Building works - or not

A bungalow was demolished down Manor Green Road recently and the snap left shows the rather rough block work of the foundation of the house that will replace it. Will the work now go with a swing, from start to finish and sale?

I wonder because there are several stalled works in our general area.

A major extension to a house at the other end of Manor Green Road, an extension which included stripping all the rendering off the existing house. Scaffolding now removed without the rendering having been replaced.

A small block of maisonettes replacing a couple of caretaker houses next to Blenheim High in Longmead Road. Roof on, but no doors. Not sure about windows. But work has been stopped for a few months now.

A new house on the western approach to the bridge over the railway at Ewell West. A sloping flat roofed affair. Work stopped for a few months now.

The redevelopment of an old house and outbuildings down Court Lane, not far from Court Rec. The old house had been slighted (to use a word from our Civil War) but, again, no further work being done last time I looked.

Then there was a house at the bottom of our own road. Another major extension, stalled for months, but now finished off.

One assumes some combination of customer, builder and banking problems.

PS: see also reference 1 for a previous but recent notice.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/massive-extension.html.