A WOMAN has told of her shock after waking up to find a Banksy-style mural painted on the side of her home.
Nickie Hadley, from Hyde, Greater Manchester, had been fast asleep while local graffiti artist, known as Mr Eggs, left his mark on her home earlier this month.
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The artwork features a ‘save our green belt’ banner being carried by an aircraft along with a small boy handling a pile of bricks underneath.
It is inspired by the campaign to protect the Hyde countryside from a housing development, Manchester Evening News (MEN) reports.
And 50-year-old Nickie, who supports the campaign, couldn’t have been happier with the result.
“It’s amazing, I love it,” she told MEN.
“I woke up in the morning and two neighbours were stood outside.
“I went to the front window, they waved and said ‘we love it’. I came out and it was there.”
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Nickie said she has been in contact with Mr Eggs on Instagram to tell him “it’s a brilliant piece of artwork”.
And she joked: “It’s always easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission!”
The homeowner explained she is in the ‘Save Tameside Greenbelt group’ on Facebook and when she first joined she left a comment to say anybody with a poster was welcome to display it on her house.
She is unsure whether that’s how Mr Eggs came up with the idea to use her house, which she says now “opens people’s eyes to the cause”.
Campaigners against the countryside development in Hyde – known as the Godley Green development – fear a loss of wildlife in the community, and Tameside Council has received more than 3,200 objections to a planning application for the scheme.
Tameside Council leaders say the garden village will be a sustainable development of ‘great quality and design’, with infrastructure and green space included.
They also insist there is nowhere else in the borough that the project could be built in order for Tameside to meet its requirement of new homes.
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