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Originally Posted by mmm
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Strangely they managed to build to nearly 10,000 premises here over the course of 7 months operating on the same statutory notices without a newspaper article listing complaints.
There were certainly complaints to local councillors and a bunch of issues, as you'd expect from a construction project of any size, and where Virgin messed up the construction defects were resolved. I'm aware of some of them given I'm kinda to blame for it all
I'm not aware of anyone doing what are minor street works like these informing residents in advance. They don't need the residents' permission, they don't need to 'consult' on minor projects like this and are well within their rights to start at 8am.
I have no idea about the access issues beyond to say that there were issues here, however they were kept to a minimum through opening barriers on demand and using covers to permit access to and from properties, and regarding the rubble, yes, it was kept near properties, but on public land. If the parking spaces are private property the residents have a point, however the story implies they are not.
Given that this estate of less than 300 properties has managed to produce more public complaints in 3 days than ~10,000 premises here over 7 months, and this build includes considerably more new build than Caldecott Chase, I'd suggest that it's not Virgin Media that have the biggest issues in this instance.
I did get a chuckle out of the woman claiming that the residents there are quite 'tolerable' and complaining about Virgin 'bowling' up, though.
That or the best she can say about that estate is that the people there are 'tolerable'. In which case, well...