Persimmon Complaint

AliKate

I am looking for advice on where to go next with a problem we are having with persimmon. we bought our new build at the end of may. When we reserved our house it was fully built and garden complete with fences up around the property we had a choice of a few properties but liked our own. Our first problem arose when persimmon put scaffolding up in our garden and over our driveway and took our fence down to build next door but we were unable to do anything to stop this. Today my garden is like a bomb has hit it grass is ruined driveway is covered in cement but they have just told us we have too much land and they need more room to finish next door so are shortening the width of our driveway and garden. the driveway is narrow anyway you can only open the doors of the car on one side now they are shortening it one of our cars will not fit at all. I am furious they have sold us a house using a larger garden and driveway now think its alright to take it away we have complained to the director at persimmon and just got a letter back saying sales cant have been expected to know the exact size of the property!!. I am unsure where to go now do i go down the costly route of lawyers to take on persimmon? Persimmon are not taking us seriously at all.:mad:

ILW

Waht do the deeds say about the size of your plot?

firstaspect

Does the land registry not show exactly what land is yours from when you purchased the new build?

ztan

You should have a copy of the plans, deeds and land registry... get them all, have a look and then check with someone who can provide legal advice whether they are doing anything wrong.

Doozergirl

I would gather the information above; check your deeds for boundaries etc and then go and see your solicitor.

It may also be covered by the Properties Misdescriptions Act as they placed boundary markers etc that have since changed so I would speak to your local authority's Trading Standards department.

F_T_Buyer

1st Issue:

Have a look in your contract, and it will probably say there will be disturbances while building the development, however they have to put everything back and leave as new. But this is only temporary.

2nd Issue:

This is the major one. You really need to get on to your solicitor; make sure you have lots of photos of your drive etc - also refer to your title plan, this will be to scale and will be very exact. They cannot move a boundary, and you couldn't have bought it without a title plan (TP1).

But make sure you get photos, lots and lots of photos!!!!! If this goes to court, you will rely on them. Also add the day+time stamp on the photos!!!


I bought a persimmon home last year, and they had cut the corner off my boundary (by about a foot), but they happily moved the fence when I complained (it would have a looked odd with my garden not rectangular).

Let us know how you get on.

mark5

When I bought a Barratt house in 2006, Barratt give one of my neighbours to much land at the side of his house, approx 2m width but over the full depth of the garden this was quite a lot of extra garden for a new build.

The site plan showed he wasnt meant to have the land but his deeds included it in his boundary, 4 years on and he still has the land.

F_T_Buyer

mark5 wrote: »

When I bought a Barratt house in 2006, Barratt give one of my neighbours to much land at the side of his house, approx 2m width but over the full depth of the garden this was quite a lot of extra garden for a new build.

The site plan showed he wasnt meant to have the land but his deeds included it in his boundary, 4 years on and he still has the land.

The thing is in this case the deeds are that matters, not the site plan from the developer.

AliKate

F_T_Buyer wrote: »

1st Issue:

Have a look in your contract, and it will probably say there will be disturbances while building the development, however they have to put everything back and leave as new. But this is only temporary.

2nd Issue:

This is the major one. You really need to get on to your solicitor; make sure you have lots of photos of your drive etc - also refer to your title plan, this will be to scale and will be very exact. They cannot move a boundary, and you couldn't have bought it without a title plan (TP1).

But make sure you get photos, lots and lots of photos!!!!! If this goes to court, you will rely on them. Also add the day+time stamp on the photos!!!


I bought a persimmon home last year, and they had cut the corner off my boundary (by about a foot), but they happily moved the fence when I complained (it would have a looked odd with my garden not rectangular).

Let us know how you get on.

Thanks Thats what ive done took loads of photos and my solicitor is dealing with persimmon at the moment.