How exactly 'are' new houses signed off?

[empip]

Recall many years ago - Bradley Stoke - north Bristol - weak mortar, scratch out joints with a nail... Area became known as 'Sadly Broke' during the negative equity period.
From 2018 :-
Weak Mortar New Homes Scandal
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[Harry Bloomfield]

I'm under no illusion about modern housing. I've seen plenty of crap. But I've seen plenty of poor 1960s housing as well. Cold, damp, decayed, poorly designed, rubbish windows. Victorian housing the same; particularly stuff at the rear of the houses - some of it makes me wonder how it didn't fall down years ago.

When you consider how much materials, facilities and methods to build have improved, then modern houses should be built without any faults.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

When you consider how much materials, facilities and methods to build have improved, then modern houses should be built without any faults.

Only if you don't take into account complexity - and modern houses can certainly be complex, especially if aiming for zero C

 

[Odds]

Only if you don't take into account complexity - and modern houses can certainly be complex, especially if aiming for zero C

True.
But it isn't complex builds that are the issue with the faults highlighted in the video - those doors are a bloody disgrace and even a qualified bodger like me wouldn't leave a job like that!

 

[Dork Lard]

I don't think it has anything to do with anything other than cutting £costs.

They are buying up green field sites at agricultural prices, using corrupt influences to gain planning permission for housing, building those houses as cheaply as possible & then selling them on at max market values.

It is all about greed.

 

[securespark]

Maybe there are some builders with attention to detail..?

Developer demolishes £369k home on 'highly-desirable' new estate

Lovell Homes has bulldozed the property on the Weston Woods development

www.stokesentinel.co.uk