It's an image straight out of a post-apocalyptic film: incomplete roads, hazardous pavements, and piles of rubble; all symptoms of what the new residents of the Corelli housing development are calling a total eyesore.

Gurwinder Singh, a 43-year-old delivery driver, has found himself at the centre of a three-year-long battle over the home he intended to be a sanctuary for his family.

From misaligned doors to potential electrical hazards, these housing mishaps highlight the dire need for stronger building protocols.

David Walker, a 52-year-old builder, thought he had secured his family's dream house when they purchased a £600,000 new build in Devizes, Wiltshire, from Ashford Homes last April.

Angry homeowners in Worcester have lambasted property developers for leaving their expensive new housing estates appearing like an 'extended construction site,' with roads unfinished three years after the first residents moved in.

In response to alarming declines in bird populations, Conservative MPs in the UK are supporting the drive to legislate the inclusion of swift bricks in all new housing developments.

Officials from Bloor Homes, the company behind a much-debated new housing project in Rochford, have made a public statement addressing concerns about an infestation of Japanese knotweed at the proposed site.