Outraged families say they have been left 'abandoned' on a new-build estate which has no working streetlights and an unfinished road. Neighbours on St Dominic’s Place, in Hartshill, North Warwickshire, report that their area is also being blighted by drainage issues - and have been forced to band together to sort them out themselves. It comes after the local council slapped developer Dunedin Homes and Developments with an enforcement notice in 2023, ordering the company to complete a series of works by March last year. People who have moved in to the area say they are still waiting for a long list issues to be sorted.
Dan Canavan and his family moved onto the estate in 2019 - and say it has fallen far short of what they were promised. The 47-year-old said: “We're being completely ignored. When we bought the house, we were promised street-lighting, signage, a new access road, and a whole landscaping project that has never happened. They put lampposts in, but they never connected them. They left big holes in the tarmac on the pavement around where they put them in. I’ve got little twin girls and one of them went over the hole on a scooter and went flying straight over her handlebars. I sent them a picture of her all scraped up and said, ‘What would you be doing if this was your daughter?’.
“We’ve also had problems with the drainage and Severn Trent wouldn’t do anything about it because, apparently, Dunedin hadn’t completed the paperwork needed for them to adopt it. It took me nine months to get it sorted with Severn Trent. It still hasn’t been adopted. If anything else goes wrong, it’ll be a nightmare all over again.”.
