Sunderland home remains cordoned off after 'significant subsidence' in city street

Sunderland City Council confirmed that it is continuing to work alongside the home owners following the incident, which emerged over the weekend.

A house Broomshields Avenue was affected by subsidence, with the home’s driveway and front garden visibly sunken below street level.

A silver Mercedes, parked in the property’s drive alongside a blue car, had gone nearly a foot into the ground and remained in the same state yesterday.

A resident of the street, who did not wish to be named, said “two or three” houses were previously demolished at the bottom of the street due to a similar problem.