New Home Owners And Snagging Forum
Getting started => Welcome - Member Introductions => Topic started by: Cdholland6 on May 10, 2023, 07:22:00 am
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Hi Everyone,
After a disastrous 15 months in our Gentoo Homes new build in Northumberland we felt obliged to create a petition to stop it happening to other people.
My UK parliament petition has just been published for stricter regulations on new build houses! Please sign if you agree 🏠 👨⚖️👩⚖️
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637649
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Your petition isn't going to get anywhere because what you want exists now.
Every stage of the house build is inspected by either local authority building control or a private organisation accredited to do it such as the NHBC. In addition there are warranty stage inspections which are more thorough.
This of course depends on whether they are actually carried out as required by law the Building Regulations, and the competence and diligence of the individual inspector.
As for redress, there is now a New Homes Ombudsman, something I spent 8 long years campaigning for.
It is not currently statutory, and is questionably independent, but it now exists, thanks in no small part to my own efforts.