A MAJOR clean-up has taken place at a former Portland care home after fly-tipped rubbish, broken glass and debris was found.

Vindelis Court was closed back in 2011 and the building was boarded up. Residents and councillors said they are ‘appalled and disappointed’ that Vindelis Court and Mantle Close garages have been abandoned for so long.

Synergy Housing said it had sent a team to clear up the site.

It was a residential care home for elderly people and the company said that final survey work is taking place. This will be finished in the autumn and the existing building will be demolished soon after.

Before the clean-up operation, the Dorset Echo visited the site with those concerned about it.

It is still used as a walk way by residents, who have to walk past piles of rubbish, scrap metal, clothes, old bits of wood and broken glass.

Borough Councillor Sandy West said Synergy had a ‘public responsibility’ to secure the site.

She said she remembered the home as it was before as several family members had been cared for there.

She said: “My mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law used to be here. They were a happy nice bunch here.”

Town councillor Richard Denton-White said with the broken glass and fly-tipped rubbish he was concerned it could be a health and safety issue.

He said: “Also it makes a joke out of the Olympic legacy.”

Andy Straw is a volunteer coastal ranger from Portland. He said: “I’m disgusted.

“They turfed all the old people out of their homes.

“They could have stayed there another year.”

Following the clean-up Coun West said: “I’m over the moon.

“The positive thing is that something will be done now. I’m upset it’s taken so long.”

She added: “They are going to make it safe and secure and that was all we were concerned about.”