Developers built a road around a family's home after they refused to leave.

Footage shows the two-storey home with an awkward location blocking a lane in the middle of an intersection in Bangkok, Thailand.

The real estate planners had asked resident Wandee Nuwong, 35, to relocate but to no avail, as the vegetable seller vowed to ‘stay and fought' despite attempts to force her out.

Wandee said: ‘In 2010, they first tried to drive us away. There were once so many homes here, about 300 houses.

‘But I stayed and fought until today. The company want to use the area so they came and negotiated.'

Wannee has been living in the property since 1997 and found a job as a fruit and vegetable merchant.

Her family settled on the plot of land with shrubs near a canal and built a house there before registering their address to the government. This legitimised their claim to the property so the company could not evict her.

Wannee said: ‘A businessman sued to evict hundreds of my neighbours for land development. Only seven were left, including my house. We have not been sued because our houses were properly registered.'

However, Wannee had to smash portions of her house that allegedly belonged to the property developer for which she was paid 23,000 baht (533 GBP) as compensation for hiring workers to do the job.

The defiant resident said a new investor built a road but as they could not acquire permits to demolish her home, they had to tarmac around the outskirts of her property.

She said: ‘When the road was first being constructed, they asked me again to relocate but they could not get the permits so I stayed. They then built the road right onto my doorstep.'

‘Nobody came to negotiate regarding the road construction with me or my family, so I ignored it and just lived my life as I normally would. Many villagers warned my family to be careful of accidents as cars may not be able to divert the lane in time and crash into the house.'

Due to Wannee's defiance, she said her offers to leave have gone up as the years passed. Just last month, she was offered the equivalent of more than 100,000 USD to move to another house but she is still thinking about it.

She said: ‘I could surrender. We are the only house left. We can just return to Yasothon province, my hometown.'