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At what stage did you move Into your new build?

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Outandabout43 · 10/12/2023 12:06

Just as the title says really, obviously the house was finished, however was the estate? Was the drive or garden complete? How was access to the property? Where the pavements and roads complete?

Just interested to see how long we have left to wait.

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SnowsFalling · 10/12/2023 12:15

House, drive, garden all complete.

Road was surfaced, but not with its final tarmac. Manholes etc were raised. Pavements were present, but again needing a final layer of tarmac - so they looked like pavements, but were a cm or so lower than the kerbstones. No working streetlights for a while.

Pretty sure the roads and pavements round us were finished before DS1 was born, but also remember walking round the corner to watch the diggers (and chat to the very amenable workers) when on maternity with DS2....

How long is a piece of string is probably a reasonable answer as to how long you need to wait.

Cotswoldbee · 10/12/2023 13:06

The house, garden & drive were complete as was our local section of road. The only part incomplete was the road entering the estate that all traffic has to use, no point in that being surfaced/block-paved while lorries etc were still using it.
The road was swept on a daily basis.

The only part that the developer was (very) slow to complete was the large open spaces. Took a while to be fully landscaped and even now is incomplete and untidy but they are currently on site planting trees/shrubs. Also the playground is still fenced off, very strange.

Bluevelvetsofa · 10/12/2023 16:07

Our developer released houses in batches, so several families moved in at the same time. Everything was in place, the open spaces were complete, the front gardens landscaped, pavements, lighting, roads completed.

A previous new build had none of that when we moved in and the removal lorry trundled over sand and damaged the area and had to pay the builders to complete the road and front gardens.

Bluevelvetsofa · 10/12/2023 16:08

Our house was probably finished by early summer. We moved at the end of August.

ChessieFL · 10/12/2023 16:10

We moved into our new build in September last year. They finally finished tarmacing the road in September this year!!

Bluelightbaby · 10/12/2023 16:13

We moved in pretty much the day they finished it lol road and pavements weren’t finished though

ChristmasPuddy · 10/12/2023 16:14

In my development the houses are finished one by one and the ‘keep out’ fence gets moved back basically weekly! Drives done gardens turfed and fences are done.

Landscaping in communal green spaces seems to be done once a chunk of houses are finished.

The pavement and road have been done but aren’t properly finished. I guess they will do that and add speed bumps when the street is finished!

ohtowinthelottery · 10/12/2023 16:22

House, garden and driveway all finished but road didn't have top layer of tarmac on and the house next door hadn't been built yet. Can't remember how long it was before the development was finished as we moved in 31 years ago!

Christmasss · 10/12/2023 16:25

I’ve lived in three new builds, and house, driveway and garden were all complete each time.
We did have an issue with one of the new builds where the drive didn’t look as if it would be complete so the mortgage lender was going to hold back some funds until it was complete. The house builder however did finish it in time.

SausageAndEggSandwich · 10/12/2023 16:30

House, garden, drive and pavement all complete. Road not surfaced though, but we've got road sweepers most days to keep the mud down.

The gate to the development has moved a couple of hundred metres away in the time we've lived here - it was opposite the house when we moved in.

RainbowUtensils · 10/12/2023 18:08

House, drive and garden complete, but we were the last to move in in our section of the estate. Road not completed until all works down our way were done (about 6 months, as we have the park nearby), but other areas of the estate were still being built.

It totally depends on the size of your estate, and how far along the development is, so afraid none of us can tell you...

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Outandabout43 · 10/12/2023 18:37

House and Garden done, gas to be connected Monday.

Literally a street with 36 houses, ours is at the entrance of the street.

Drive yet to be done, and the pavement and road to be resurfaced at the entrance (at the front of ours and attarched neighbours) , bottom 2/3 of street has pavements and fully finished road.

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SuddenlyOld · 10/12/2023 19:35

We moved to a new build on a 1200 house development. We were phase 1 and some families had been living there 2 years. We stayed for 5 and they probably have another 5 left.

Our street wasn't tarmaced for a year. No footpaths off the estate. No buses for 2 years. A school but no shop or playground or anything. If you didn't have a car you were effectively trapped.

After 2 years we got a path to the next estate so a 2 mile walk to a shop. We had to complain to council, MP and local paper before they gave in.

The dust and noise were an ongoing nightmare. Couldn't wait to move away. Never again.

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