A MOBILE home in transit to a traveller site got wedged in a narrow country lane leaving it blocked for more than two days.

The calamity which completely blocked Vernons Road, Chappel, led to police being called after efforts to move the 45ft long mobile home on a low loader were seemingly abandoned.

Last night the caravan and loader were still stuck.

Villagers could be forced to take the matter into their own hands by drafting in a tractor to do the job.

Peter Chillingworth, Colchester councillor for Great Tey ward, came across the "bungalow" about 300 yards away from his home in the same lane.

He said: "The mobile home was being delivered to Orchard Place traveller site in Chappel which has two roads to access it.

"They chose to use this one but found it couldn't get round the bend and got thoroughly stuck."

The loader and home got stuck early on Saturday at the east end of the lane, which connects the A1124 Colchester Road with Fordham.

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Mr Chillingworth added: "It is very large, you would maybe call it a mobile home but it looks more like a bungalow.

"There were already two of these mobile homes on the site and they both had difficulty getting there.

"It does seem to be wider than the others.

"I have sympathy with the people but on the other hand it is a major inconvenience to anyone using the road.

"We have people turning around and having to go back via Chappel."

A woman who lives at Orchard Place but declined to provide her name, said the mobile home was supposed to have been for one of her relatives at the site.

"He [the contractor] was supposed to deliver it here.

"He took it off the lorry and said he would be back at 8.30am on Sunday to bring it here.

"I was ringing his phone all day yesterday. We got through to him last night and he said he could come back Friday.

"We have been trying since all day yesterday to get someone to help.

"Some of the neighbours will come down tomorrow to help us move it with a tractor."

The woman, who said he paid £2,500 for the delivery, said she thought hedgerows either side of the loader and home would need to be chopped back to help free it.

"It is a joke, he has just left it there," she added.

However, police have also separately offered to help move the obstruction.

An Essex Police spokesman said: "Police were contacted at around 6.45pm on Saturday, November 21 with reports of an obstruction in Vernons Road in Colchester.

"It was reported that an unattended mobile home being transported by a transit van was in the road. Officers are making enquiries and have arranged for it to be removed."