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Barratt Homes Posionous Lake Complaint

This story highlights the fact that the house builders will build absolutely anywhere. Extreme care needs to be taken when buying new homes on these so-called brown field sites. You really need to do your homework to find out what that land was used for. Amazingly, even though the authorities knew about the nature of [...]

Barratt Homes Renege on Play Area

I was just writing about issues with parking on a new build estate in Devon and how developers try to maximise the number of units on a site by minimising parking and play areas etc. If residents are lucky the local council will intervene to ensure that certain features are required to get planning consent. [...]

New Home Parking Problems

New home developers hire specialist planning consultants and designers that aim to maximise the profitability of every planned development by ensuring that the housing density is a high as possible. This impacts on many aspects of a development that make living there more enjoyable such as open spaces, play areas and the like. However, the [...]

Barratt Homes Fined for Ignoring the Law

Bolton Council has successfully taken action against Barratt Homes who have been fined £5,400 for flyposting in the Bolton area. The builder was given ample opportunity to take down the illegal posters but failed resulting in the local council taking action. Obviously, the builder sees this fine as being insignificant compared to the advertising and [...]

Blog about your new build experiences

Newhomeblogs.co.uk our sister site has been much unloved over that last few months, so we have given it some tender loving care and are now looking for new bloggers. If you are buying a new build home and would like to blog about your experiences then head over the new home blogs. We would love [...]

My home became an electrical deathtrap

A leading housebuilder has launched an investigation into how one of its homes was turned into a deathtrap by damaged electrical wiring. Darren Korol suffered 230-volt shocks when he touched the cooker in his new £220,000 Barratt Homes. flat in Crawley, West Sussex. The 41-year-old print salesman’s children suffered jolts from the bathroom taps. An [...]

Homebuyers face delays

Homebuyers hoping to move into a new central Watford development before Christmas may not get the keys to their new flats until June. Covered in white plastic sheeting, construction work at the Queensgate development in Loates Lane has stagnated while the building standing next to it, named The Pulse, has reached completion – despite starting [...]

Are Barratt Homes trying to kill people?

Are Barratt Homes trying to kill people in Thornbury in their quest to build more homes? They have erected a security fence with plastic shuttering to protect prying eyes from their building site at the junction of Upper Bath Road and Rock Street. This has created an extremely dangerous situation for vehicles trying to exit [...]

Inconsiderate Barratt Homes

Barratt have not even completed the first house on the estate the are working on at Newbiggin by the Sea in Northumberland but already have the residents of the only access road up in arms. Somehow they were granted planning permission to build 44 houses on a small plot of land just behind the Front [...]

The Poor Quality of Barratt Homes

In summer 2005 I moved into my present flat. It is a so called new build, built by a well-known company, that, for arguments sake, we shall call Barratt. I am neither advising people to stay away from such properties, nor advocating them, but here is one of the problems I’ve had with this developer. [...]

Barratt Homes:AND NEIGHBOUR ISABELL’S HOME HAS PROBLEMS TOO

ISABELL SHUTTLETON’S £194,000 Barratt home has so many problems she wants to move out. The receptionist, also of Kings Meadow, was promised a house in showroom condition but it has cracks in the ceilings, a stair banister hanging off, noisy and moving floors, and windows and doors that don’t fit. Read more:Barratt Homes

Barratt Homes:HOUSE OF HORRORS

14 new ceilings, 4 new toilets, repairs to cornicing, walls and windows, bathroom flooded and floors replaced after sinking. Additional Reporting By Jane Barrie. BERNADETTE and Hugh MacDonald paid more than £200,000 for their “dream” home. But the reality has been very different. Read more:Barratt Homes

Living in our £400,000 Barratt homes has been a nightmare

Angry homeowners protesting about problems with their £400,000 luxury Barratt Homes (archive) have staged a demonstration on a prestigious Barratt estate. Residents on The Hawthorns development in Burnside, Rutherglen, say they have suffered a catalogue of problems since they bought their dream homes. The owners of eight homes have protested outside the builder’s luxury showhouse [...]