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The NHBC has finally come up with a Consumer Code of Conduct, well a draft one. They are planning to launch it in 2010 and if the industry cannot achieve this goal then the OFT will recommend that new consumer protection legislation is introduced as land and property transaction are currently excluded from the majority of consumer laws. However, Zurich have dropped out which may make this impossible:
The OFT was officially informed in writing on the 16 February 2009 that Zurich Insurance Company (UK) Limited (Zurich) had withdrawn from the body which proposed to administer the homebuilding code, leaving National House Building Council and MD Insurance Services Limited to form the code body alone.
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Residents of Gaston Way in Shepperton are considering legal action against a housing developer who they accuse of 'blunders' including cutting through a watermain.
People living close to the former Rodd Industrial Estate in Gaston Way say Persimmon Homes, which has been building new homes at the site for two years, has left them without water and electricity on different occasions.
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Heating problems are common in many new build homes. Read this on the Montgomerie Park Residents' Association Site and find the results of their poll:
Anyone on the Persimmon estate (or any of the others) have an issue with the heating of their property? I have been having a bit of a debate with builder over undersized radiators.
They have sent me some literature from company who carried out the U-value calculations for property size and construction which basically tell you the radiators installed offer the correct output.
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Families living on a flagship housing development say their lives are being made a misery by a catalogue of failings by building firms.
Last month, the Evening News revealed how homeowners on the Fellowes Plain estate on the former hospital site off Wessex Street were being blighted by 20ft-high silos placed within yards of their front doors.
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House Beutiful have launched a campaign to improve the quality of new homes in the UK because according to the Office of Fair Trading almost one in four people who buy a newly built home complain of serious quality problems and snagging issues.
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