I READ the article about the poor family who collected their keys for their new home from Persimmon.

Quite honestly, I am not surprised.

I am surprised there has not been some form of investigation up here. Though I live in a housing association house, we are now living in our second home at this site. Our first home, which was part of phase one, had to be given back to Persimmon as there were just too many problems with it.

We moved into another property last July. The property is similar to the family’s you reported in last week’s article. We did first inspect the property.

There were a few minor faults but to our horror, at the top of the stairs, was a hole in the floor about 14” long X 7”

in width.

We could see through into the cavity of the walls where the garages are situated. Funnily enough, it also showed that the walls were not insulated.

This was a property that Persimmon deemed ready for occupation.

From what we can gather, everyone we have spoken to has got problems. There is also a block of flats on the entrance to the development that has had scaffolding around it since last year. This building has some major faults with it.

The community hall was a year late as there were reported major problems and TVBC would not sign off on it.

We have also found out that we too will be having scaffolding put up in front of our property, as we have discovered some more problems with the property.

I am surprised that mortgage companies are giving out mortgages, as they must have heard about the problems here, and of course, also 60 different developments around Britain that Persimmon has got on the go, as indicated by the BBC Watchdog programme.

I am also surprised that people are still buying up here. Of course, Persimmon blame the sub-contractors, but at the end of the day, it’s still Persimmon’s responsibility.

Also, don’t people get fobbed of when Persimmons blame Charles Church and Charles Church blames Persimmons.

Persimmon own Charles Church.

If anytime in the future I was lucky to have the money to build my own home and I found out that any of the people that were quoting for the job, had been working on this site, or similar sites, I would definitely, and probably not with any manners, tell them to leave.

Kevin Smith, Stalls Road, Picket Twenty, Andover.

 

The Advertiser put these complaints to the developers.

Matt Paine, managing director of Charles Church South Coast, said: “We have experienced some technical issues with a small number of properties for which we apologise, but we are working closely with purchasers and tenants to rectify them as swiftly as possible.

“These are isolated incidents among the properties already constructed on this substantial development and are not reflective of the overall quality of the scheme which itself has won two national Pride in the Job Awards.

“This remains one of our most popular developments, forming part of the fantastic new community at Picket Twenty.”