Furious couple slam Persimmon after their £183,000 new-build home is ruined by ‘diabolical’ flooded garden
- Kai Harrison, 23, moved into a three-bed with partner Annie, 24, in Nottingham
- He slammed Persimmon after finding the home ‘needed rotovating’ in November
- He described the garden as a ‘bog’ and the housing company as making excuses
- ‘Inclement weather’ prevented the works being completed, spokeswoman said
A furious couple have slammed Persimmon after their £183,000 new-build home was ruined by a ‘diabolical’ flooded garden when they moved in.
Kai Harrison, 23, was moving into a £182,995 three-bedroom property with partner Annie, 24, in the Rivendell estate, Nottingham.
He said the second they looked through the door, they knew it ‘needed rotovating’ in November.
Kai Harrison, 23, has been left fuming after discovering a ‘diabolical’ flooded garden when he moved into his new three-bed property with partner Annie. It needed ‘rotovating’ as soon as he walked through the door, he alleged, before claiming Persimmon kept making excuses to not show up
The garden’s condition was reported to Persimmon Homes Nottingham but nothing had been done months down the line, Mr Harrison alleged.
They ‘didn’t finish the garden, basically’ and it was ‘effectively a bog’ with four or five inches of water standing.
The retail supervisor, from Leicester, added: ‘There’s a paving slab that they’ve abandoned that’s just emerged out, sticking out the ground.’
He also explained its condition hadn’t really changed, despite the recent heavy rain.
The garden of the Rivendell property on the outskirts of Nottingham was ‘effectively a bog’ with four or five inches of water standing, he said. Meanwhile a spokeswoman for Persimmon Homes Nottingham suggested the ‘inclement weather’ prevented the company from completing the works
The couple are said to have been told a month ago, but the new home owner believes it won’t be until February or March.
‘They’re arguing the water needs to disappear out of the garden. Like I keep telling them, it’s not going to.’
However, he added: ‘They are literally building behind my garden and I can see them rotovating and turfing stuff pretty much all the way through that storm that we’ve just had. So they’ve made constant excuses around getting things fixed and dragged their heels.’
A spokeswoman for Persimmon Homes Nottingham, said: ‘We acknowledged the concerns raised by our customer upon completion of his home. All issues have been completed with the exception of the rear garden.’
The ‘inclement weather’ prevented the team from completing the works and they intend to address this as soon as the weather improves, she alleged.
More than 800 properties are expected to be built at the estate in the coming years.
A new school, eco-park and several sports fields all form part of the multi-million-pound project described as a ‘mini-city’ by a council leader.
It comes after another homeowner on the estate previously said mortar was coming away from brickwork – and a separate couple said they’d been treated like ‘kings and queens’ by the developer.