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“The buildings are already in place and pretty much completed - to suddenly find they’re not fit to be occupied and actually need to be demolished is absolutely shocking.”

Dozens of brand new modern homes worth a grand total of £20m are set to be demolished - after problems with their foundations were found. The 36 two, three, four and five-bedroom homes homes were built on a site in Darwin Green, 1.6 miles north west of Cambridge city centre - and just streets from the city’s university.

The developer, Barratt David Wilson Homes, said during inspections of the site they found some of the homes did not meet their “usual high standards”. It has since been decided the “most effective course of action” was to “demolish the properties and re-build them” at a cost of up to £31 million.

Brand new homes worth £20m set to be demolished after problems with foundations uncovered