Oliver Wainwright reports on the increasingly poor standards of newly built homes in the UK and what consumers can do to protect themselves
moved into her newly built house, there were issues everywhere she looked: broken tiles, a crack in the roof, a garage door that wouldn’t close, and mould behind the kitchen cabinets. She tellsWhy does the UK’s construction industry build so many poor-quality homes?
“It’s kind of rotten at every possible stage of the industry,” says the Guardian’s architecture and design critic,. “Whether it’s the physical quality of construction, to what’s actually available on offer in terms of the limited range that customers have to choose from, to the kind of monopoly that the big volume house builders have over the supply of land.”
Oliver explains how issues around recruitment, training, and oversight have left the country with thousands of homes that will only stand for a generation.The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work.
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