New homes are ''eyesores''

A new report has slammed some of the top ten volume house builders in the UK for their poorly designed homes.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) has been judging the quality of 2006''s new builds and found the property developer Bellway Homes to fare the worst.

However Cabe found that the standard across the country is "overwhelmingly disappointing" with only 18 per cent of all developments being deemed good or very good and 29 per cent being derided as poor.

A report from the architectural watchdog said: "The quality of a substantial minority of developments is so low that they should not have been given planning permission."

It added that Cabe''s task is not one of doubling the number of exemplar schemes, but eradicating the unacceptable.

However Bellway Homes argued back that good design needs to be balanced against the local context with affordability also being important to possible home owners.


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