#building-defects

#building-defects

Even multimillionaires can't escape Britain's cowboy builders, it seems. Last week, residents of One Hyde Park, the UK's most expensive flats, won a 35m court case against the contractor that built their homes. The high court ordered the construction company Laing O'Rourke to fix defective pipework that was discovered to be causing problems in 2014, only three years after the luxury development was completed.

Now their patience has run out and some have decided to withhold their rent. Mick, who is disabled, is one of them. "I've got the stage where I think its the only course of action I can do," he explains. "The [housing association] are in breach of contract. I will go to court. I think I would win the case. Any judge would throw it out."