Housing firm slammed as home owners can’t move to flats months after buying them

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To keep up with Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here A block of brand new, ‘beautiful’ affordable housing flats in Timperley is sitting empty, despite all of them having been sold months ago.

The development on Baker Street in the village, from Trafford Housing Trust (THT), looks complete from the outside and home owners of the shared ownership flats were able to go in in May to have a look around, get excited and even have their floors laid.

Some residents are understood to have bought the flats as long ago as October 2020, but more than eight months later, they’re still not able to move in.

A delay in signing off the building, which residents understand to be a result of concerns regarding a smoke extraction system, has