IT WAS designed as an innovative and immersive drama to brighten up a struggling part of Brighton’s seafront.

But the team behind Something Street has found themselves in hot water with Brighton and Hove City Council after failing to clear away their set three months after the show ended.

Residents have complained to council leader Warren Morgan that the Madeira Drive site has been left an “eyesore” and now the authority is due to clear the mess themselves and bill the Something Street team for the clean-up.

Whizz Bang Production’s managing director Jack White said the company had been let down by removal companies on more than once occasion but hoped to clear the site within weeks.

The immersive theatre event ran throughout the summer until the start of September on the site of the former Peter Pan’s Playground in Madeira Drive ahead of its development into an outdoor swimming pool.

Spectators paid up to £22 to inhabit the house set and chart the lives of a Brighton family through the decades from the 1940s to the modern era.

But when the show ended, the set remained.

In recent weeks the interior and much of the roof has been removed but the walls, crossbeams and remaining roof which was supposed to be cleared up by the start of the year remains.

The production company had already been given extra leeway over the Christmas period to remove the set.

Mr White said: “We finished in September but then there has been a delay in removing the set.

“Unfortunately a couple of the removal companies have let us down, they were supposed to clear the site but then pulled out which has meant we had to go back to the drawing board.

“The set is being cleared, in about two or three weeks the whole of Something Street will have disappeared.

“We have been in regular contact with the council about this.

“It was unfortunately one of those things that we didn’t have the best of weather over the summer.

“Brighton really is a great city and it is just a shame that it hasn’t worked out.”

A Brighton and Hove City Council spokesman said: “We’ve given the organisers every chance to clear the mess.

“We’ll now arrange for contractors to do the work and will seek to recover our costs from the organisers.

“We haven’t yet fixed a timescale for this, but it will be as soon as possible.”

Council leader Warren Morgan said the company would not be given permission to return to council land for any future performances.