The person was found in Garfield Avenue yesterday.
Police were today stationed outside an overgrown property with an older model car in the driveway.
A Garfield Ave resident, who declined to be named, said the house belonged to a man who was living a reclusive lifestyle.
"It's a house with no power, it's overgrown as hell, and the guy who lived there was a forager and lived off the grid.
"He had chickens, he had wild cats.
"You would see him going around on his bicycle and foraging for things, but I haven't seen him for ages."
"Initial indications suggest the deceased may have been at the scene for some time," police said in a statement.
Police were working with ESR and a scene team "to remove the deceased for forensic pathology examination".
A formal identification had yet to be done.
