
44:23I come home
44:24from work every day
44:25I want to come
44:26into my house
44:26I don't want him
44:27sat out there
44:28slagging me off
44:29with his stupid
44:30fricking girlfriend
44:33I'm a single mum
44:34and
44:35I'm just an easy target.
44:46A missing plane
44:47one survivor
44:48and a whole heap
44:50of questions.
44:51Investigators are
44:52ramping up their search
44:53for the truth
44:53as our brand new drama
44:55Departure
44:55continues next.