HOUSEBUILDER Persimmon has built an entire block of flats the wrong way around with windows facing backwards.

       The major UK developer made the shocking blunder while constructing 262 properties at a new housing estate in Essex.

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       Colchester councillor Martin Goss said Persimmon built a block of flats backwards Credit: SWNS

       Builders put up the one, two, and three-bedroom flats - along with their windows, doors and balconies - the wrong way round.

       Colchester councillor Martin Goss said the "major cock-up" was "mystifying".

       He said: "It just beggars belief, how on earth can a developer build a set of flats the wrong way?

       "To build something completely the wrong way is a major cock-up. How can a national developer make such a major mistake?

       "If a builder makes a mistake, they have to bear the consequences of that.

       "It's gone through a long process and a number of iterations to get where it is today but obviously they now need to build it to the agreed plan."

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       The developer has previously come under fire for other blunders, including a leaky sewage system that allegedly left a family in Derby covered in rashes.

       Another alleged mistake saw a homeowner in Cardiff force the company to knock down and rebuild his walls that apparently contained damaged bricks.

       A spokesman for Persimmon Homes said that some alterations had already been made to the homes in Colchester.

       He said: "We have made some limited alterations to the position of some windows during the early stages of construction, in line with our planning consent."

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