Fed-up residents have told how they've been forced to live next to a £100 million half-finished 'ghost' housing estate for nine months after its developers went bust. Locals have been left living near the partially constructed 'eyesore' newbuild development in Clipstone, near Mansfield , after all work was abandoned back in October . Since then, the unfinished homes have been taken over by wildlife - including deer and foxes - leaving it "like something from The Last of Us".
Homeowners say the properties were left frozen in time after Sherwood Oak Homes fell into administration last autumn having built just 30 of the 313 homes. However, there's now fresh hope for the 26 acre development to be finished after it was sold to Persimmon Homes in a multi-million-pound deal . People living nearby say they now want the houses to be completed as soon as possible.
Get the latest news straight to your phone by joining us on WhatsApp Others are concerned whether people would want to pay £500,000 to live in their "old pit village" anyway even once the modern homes are all built. Great-grandmother-of-three June Harrison, 76, a retired control clerk, said: "They’ve been empty since last October. “They look like they would be beautiful houses so it’s been a real shame.
You’re just left wondering all the time what’s going to happen to them. It’s a bit creepy to see but now there’s two deer living in there at the moment. We’ve got foxes and everything living in there.
“We'd.