Sub Pages & Breadcrumbs help

Hi, I need help with two related issues I'm encountering. Firstly, I have a number of static category pages on my home page. In each of these category pages I am trying to set a subpage folder to keep individual projects underneath each category. However when I set the new subpage folder within the Perch admin settings for that page i.e. '/new-builds' it says it was created successfully and yet if I try to navigate to https://localhost:8888/new-builds it doesn't find anything. I have an active template for individual projects to be created as sub-pages underneath each of category. This is working, however even though I tell the sub-page to have 'new-builds' as its parent, it places itself right underneath the root directory instead?! again, not sure what I'm doing wrong here?? Finally I have a breadcrumbs template configured for these pages > subpages. here is the template below. However It doesn't work properly, in that the class doesn't seem to apply to new links i.e. HOME PAGE > new-builds The HOME link is linkable and gets its class but the new-builds is not linkable and is not getting the class. On top of this, it's not seeing any sub-page underneath new-builds as above issue, it seems to be placing itself at the root level. Is there anything noticeably wrong with this template? Thanks.

<perch:before>
 <div class="breadcrumbs-wrapper">
 <ul class="w-clearfix w-list-unstyled">
</perch:before>
    <li>
        <perch:if exists="perch_item_last">
            <perch:pages id="pageNavText" />
        <perch:else />
            <a class="breadcrumbs-link" href="<perch:pages id="pagePath" />"><perch:pages id="pageNavText" /></a> &gt;
        </perch:if>
    </li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</div>
</perch:after>

Debug Message - Perch 3.0.1
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UPDATE perch3_users SET userHash='53d2931af0cb28e7ef4ae1e3aeb1c297' WHERE userID='1'
[34] SELECT p.privKey FROM perch3_user_privileges p
[13] SELECT settingID, settingValue, userID FROM perch3_settings WHERE userID=1 OR userID=0 ORDER BY userID ASC
[7] SELECT itemValue FROM perch3_menu_items WHERE itemType='app'
[1] SELECT * FROM perch3_pages WHERE pageID=29 LIMIT 1
[1] SELECT * FROM perch3_pages WHERE pageID='12' LIMIT 1
[1] SELECT * FROM perch3_menu_items WHERE itemActive=1 AND itemType='menu' AND parentID=0 ORDER BY itemOrder ASC LIMIT 0, 1
[2] SELECT mi.*, p.privKey FROM perch3_menu_items mi LEFT JOIN perch3_user_privileges p ON mi.privID=p.privID WHERE mi.itemActive=1 AND mi.parentID=1 ORDER BY mi.itemOrder ASC
[1] SELECT itemTitle FROM perch3_menu_items WHERE itemType='app' AND itemValue='content' LIMIT 1
[1] SELECT * FROM perch3_menu_items WHERE itemActive=1 AND itemType='menu' AND parentID=0 ORDER BY itemOrder ASC LIMIT 1, 10
[2] SELECT mi.*, p.privKey FROM perch3_menu_items mi LEFT JOIN perch3_user_privileges p ON mi.privID=p.privID WHERE mi.itemActive=1 AND mi.parentID=2 ORDER BY mi.itemOrder ASC
File: /core/apps/content/modes/page.url.post.php
[16] SELECT p.*, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM perch3_pages WHERE pageParentID=p.pageID) AS subpages FROM perch3_pages p ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC