Tuesday 17 May 2022 07:28 AM 'Devastated' family left living on construction site for nearly a YEAR after ... trends now
A family have been forced to live on a building site for months after their builder downed tools with more than £50,000 of their money in his pocket.
Carmel, 35, and Gareth Ponsford, 42, had paid an initial £30,000 for builder Carl Harrison Mills to carry out work inside their house in Stroud, Gloucestershire, including creating separate bedrooms for their three children.
The builder abandoned work halfway through the job in August 2021 after demanding more money — and has stopped all contact with the couple.
Builder Carl Harrison Mills downed tools with more than £50,000 of the Ponsfords money
He had been hired to carry out work inside their house in Stroud, Gloucestershire, including creating separate bedrooms for their three children
They have since secured a county court judgement against Mr Mills for a total of £53,263.95 that he owes them after the builder did not defend the case.
The couple and their children, two of whom have autism, have been left living on a building site for almost a year and felt forced to take the builder to court over the unfinished work.
Mrs Ponsford, a parish council clerk, said: 'We are devastated. We work so hard and it's all been what it seems like for nothing.
'We just wanted a bedroom and safe space for the kids, because they all need that.
Carmel, 35, and Gareth Ponsford, 42, have been forced to live on a building site for months with their three children, after the job was abandoned by their builder
