Land For Park Homes
Sat, 03/05/2011 - 09:33
by iswim2011I see there is a recant article on this site about park homes that being that you can own a Park home but where you have the thing situated the land belongs to Mr Smith for example.
So it is up to the land owner to provide various services but often when it come to the local authorites people were a bit unsure of what there rights were etc.
Well from what I read on this article the government are going to take steps to make all is clear and everyone will know where they stand as it were. That is who is responcible for x, y & z and so on.
I have to say that although these park homes are a good form of accomodation just like any property you decide to buy and that is you should always do your research first as I am sure any person would. At the end of the day if you buy a car you don't buy the first one because it is a nice shiny blue or the first property has a nice garden.
Still at the end of the day I would say it has to be a good thing the government are actually going to do something that is of use to the everyday person and not themselfs.
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what are the rules/laws regarding planning permission for mobile home and park homes in the uk?
if i were to buy (or rent) a piece of land, probably in a rural area in the uk, would i be allowed to put a static caravan/mobile home/park home on there or would i need planning permission? also if i were to build my own basic structure from timber resembling a park home, what would the situation be with that one? i wouldn't be thinking of selling it so that is not a factor. many thanks
you will need planning permission (even if you are a gypsy)
you need to talk your local planning office.they normally have a duty officer who will advise you if you call in.
development in the country is very constrained outside a settlement boundary. the Local Development Framework or Core Strategy will specify what they normally allow +where.
one exception is if you are making charcoal and need to be on site 24-7.
it depends on previous use of the site; number of visitors you expect; local services; road access ...
There are also strict rules on materials and placement of park homes due to fire risks, gas canisters, and health issues of condence/damp and formaldahyde off-gassingIf you could purchase 6 acres of land for a Gypsy park, which politicians home would you camp next to?
Blair for allowing any old rubbish into this country.mobile home park rules?
can tinge dean ( under pressure from bedfordshire central council ) new owners of a mobile home park force old people in their eighties and ninties on pensions..make them remove sheds and pay for metal ones pay for hard standings out of concrete and block paving etc etc all at their expense even though they have been errected over 10 years ( sheds) etc .. note the old people own the mobile home and rent the land off tinge dean ....please help the old folk.
Not a lot anyone can do except protest. The new owners own the land. There have been many cases like this over the years with mobile home sites and new owners.
UKI am looking for land for sale, with planning permission.N/W Cornwall?
We are looking for a piece of land up to1 acre to erect X2 park type homes, P/P or outline P/P required, preferably with services onsite or available nearby. Up to £70000 available
Try buildstore.com they will have link to plotfinder which lists plots all over the country, I am not sure if its a free service but worth a look.Housing problems?????
With the number of homeless people rising and the continual growth of the council housing lists.
What do you think of this solution.
Park Homes! No, I don't mean the caravans you see on the holiday sites, I mean the prefabricated homes with tiled roofs, up to three bedrooms, central heating and double glazing.
These things look just like a modern bungalow, they can be purchased for between 60 to 90,000 (probably cheaper if you buy in bulk)
The councils must have acres and acres of land on which to site these homes and rent them out.
Construction time is a matter of hours and within a short space of time would go a long way towards alleviating the housing crisis.
The Park Homes could be rented for say, 5 years, then at the end of that time, sold off and removed from site to be replaced with new ones for continuation of rental.
This would create employment, housing opportunity and would alleviate the strain on benefits and council services.
It would give those living in mortgage misery a way out and would cause a drop in the house prices in the UK.
HiApe Creature
dont think the cost would be too great, I bet if the council ordered 5000 of these they would get them at least half price.
They still have fortunes from the sale of the council houses and the cost of bed and breakfast for those for whom they dont have housing must be horrendous
Carousel
Sorry i dont understand your point.
The alternative is families on the street or in bed and breakfast.
Your term "Council Estate" makes it sounds like you dissaprove. There are some excellent council estates in the UK (yes there are some horrendous ones) but the same can be said of private estates (like the one near Birmingham which protested against a local house being purchased for the recuperation of injured servicemen)
There are also a hell of a lot of people who have "Paid all that money" for house purchase, which in the end turns out to be "Worth Nothing"
emslove
Hi there, you obviously (by your answer) sound like you work somewhere in the housing industry.
You must know therefore that the local authority have a duty of care to those families who find themselves homeless.
They are obliged to do everything in their power to resolve that situation.
These Park Homes are not classed as permamnent fixtures, threfore he planning laws are far more lax.
The costs would be negligable when compared to the costs of affording B & B for the homeless.
