Snagging Checklist

Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.

In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...

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.

I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly. If you’re female, aged 35-60yrs old, match the above criteria are willing to tell your story to a national publication, please email me at sophie.hoyland@natmags.co.uk with a brief outline of your story along with a photo of yourself by Monday 12th May. If your story is used you...

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.

Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.

In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...

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.

I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly. If you’re female, aged 35-60yrs old, match the above criteria are willing to tell your story to a national publication, please email me at sophie.hoyland@natmags.co.uk with a brief outline of your story along with a photo of yourself by Monday 12th May. If your story is used you...

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.