HOMEHOLDERS in Over Peover are calling on the owners of a damaged outbuilding that overlooks their properties to sort it out.

The damage to the building – owned by Yorkshire–based Samuel Smiths Brewery – was caused by storms that hit the road on August 2, 2011.

It was the same day the Guardian reported how a tree had flattened a Mercedes that was parked on the road.

But the building – used as a village fire station during the Second World War – has been left damaged ever since, with residents battling with the brewery in an attempt to get the situation resolved.

Audrey Lindsay, who lives on Cheshire Row, Stocks Lane, said residents have had to endure the building in its current state for two-and-a-half years.

“A few of the older residents are quite nostalgic about it,” she said.

“But in its current state it really is an eyesore, it didn’t add anything to the village and we’ve won awards in the past but there’s no chance with this like it is.

“For many months the building was without scaffolding and a real danger to the public on this busy road. We have been given no reason for the delay in either demolishing or re-building it.

“The skip has been there for a couple of months so people have started chucking stuff into it – we are fed up of it.”

However, a member of staff working in the estates office at the Tadcaster-based brewery told the Guardian it would not be speaking to the press about this matter when they were contacted this week.