Furious residents who paid up to £300,000 for new homes say they are living “in a nightmare” following a catalogue of building blunders.<br /><br />Homeowners on the Broad Lea development on the edge of Worcester say their concerns about the state of their homes have been ignored for two years.<br /><br />Residents have complained about flooding, dodgy electrics, a foul smell coming from the drains and ill-fitting doors, windows and carpets and crumbling brickwork. <br /><br />Fed-up people who bought homes on the shared-ownership development have set up the Broad Lea and Oldbury Road Residents Group.<br /><br />The action group are taking legal action against landowners Platform and developers United Living who opened the estate in 2021.<br /><br />Pictures and videos have been catalogued by the residents of the 13 properties showing a string of alarming problems.<br /><br />One clip shows water gushing from under the sink of one home which caused the entire ground floor to flood.<br /><br />Another video shows a workmen emptying a cement mixture down a drain – fuelling fears a foul sewage odour is caused by blockages.<br /><br />Other pictures show a floor being covered with a carpet which is too short, leaving the sharp grippers rods exposed.<br /><br />Another snap also shows uneven brickwork outside and clumsily fitted hinges on a garden gate.<br /><br />Many residents say dodgy plumbing regularly causes their bathrooms to flood leaving them with damp patches on the ceilings downstairs. <br /><br />Bad drainage in the back gardens also means that when it rains “craters” fill will water leading to flooding of lawns and flower beds.<br /><br />Residents also say the roads outside their properties are unfinished and peppered with potholes.<br /><br />Homeowner Shaun Barnes, 35, said: "We have been fobbed off at every turn after complying with everything they have asked for at every turn. It has been horrific.<br /><br />"Every private home on the development is involved in this action and we want answers. <br /><br />“We are well and truly fed up, it has been two and a half years of being lied to.<br /><br />"We saw shared ownership as a great way to get onto the property ladder, it was sold to us as a good opportunity.<br /><br />"Unfortunately it has not been that, it has been extremely stressful and we feel like cash cows for massive companies."<br /><br />The homeowners were given a 12-month defect period where they raised issues with the development.<br /><br />They claim that in this time, barely anything was addressed, and after a 24-month defect period they are in the same situation.<br /><br />Mr Barnes said: "Legal action is currently ongoing as it is the last thing we can try and do for a resolution.<br /><br />"United Living and Platform have not met their own deadlines for sorting out the many issues so legal action is our last chance."<br /><br />Another resident said: “Buying this property was the worst mistake of my life. I was sold a dream but I actually bought a nightmare.<br /><br />“Everything in my house is badly done and almost every house on the development has suffered similar problems.<br /><br />“In several of the houses the dodgy plumbing means the bath