As for "Poor Estates", a lot of that problem can be solved by layout and size allowed and by vetting the type of residents allowed and applying the social behaviour laws to the letter
You are absolutely right! Around York we have quite a number of these sites and we have friends living on one of them. It's about 8 miles from the City centre and three miles from the nearest market town. It has a monitored electronic gated entrance and is beautifully laid out. The buildings quite shocked me the first time i went to visit and i was taken through all four designs which are on site. They are simply beautiful. Lovely pine exteriors with tiled roofs, well laid out gardens and decent safe walkways around each property plus tarmac drives and circuit road. Each has a stunning kitchen, most with granite worktops (our friends have the matching granite on the floor in tiles) and top of the range Neff appliances of the owners choice. All the rooms are large and airy. The walls are plasterboard so you can paint or wallpaper to your hearts content and probably the best thing about them is they are so cheap to heat! You don't pay council rates either as you pay a site fee so overall you are actually paying out less than a third of what you would to the local council. Banks and building society's will give you a mortgage on them as they will last as long as a conventional house providing they are maintained correctly. It's a win win situation for any council who really wants to look after its rate payers.
Let's not forget that we are only just starting to see the edges of this horrendous recession, it's going to be with us for a long time. In about 18 months we should start to see a bit of light on the horizon but until then it's batten down the hatches time for the u.k. and any ideas like this should be applauded not denigrated by anyone. Unless you have a substantial amount of money off shore don't think that you're not going to be seriously affected. Our existing councils should be sorted out so that only the genuine people who want to help are left at the helm and the rest should be made redundant - that should sort the wheat from the chaff!19 and having a baby...is there more to life?
Hi, i am 19 and just found out im 5 weeks pregnant! I am a little unsure of whether or not keeping the baby will be doing the right thing though, i would like some VERY honest answers please.
I work full time as an accountant for a firm, i have been doing so for two years. I also have to study one day a week when not at work at college to qualify as an accountant if i pass i will be qualified next June 2009. I am in a relationship that has been going strong for over 16 months now, however there are always hick ups in relationships. Well my partner already has a three year old child, him and the mother broke when the little girl was just over a year old, i asked him why and he says tehy didnt love each other anymore and that they always argued,they were too young and that he was made a very big mistake in his life. They have been split up now for two years, he doesnt get to see his daughter much due to he does not want to speak to the mother as she just constntly wants an argument. I agreed for her to deal through me - like a fool- but that didnt make anything any easier, i kept getting msgs saying that i ruined there relationship, but they had split before i came along, and that its my fault he doesnt see his child, but whenever i ask him if he wants to have her overnight or if i buy her something he isnt interested, but the mother feels it is me. This upsets me as i would never stop him seeing his daughter!! If i ask him why he dont ever have her or talk about her, he says its because it started where hed had enough of her always ringing about nothing just for an argument but would never talk about his daughter, and now he has slowly moved on.he says he is there for his child, but there is nothing he can do at the minute with a moter like that.
Is this because he still loves her, or has he just had enough and moved on with me???
Also, we currently live in a mobile home on hisd fathers land but if we keep the baby, we are getting a park home twin unit, like a bungalow so our baby has a nice home to grow up in. I work but he does not, every time he gets a job he doenst like it and doesnt last no more than 5 weeks. He brings home some money but very rarely. But when he was with his ex partner he would work anywhere, he even used to work away, he paid for all his exes phone bills finance car, the baby had everything but with me, because i work i pay his phone bill, car insurance and all the shopping, and all his clothes, and when he washes up he thinks hes done the world. I would be paying for our new home, he promises to get a job now im pregnant and will get me a nice car. But am i just being taking for a mug?
When were together he is really sweet and never wants to do anything without me, even when he has boy nights, he likes me to join in, i dont understand. I love him but is this just heading for a big mistake, i dont want my baby ending up like his exes, or us arguing after the baby is born and us splitting up, i always wanted to stay...Not to be controversial but you'll struggle to get impartial advice on this forum. Most people here are extreme pro lifers that question the motives of any woman with ambitions beyond being a baby machine. I don't usually post here so I can be honest - your boyfriend sounds like a waster. The fact that he left his last girlfriend after she had a baby and refuses to see his kid suggests that he isn't too keen on the responsibility of children. A baby sounds like a wonderful idea but in reality they take up all your time and energy; they are draining.
He doesn't work and you'll end up kissing goodbye to your job and independance and hello to welfare if you get left as a single Mum. But I think you already know this from the tone of your question. Short answer - you're too young, your boyfriend is irresponsible and if I were you I'd get an abortion. But it's not for people on the internet to tell you how to live your life, make the choice that YOU think is right.
Good luck :)Trying to get insurance for static caravan on own land?
