I attach an extract taken directly from the MLH website. The independent snagging inspection is being removed!!!!!! I for one am not prepared to accept this. The history of this company preparing properties for snagging is woeful. We have all been hearing stories of how bad people are finding things and that is AFTER Cardiff Smith (the snagging inspector) has been involved. Just how bad is it going to be now that he is not involved at the earlier stage. What this means is that we are all going to be asked to waste airfares visiting a property not yet ready and with plenty of mistakes, bad finishes, broken items etc. They really don't care how much they offend us. We should all refuse to attend a snagging meeting until an independent inspection has been carried out. Of course we could always pay for our own independent snagging company to do that but why should we when it has been provided to others for nothing. Not that this was such a magnanimous gesture but more was forced on MLH because complete anarchy was erupting as a result of the poor standard of presentation. Well what has changed!! Do we really think that they will now be better than they were before?
Refuse to attend unless a professional snagging is carried out before you visit!!
This is the extract from MLH website
Update as at 24/10/06 - Following a further review of the snagging procedure, and due to the fact that virtually all blocks now have the first occupancy licence, it has been decided that the Developer will pre-snag the newly released apartments and that the independent snagging company will support the rectification process of any snag items once the purchasers have completed their inspection visit.