Property developer Barratt and David Wilson Homes Cambridgeshire has announced its decision to demolish 36 of their unoccupied, newly constructed residences.

Residents of the Braid Park estate in Tiverton, Devon, built by Barratt David Wilson Homes, express widespread frustration over unfulfilled promises including lack of a proper road, delay in the provision of a play area, and problems with their gardens, even as the developers pledge to rectify the situation by the end of June.

Mr Russell Newcombe,33, and his wife Carly,35, reserved a plot on the Hillside Gardens estate in Pinhoe in February 2014 after hearing that the area they hoped to move to benefitted from good schools and more importantly that the developers had a good reputation.

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.

RESIDENTS of a new Barratt estate claim the house-builder has gone against planning approval for their homes to save cash.

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.

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.