About Laurus Homes
Laurus Homes is a profit-for-purpose housing development company, part of Trafford Housing Trust. The homes Laurus build can be purchased through a range of options including Shared Ownership and Help to Buy.
We love the design of the house, however the standard of the fixtures and fittings is poor. It does not reflect the cost of a semi detached house over 400k! Cheap and slap dash standard of materials and work. We have had to chase our snag list weekly and it is still yet to be done. No one seems to know who is meant to be doing what. Probably wouldn’t recommend them to people to be honest!
We love the local area and all of the local shops and pubs! Great walks within the area and it is a lovely place to live. Good transport links with the train station a few minutes away. Parking is limited, bin collections have been missed over the last few weeks but they have then been quick to come and remove them. Usual site traffic with living on a site that still has work going on.
Better communication and also being able to view the property sooner.
Responded once chased several times! Yet still to see anything being done.
The company you buy from are not the company who physically build the houses. The selling company say one thing, the cowboys building the houses do another. Generally the cheapest, worst, unskilled way. There’s no management, there’s no pride, there’s nobody to put trust in
The location is the pull. The builders are awful. The quality is bad. Their attitude stinks. They need to get some quality people and spend money instead of cutting massive corners.
How truly awful the developers are and how ignorant they seem
We’ve been charged but there’s nothing to manage. There’s no proper roads, drainage is awful and no amenities as plans. Builders have walked off site.
The building designs are flawed. Only when inside do you realise sockets, radiators etc are in the worst places. The materials are economy/budget, so fixtures and fittings are not good. There is no site management. The development is a dangerous mess.
The best aspect is the beautiful forest over the road. Unfortunately, the avalanche of problems and upsets with the shocking companies selling and building the development overshadows everything. They’re awful in every possible way.
How bad Laurus Homes/Trafford Housing Trust are and how shocking the standards of Lane End are.
There is no building management in place because the site is no way hear finished after 5 years.
The building itself is great and we’ve not noticed any major problems. The design is one of things that sold us on the house and were more than happy with it. The only problem was the delay to the move in date as we had to wait a year from the expected move in date
Not far away from the Tesco or Londis if you need to pick anything up you can usually get to it within a 5 minute walk. Don’t hear anything in regards to traffic and everything seems more than fine
The lack of parking space around the estate. If you have people over you are most likely going to block a drive
They’ve accepted the problems and we are awaiting for them to come out and sort them