'I dread the heavy rain - the water is coming through our walls and no one will help'

Recently, Charlene and Kevin Chapman from Moorside, Oldham have had to put on their wellies just to take the bins out.

Their back garden is regularly submerged under a two-centimetre pool of water that swells or shrinks depending on the weather.

“I dread the heavy rain,” she told the Manchester Evening News. “It just keeps flooding and it feels like no one’s listening to us, no one’s helping, no one’s even admitting it’s their fault.”

The couple says their property on Haugh Hill Road has flooded four times since October. During storms, water starts pooling into the conservatory, leaves dark stains on their outside walls and the electrics start tripping out.

“It’s quite scary,” Charlene said. “I’m stressed all the time because I keep panicking about the long-term impact on the walls of the building, about the insurance.”

She and Kevin have lived in the home for three and a half years. But they say issues with flooding only started three months ago - coinciding with works taking place in a neighbouring field to install a drainage system for a huge new housing development known as Weaver’s Croft.

"I was very concerned and worried as this had never happened before," Kevin said. "The flooding only started after construction workers installed drainage pipes that come to the corner of my property and [look as though] they go nowhere."

According to Charlene, it took days of chasing the construction workers, the developers, Cube Homes and Oldham Council to receive any help. Construction workers eventually lent the family sandbags, which Charlene was left to fill and install by herself.

“They just kept blaming each other, and saying there was nothing they could do because they don’t have permission to enter the land,”