RESIDENTS on a new luxury estate are so incensed about a "dump" of wrecked cars they have compiled a spoof home buyers' brochure.

The new home owners in plush Belmont Park estate, Astley Bridge, are asking: "Would you want to buy our luxury homes -- views of burnt out cars guaranteed".

They have made a "pretend" glossy publication to advertise their homes -- but with the addition of the eyesore cars.

The wrecked and burnt-out vehicles appeared in a locked compound a few months after people moved into their new four-bedroom houses, costing up to £120,000.

But the owner of IGW Recovery Services, Ian Workman, which uses the site, and is contracted by Greater Manchester Police to pick up stolen and accident damaged vehicles, claims he has been forced to use the land at Belmont Road after a long-running parking dispute with the council.

The council, in turn, have told Mr Workman to remove the vehicles and they are threatening further action.

In the meantime, residents who thought the site was originally going to be an access road, say they are faced with a view from their back gardens which is an"horrendous eyesore".

But Mr Workman, who has run IGW for 25 years, claims he could not park his recovery lorries outside his former premises at Croasdale Street, which is away from residential homes, because of parking problems. He has planning permission to use the land at Belmont Road as a car park.

And he blames the council for not supporting his bid to buy land on a new site at the entrance to St Peter's Business Park off Blackburn Road.

He said: "I have some sympathy with some of the residents -- those who did not know we use the land for this purpose. However some of them are just trouble makers.

"We do not want to use this land because it is very inconvenient for our purposes. It is the council which has been entirely unsupportive."

He has sold his land at Croasdale Street to allow developers to build a new B&Q DIY store and moved to the patch of land next to his petrol garage on Belmont Road. Residents have complained that the stolen and accident-damaged cars are a magnet for thieves and vandals as well as local children. The cars are often left for months before they are reclaimed by the police or insurance companies.

Jacqueline Gentry, aged 37, a sales administrator, lives on the Belmont Park estate overlooking the site.

She said: "It is an absolute nightmare. Our dream home has been turned sour. We get children and thieves in there and we fear they will start eyeing up our home. It is a dump. There are no new vehicles there, only damaged cars.

"It's not what you expect to look out from your house, especially when we bought our home we were just told it was an access road."

Other residents living on Belmont Road complain the breakdown trucks are causing road chaos.

Resident Doreen Canhan said: "It's an accident waiting to happen. They park so cars can barely get down the road. Ambulances on emergency calls come from the ambulance station just further up the road.

"Will it take a serious accident or a death before it stops?"

They say the cars are being brought to the site at all hours of the day and night.

A Bolton Council spokesman said: "We have written to the company asking them to cease use of the land for accident damaged cars, which contravenes the planning permission for that land as a car park. If necessary we would have to serve an enforcement notice."