While Sussex braces itself for the worst floods since 2000, people living in one narrow street say puddles are causing them misery all year round.

Residents in Stonery Road, Portslade, are fed up getting soaked by passing vehicles every time it rains.

Faulty gulleys allow water to form deep pools, which send water cascading across the pavement and into gardens when cars drive through them.

Residents claim Brighton and Hove City Council is turning a blind eye to their plight.

Nasser Ouldhabib has just had his third soaking from a car, which drove through puddles outside his home.

His wife Debbie has also been caught in the wall of water thrown up every time there is a downpour.

To make matters worse, the front gardens on their side of the road are 10ft below road level, which means residents are often confronted by a waterfall from above.

Mr Ouldhabib, 40, said: "I have just been soaked by a passing car and have had to come in and change all my clothes.

"I have been caught out before in the seven years we have lived here and so has my wife. Everyone living here is fed up with it but the council doesn't seem willing to do anything about it."

Neighbour Dave Bonwick said: "The problem is this is a narrow road, with cars parked all along one side.

"The gulleys have dropped because of the wear caused by traffic driving along this side of the road and that allows rainwater to pool.

"We have written letter after letter to the council asking it to repair the gulleys properly but all it does is put some more Tarmac on them.

"It soon wears away and we get the same problem back again. It has been going on for years but the council still won't spend the money on building the gulleys up."

Resident Dennis Goatcher said: "We get cars speeding up and down here and it's not funny when you get caught in the waterfall which cascades on top of people from over their garden walls."

Portslade North councillor Harry Steer said he was sympathetic to their plight.

He said: "It has been a continuing problem for them and something the council has been trying to resolve for some time.

"The problem affects the whole area and not just Stonery Road and goes back to there being no mains drainage when the estates were built.

"An inquiry was set up with Southern Water to look at how to deal with the flooding situation in Portslade and that is still continuing."