1,100 ghost estates still a ‘serious problem’

More than 1,100 “ghost estates” around the county remain a major problem over their unfinished condition, with some facing the prospect of being bulldozed in the future.

Little or no building work has taken place on more than 69,000 houses identified on such estates — about 37% of the total.

A report on the scale of the problem has found there are 1,770 unfinished housing developments across the country, of which over 1,100 are in a “seriously problematic condition”.