Residents on issues with newbuild estate

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Residents talk about the issues on their West Midlands newbuild estate, including a landslide which has blocked the road, as developers plan to build more homes.

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00:00I'm Rachel Howard just some of the issues we've been having on our new build estate I've been in

00:11my home coming up to three and a half years will be four years in May one of the major issues we've

00:16got is the collapsed retaining wall slash bank behind us it first happened anything between six

00:24and 12 months ago a temporary measure was put into place with lots of sandbags and it unfortunately

00:30was just left we haven't in touch with the local council and MP but unfortunately because we are

00:35a privately owned estate although we do still pay council tax nobody's taking responsibility

00:42the temporary measure that was put in place has now fully collapsed so the road is officially closed

00:49that means roughly 12 houses now do not have access my name is reese alexander i live in

00:55crazy heath and this is the situation that we've been dealing with since march this wall actually

01:00broke in march and all the land came down and over the last nine months it's just got progressively

01:04worse and all we really want is just for someone to fix it because you know people want to get to

01:10the houses park on the drives feel safe waking up in the morning knowing that there's not going to be

01:14any sort of land flashing through the house

01:16you

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