A NEWBUILD estate has been left abandoned for seven years â all because of a row over a very expensive wall.
A planning stalemate led to the fully completed, in a Cornish village being boarded up and left empty.
The Calstock housing estate which has been deserted and left boarded up
The brand new homes are empty amid the planning row stalemate
A fallen railing is pictured on the ghost town estate
The developer blamed council costs for the desertionin Bridge View, Calstock, had planning permission granted in 2018.
Parish councillor Dorothy Kirk called it a ”; tragic situation where everybody loses”;.
One of the directors behind the development claimed his firm had put aside £2.8m for 15 s but council delays cost them £1.2m.
He accused the council of “weaponizing”; planning agreements and blocking the sale of finished houses.
The additional costs included the requirement of building a more complicated drainage system, a second road, and a large retaining wall priced at around £750,000.
In turn the council said it has “done all in its power to work with the company”;.
As of January 2024, there were 160 households on the waiting list for homes in the parish.
Cllr Kirk told the BBC: “We have to find a solution. I don’t want Calstock to be deprived of homes, I don’t want to see the developer lose everything. We have to have houses for local people.”;
Cornwall Council said it was “committed to working with developers that have been granted planning permission to ensure that a housing development, and the agreed number of affordable housing homes, are delivered in line with the planning permission”;.
It is understood to be reviewing a revised planning application for the site.
Another has been dubbed a “horrendous chalk scar”;.
Disgruntled locals have slammed the developers who went bust and expressed fears the area of “scenic beauty”;, in, could become a “ghost town”;.
There deserted site, on Folkestone Road, has 29 empty new builds.
And ill-fated construction work has left a huge band of chalk exposed on the landscape.
A paint can left deserted on the bran new estate
The Calstock housing estate has 33 new homes
The Calstock housing estate which has been deserted and left boarded up 
