Cambridgeshire County Council information about the adoption process and it’s progress

We recently wrote to Cambridgeshire County Council requesting information about the adoption process and it’s progress. Here is their reply…

I can confirm that we are working closely with Barratts and Taylor Wimpey in respect of this phase (Phase 2) of the Longstanton development. Once I am advised that the remedial work has been completed, including the street lighting and that the sewers have been adopted by Anglian Water, I can issue the appropriate certificate.     

You may wish to contact Barratts and Wimpey direct should you wish to know their
timetable for completion.

Kind regards

Sue Reynolds

Letters of Complaint – Calling for your support!

By now all residents of Stevensons Road and Duddle Drive should have received their pack containing background information and two letters of complaint to sign and return to the Home Farm Forum for forwarding to your developer and MP.

Please make sure you return these in the next 10 days to 51 Duddle Drive.

Also, please subscribe to this Forum so that you are alerted to new posts and information regarding the General Meeting planned for March 2012.  Click the “Sign me up” button on the right.

Copies of the letters are attached for others on the estate to read.

Intro – Letters of Complaint v2

General Letter to Wimpey v2

General Letter to Barratts v2

general letter to Andrew Lansley MP v2

Letters sent to Developers

Attached are copies of the three letters recently sent by the HFF committee to the developers of the Home Farm Estate to inform them of the recent protest photo and article which will appear in the February 2012 Longstanton Life Magazine.

Persimmon Letter

Wimpey Letter

Barratt Letter

Where Barratt Homes and Taylor Wimpey have got to so far

After a reminder from us here is the latest update from Mark Hadfield, Technical Director, Barratt Homes Northampton

Sorry for the delay in my latest update but much works has been complete at the site as follows and progress is being made daily:

Joint sewer inspections have now been completed with our consulting engineers and Anglian Water to determine the likely remedial worksrequired in order to bring the sewers within the site to an adoptablestandard. These remedial works have also been costed by our contractors.We have discovered through those inspections a defect that requiredfurther investigation located within the Taylor Wimpey part of the siteand I am awaiting confirmation from Tw that we are able to completeinvestigation works to determine the source of this defect.Once this work has been completed we will have our cost for the completion of remedial works in order to seek adoption of the sewers.

Similarly joint inspections have been completed on the roads within thesite and again remedial works have now been costed by our contractors.Again we have discovered an error with the vertical alignment of theroad and commissioned a topographical survey and consulting engineer tocomplete a proposal that meets Highway Authority requirements in orderto bring the roads to an adoptable standard. This design work willcomplete in Feb when we will be able to put a costs to the worksrequired to bring the roads to an adoptable standard.

Once we have these costs we will be able to approach the stakeholdersfor release of the monies currently held in order to fund these requiredworks, this submission is intended to be made in March. On satisfactoryagreement with the former Cofton stakeholders for release of the heldmonies then we should be in a position to complete the required worksand seek ultimate adoption of both the roads and the sewers within the site.

I hope this proves to be a suitable update, as you can see a lot of workhas progressed and whilst other investigation works are underway, wehope to have our submission made to the former Cofton Stakeholdersshortly. Clearly as landowners and fund holders we will need theirapproval before any final works can be completed.

If you wish to comment on this update then please either email Mark Hadfield directly mark.hadfield@barratthomes.co.uk or email us here at the forum and we’ll discuss it when we next meet or send it on to Mark Hadfield or Mark Edmonds at Taylor Wimpey.

Residents disappointed with responses from Barratt Homes and Taylor Wimpey

We have had a number of letters from residents who are more than underwhelmed by the level of detail and quality of the responses from both Taylor Wimpey and Barratt regarding the issues that we are facing on the development.

One resident put it so; I don’t think they could try and fob me off anymore. I believe this letter shows the utter contempt that the building companies hold us in!

We do need to continue to complain about their lack of progress so please keep sending in your letters and copying in your councillors, solicitors and local MP too.

You can find the draft letters of complaint here https://homefarmforum.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/letters-of-complaint/

Letters of complaint

Here are complaint letters to send to Wimpey, Barratt and Persimmon. We have drafted them out so that all you need to do is print them out and write your name and address in the top right hand corner and sign it.

If you could then send it and copies of it either electronically or physically to all of the people listed below that would be appreciated too. You will find all the address details in the contact area of this website.

Barratt_letter

Persimmon_letter

Wimpey_letter

Rt Hon Andrew Lansley, MP Secretary of State for Health

lansleya@parliament.uk

Councillor Shona Johnson, Cambridgeshire CC
shona.johnstone@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Councillor Alex Riley, South Cambridgeshire DC
alex@alexrileywines.co.uk

Mrs Pauline Haywood, Clerk Longstanton PC
lpcclerk@btconnect.com

Anglian Water
custservice@anglianwater.co.uk

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