The bleak truth of life on a new-build estate: Unending row of identikit fenced-off back gardens is highlighted by social media account that details new-build horrors
- Members of the public have been sharing photographs of home design failures
- Many social media users have been mocking the unconventional options
These are some of the appalling scenes faced by people who move into new build estates, curated by a popular twitter account.
Members of the public are encouraged to send in photographs of seemingly poor design for them to be shared widely with people on the internet who often mock the architecture.
One recent image featured a rectangular block of red brick houses with six-foot high timber fences marking out the back gardens with a seemingly random assortment of lines.
Instead of a series of straight lines, dividing the gardens equally between each house, the fences squirrel from one end of the terrace to the other, randomly weaving in and out.
Other houses showed street furniture blocking driveways or pieces of cladding missing from a new build property.
Twitter account Hate Newbuild posted this image of a strange back garden in an unidentified housing estate
The twitter account often shares design failures spotted by members of the public in new build estates across the country
Others feature houses where some fittings may have fallen off, or others where design features make the completed properties look odd.
In one case, a broadband or telephone communication box was built blocking access to a parking space.
Another shows a flat’s balcony built away from the window and patio door of the apartment.
Others show a garage door blocked by a newly-installed lamppost while many properties listed feature crumbling walls and rising damp.
In many cases, taller buildings have had ‘fake brick’ cladding installed which has been photographed disintegrating after a few years exposure to the elements.
In this case, a decorative cover above the windows has fallen off due to the use of an incorrect adhesive. The architect wanted it to look like the widows were installed below a stone cut lintel
The account @HateNewbuild posted the image with the caption: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if the developers threw in a fruit tree in at the bottom of each garden.’
One person replied: ‘Problem is, 99% of the new owners would then remove those trees because they can’t be arsed to look after them and can’t deal with the few leaves that fall off them in the autumn.’
Another joked: ‘Leaves are a nightmare blocking up the Dyson when you’re hoovering your fake grass turf, you’re right.’
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The house has not been completed and has irregular gaps in the brickwork
Others pointed out the tragedy for wildlife created by such design.
‘Hedgehogs don’t stand a chance!’ one lamented.
Another said: ‘All new housing developments should (in my view) by law have a % of green space, hedgehog holes, wild areas etc… planning permission should not be allowed unless this is in place from beginning.’
One said: ‘It’s awful. It should be mandatory for developers to put trees in, have hedgehog highways cut in EVERY fence and to the outside, and fit swift bricks and bird boxes to every house, as law.
‘This is so bad for people’s mental health, not to mention the ecology, flooding, etc etc’
‘This is why Britain sucks,’ another said, while one added: ‘I’d rather be homeless.’
One replied: ‘Really awful and actually so depressing.
‘Really hope new owners and neighbours can come up with some mutually acceptable solution.
‘Hedging possibly instead of fence panels.’
Others said they would be ‘depressed’ living there, one chimed in ‘zero imagination’ while one described it as ‘tragic.’
‘Planning is completely broken in the UK,’ another said.
But others saw the funny side.
‘As a teenager that would be perfect for garden hopping…who can do the most fences and get back to home base without getting caught,’ one joked.
Another said: ‘No different to the gardens of hundreds of thousands of terraced houses from the 1900s except they are 4x the size and don’t have a ten foot running down the middle.
‘What developers should be forced to do is add mature trees down the centre line and plant more vegetation.’
But another responded jokingly: ‘How can you say that, look at the beautiful curvature to the fencing. I’d love to wake up to that vista, inspiring.’
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