A TOWER block estate has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “fly-tipping”.

Rubbish has been raining down on the terrified residents of Larner Road, Erith, from the sixth floor of one of the tower blocks.

Among the objects hurled from the windows of Verona House have been a bicycle, car batteries and a stereo system.

Tenants' leader on the estate Dianne Joyce says the highaltitude dumping has got to stop before someone is seriously hurt.

Already, the caretaker of the block has refused to go near Verona House in case he gets hit by high-flying rubbish.

Mrs Joyce says appeals to Orbit (Bexley) Housing Association to get a grip on the situation have failed to produce any action.

She says people living on the estate are frightened to go near the block in case any more rubbish is dropped from the windows.

“We are especially frightened one of the estate's children could be playing or running past the block when something is thrown,” she told the News Shopper.

It is also making the estate unsightly with rubbish scattered on the grassed area surrounding the block.

So far, Mrs Joyce says appeals to the people responsible to stop their activities have failed. She says she has no idea why those responsible are throwing the rubbish out of the windows rather than using the estate's rubbish bins.

The News Shopper also contacted Orbit to ask what it was doing to stop people hurling dangerous items from high-rise levels of the tower blocks but the housing association failed to respond to the paper's calls.