‘I paid to live on a quiet, tree lined street. Now it could be ruined’ – Manchester Evening News

It was the location for two short-lived but admired TV shows. Scenes were shot on the quiet tree-lined avenue for last year's "magical" BBC comedy, Film Club. It had been created by its star, Stockport's Aimee Lou Wood, .And back in 1969 and 1970 Jack Rosenthal's sitcom, The Dustbinmen, was filmed there. But Ashbourne Grove in Whitefield is now at the centre of true-life drama. The stakes for two opposing sides are high. Halfway down the road of mainly immaculately kept semi-detached homes is th