A housing company building nearly 1,000 brand new homes in West Bridgford has set up a £3.5m fund to spend on repairing their faulty homes in the UK.
Work is currently underway to build 979 homes in Sharphill Woods and developers Bovis Homes are part of the group which want to build more properties at the top end of Musters Road.
A planning application was submitted to Rushcliffe Borough Council on April 25 by John A Wells and Bovis Homes to build 600 additional houses along with a primary school and community park.
500 objections have been made to the additional new homes because the site is near a ‘dangerous junction’.
The plans have been proposed for the site west of Melton Road, south of Muster Road and east of Sharphill Wood, Edwalton.
The council previously allocated the site as a spot for 1,500 homes to be built.
In their trading update, Bovis Homes said: “We have made good progress addressing a high level of customer issues in the first half.
“Following the CEO’s review of the business, the Group has taken a further £3.5m of provision in the first half, taking the total one-off costs related to these legacy issues to £10.5m, of which £7.0m was provided for in 2016.
“This further provision will ensure we are fully resourced to complete the works identified as swiftly as possible whilst at the same time delivering the appropriate high level of service to our new customers.
“We are confident that all legacy issues are now identified and that where possible these issues will be fully dealt with and the related costs incurred during this financial year.”
Group CEO Greg Fitzgerald said: “The trading performance in the first half of our financial year is in-line with management expectations.
“In the past 11 weeks, I have spent a good amount of time with each of our operating regions, visited 85 sites and met the vast majority of our people.
“We continue to identify and implement operational improvements and I am very confident we can deliver a successful turnaround, returning Bovis Homes to being a leading UK housebuilder.
“I look forward to providing an update on the Group’s strategy with the presentation of our half year results in September.”
The council has not yet approved or decided on the plans for the additional 600 homes and will not make a decision until July 25.
The authority says it will consider residents’ comments about the proposals until that date.
A council spokesman said the application is not scheduled to go before a planning committee meeting – but not all cased are determined by a committee.
The spokesman said: “At present we are considering the representations that have been made by statutory consultees, local residents and other interested parties.
“We have brought the issues raised to the applicant’s attention and are awaiting their response. If any material revisions are made to the application we would carry out appropriate re-consultation.”
