Householders in a Lawkholme cul-de-sac have demanded their neighbour removes a path she is building on the road.

Residents of at least four houses in Back Kirby Street have asked Bradford Council to intervene to stop the work being completed.

They claim the concrete path and building materials have narrowed the unmade road making it difficult to manoeuvre cars around each other.

Police were called last month after local residents confronted a new team of builders who had taken over work on the metre-wide path.

Bradford Council's highways department has written to the woman informing her of the neighbours' complaints.

The council warned the woman that although Back Kirby Street was unadopted, it was a public street and could not be built on.

The complainants live in terraced houses on one side of Back Kirby Street – with addresses in adjacent Eric Street – while the house with the path lies opposite, with an address in Hyde Grove.

Residents of houses in the cul-de-sac would not agree to be named when the Keighley News approached them.

One resident said work had begun on the path last year and had stopped after residents complained, only to resume again last month.

A neighbour said that when work began on the path several residents lost the use of poles that allowed washing to be hung across the street.

The woman building the path, who also did not want to be named, said a council officer had visited her to measure the line of her property.

She added: “He told me the best thing I could do was put a fence there. They told me to put a path inside my garden.”

A spokesman for Bradford Council confirmed the matter had been reported to it.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed police had been called to an incident in Back Kirby Street last month, and that no further action was being taken.