A WOMAN has told how she is frightened in her own home after she found a man lying in a pool of blood on her doorstep.

The 30-year-old woman, who lives alone and wanted to remain anonymous out of fear, said she didn’t know whether she was dead or alive.

She said she is now looking to move from Seafield Road, Hove.

Only two months before a man’s head smashed through her window during a drunken street fight on the road, which residents claim is plagued by antisocial behaviour and drug deals.

She said: “I woke up and there was a man lying unconscious on my doorstep, so I stepped over him. I didn’t know whether he was breathing or not.

“I didn’t want to alarm him as soon as I left my place. I rang the police later on and they told me they didn’t attend the scene until after he had gone.”

She said she is now looking to move from the road home to two temporary hostels for vulnerable clients with mental health and addiction issues, a vulnerable children’s home and a backpackers’ hostel .

It comes as Brighton and Hove City Council scrapped a lease that would see notorious homeless hostel West Pier Project move to the road.

The hostel moved out of Regency Square in Brighton at the end of 2015 after its residents caused disruption to homes and businesses for 15 years.

Residents on the road are now setting up a residents’ association to oppose any new change of use plans by Hove-based Regency One for a hostel at adjoining houses in Seafield Road.

In February Regency One were refused planning consent to convert the multiple occupation houses to 20 self-contained rooms, but have now applied to convert it to 13 instead,

Residents fear the property will become a temporary accommodation for other councils like hostel Hartman Homes on the road.

Susan Constantinou, from the residents’ campaign, said a number of renters and families on the road were moving because they were fed up of the antisocial behaviour on the road.

Mrs Constantinou, a landlord who owns a rental property on the road, said: “I met with a resident the other day, and she has video footage of the drug deals that are taking place.

“And a man and his family is now going to put their house up for sale because he saw drug dealing going on outside the backpacking hostel so they are leaving.

“A renter is leaving because he’s rented there for six years and he can’t handle the antisocial behaviour anymore.”

Residents claim the trouble has been going on the road for 20 years on and off.

Councillor Clare Moonan said she supported the residents association. She said: “ I worked hard to support the residents to reverse the councils decision to move West Pier Project there, but the threat still remains.

“If the owners get planning permission we have little control over what the landlord does. So I will be supporting residents in putting pressure on them to do something appropriate.”