Taylor Wilson, 31, said she’d been taken to hospital three times since moving to the ‘stinking’ North Lanarkshire address.

Kids are wading through puddles of sewage on the way to school while rats “the size of rabbits” run riot on a North Lanarkshire street, a resident has claimed. Taylor Wilson, 31, told Glasgow Live she had been taken to hospital three times since moving to the “stinking” address in Airdrie.

Since moving to her property on the corner of Boar Road about a year ago, she said she has routinely battled puddles of human waste and strewn toilet paper on the street. And Taylor told how the mess has allowed rats to flourish, once coming home to find an enormous rodent on her doorstep.

She claimed North Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Water had done little to stop the sewage spills spewing from drains outside her home despite repeated complaints. And she said children often had to walk through the “disgusting” streams of sewage to get to the local school and playpark nearby.

Taylor told Glasgow Live: “The waste spilling into the street has been an ongoing issue since I moved here almost a year ago. There is toilet paper and other human waste that comes from the drains and up from my neighbour’s garden.

“There are a lot of health concerns as well. I’ve got serious health conditions and everyday I’ve been ill since moving here. I’ve been hospitalised three times. I get severe migraines, my lymph nodes keep swelling and I’ve been getting breathing problems.

“I had pleurisy a couple of years ago that caused damage to my lungs, and living here, it sometimes feels that I can’t breathe. I’ve never experienced that before.

“It’s been driving me insane. I’m not sure how much longer I can live here.”

And she explained how pupils at nearby St Margaret’s High School are routinely forced to wade through the waste.

Taylor said: “When it rains, it gets washed down the street towards the high school. Kids have to walk through it to get there and to the park.

“There are multiple people who have complained of the sewage and it has been attracting rats. They are about the size of rabbits.

“I came home the other day and one was sitting on my doorstep.”

The stink from the street is so bad Taylor can smell it in her house – forcing to her to shut all her doors and windows even during last week’s bout of warm, sunny weather.

Emergency repairs are needed to fix a burst sewer on the roundabout at the junction of Bore Road, Kirkness Street and Waverly Drive, Scottish Water said – vowing these will be carried out shortly.

A spokesperson for Scottish Water said: “We will do all that we can to carry out the repair as quickly as the conditions and safety will allow.

“We would like to thank all those affected for their patience and understanding.”

A traffic management system will be established while the repairs are ongoing, the council said.