Residents have blasted developers after paying £550,000 to live on a "desolate" newbuild estate which remains unfinished - FIVE years after people moved in.
Homeowners began moving into brand new modern homes on the multimillion pound Lilly Hay estate in Emstrey, Shrops., back in 2019.
But they say it has been besieged with problems ever since due to uncompleted work which has left people feeling like they are "living on a building site."
Many of the roads and pavements have been left unfinished resulting in massive potholes lining the streets, which are damaging people's cars.
Homeowners began moving into brand new modern homes on the multimillion pound Lilly Hay estate in Emstrey, Shrops., back in 2019.
But they say it has been besieged with problems ever since due to uncompleted work which has left people feeling like they are "living on a building site."
Many of the roads and pavements have been left unfinished resulting in massive potholes lining the streets, which are damaging people's cars.
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00:00The first people moved in in December 2019, so five years this Christmas.
00:05It is dreadful and I've been fighting the cause for at least two years.
00:10We haven't had a site foreman on this estate for two years.
00:15So nobody walks it, nobody understands.
00:18Taylor Wimpy's customer service is absolutely appalling.
00:22And I've been in touch with them monthly, weekly and daily for two years.
00:28And it's been really stressful, it's hard going.
00:30Council don't want to know because they say until it's completely finished they don't adopt the roads.
00:36So until then they don't take it off Taylor Wimpy.
00:39Taylor Wimpy just have nothing to say other than we understand your frustrations.
00:44They have no idea how frustrating it is.
00:48It's frightening, we went 18 months with no street lights whatsoever.
00:53Through the winter it was dangerous, doesn't matter whether it's health and safety issues we're talking of.
00:58They just don't want to know.
01:01Stones, edging, I mean that's, you know, if someone falls down and bangs their head on that.
01:09And the weird thing is this looks like it was meant to be a path doesn't it or something?
01:13I've had no reply at all as to why it's even here.
01:16The only thing I can think, it's a path.
01:18Because currently people are now coming and walking and they walk along here.
01:23And they walk on these people's private drives which they're not supposed to.
01:26And how much are residents paying to have this maintained?
01:30To have this maintained we've just had the bill, £8,000 a year.
01:33Just for Marrington Rush?
01:35Just for this child's play area, yes.
01:37£8,000 a year?
01:39Yes, and it only gets mowed every fortnightly between May and September and the rest of the year it's not touched.