We have bought a static caravan to site on our own land for letting, but our house insurer says it will invalidate our current home insurance. Caravan insurers won't insure unless sited on a licensed park. Business or home insurers won't insure our home with the caravan on the land...Surely, since many other homes have letting caravans, there MUST be a way to cover our home, plus liability insurance for a small letting static? Have tried phoning/internet for ages, with no luck. Can anyone help?
No, home insurance isn't designed for caravan parks or multi-unit dwellings, it's just not.
Incidentally, have you checked with your local council on the legality of the plan? Many areas will not allow that sort of thing.Help, 6 weeks pregnant..Dilemmma?
Hi i am 19 years old and i am engaged to my fiance who is 24 years old. We have been together for over a year and a half now and we get on very well, we rarely argue and both enjoy doing everything together.
On Monday i found out i was pregnant and told him, he was over the moon, but i expected that because it was what he has wanted for a while now. I went to the doctors Tuesday on my own to confirm as i told him i needed time to think, when i came out and the doctor confirmed i as very excited and couldn't wait to hold my baby.
Me and my bf are currently living in a mobile home on his fathers land, however we do have our own section that is sectioned off and fenced off, we also have our own driveway. I work as an accountant and have worked for my firm for over two years, i am currently studying the AAT course which i have to go to college for one day a week. This finishes next june, and i will then be qualified fully. I will then get a dramatic increase in pay.My baby is due next july.just after i qualify.
Throughout the day when i am at work i am all excited and cannot wait, but when i get a good thought a bad one comes along and i want to take the abortion pill. Does this mean i dont want it, or is it just nerves?
I have already saved £4000 in an ISA and if i kept the baby, i would want to bring it up in a proper home, i will get a loan and pay for a park home over 5 years, which would work out £300 per month, i know i could afford this as i was paying £400 a month into an ISA. Also we would sell our mobile home and make £3500 of it, i would stick this with the other £4000 and let the loan be paid out of that.
The thing that worries me is i definatley want to go back to work after 52 weeks maternity leave but what if they dont want me back, i would need to go back to pay the loan off. and i would need to pay for nursery fees as we would both be at work.
Another thing is that everyone speaks very highly of me, saying that i have done very well for myself and will go far in life, and now i am 6 weeks pregnant. At 19!! I wanted to do other things before settling down as a family, like move to USA and go into modelling etc, but would these things actually happen neway? This is what makes me think also about the abortion pill!
I feel i will make a wonderful mum as i had to rise my younger brother from birth til he was 3 as my mother had post natal depression.But is this enough?
I dont know what to do, i feel 50/50, but when i think about keeping the baby, i think about what could go wrong as i always wanted to stay with the father of my children, we were planning on getting married next year, but if we keep the baby, that will of course be delayed. But then when i think about the abortion pill i think, when would i next have a baby, do i really not want it!!
Please help me as my head is all over. Any advice and answers grateful.
Thanks
Also i would just like to add my bf already has a 3 year old daughter that he rarely sees through...I'd say it's just your hormones :) every woman feels like that at least once, even if the baby is really wanted. It's totally normal to panic about the thought of becoming a mother.
If you had an abortion, you would regret it always. Obviously it's up to you at the end of the day, but you sound to be in a good situation financially and relationship wise - so i'd say it's just hormones making you think that way. Good luck hun x
PS. I am 19 and currently 28+5 weeks pregnant, so I know where you're coming from.Does anyone know of a nice mobile home park or site for a log cabin in Alicante or nearby?
My boyfriends parents are in a right mess, the long and short of it is... they sold their bungalow, moved to spain to their log cabin, the company building left it half built and ran off half way through, leaving them and the other people on the site in dire straits, they had to pay above odds to complete the house and now they've been told the land does not belong to them and they need to be off soon. Its going to cost a fortune to move the house and erect it somewhere else, money they don't have now, they are living on soup and losing so much weight, it's horrible to see it really is. They can't afford to come back and they can't afford to stay. I thought maybe they could sell the house at a slight loss, then buy a cheaper mobile home on a nice site in Spain and have some money left over to live on. Does anyone know of some nice sites near Alicante, or of a site where they can rent a cheap plot to put their cabin on? I would really appreciate any help you can give.
there is one in albir just up the road from altea, a few miles from benidorm. dont know the name but the road its in is carre eurim.Advise on Mobile home Law?
I own a mobile home, had three extensions on unit (didnt get permission to have them) i want to sell unit so was told to remove extensions, which i have done. I then have a decking area, which half of this is an open cat veranda encloesed with trelish. I have been told to remove this and a large shed on my boundry and unless i remove all of this they will take me to court, which now they have. I have not had permission for anything that has been put up, but someone else on the park where i live has sold their mobile home WITH a large closed in veranda decking area, i have talked with the new owners today who confirmed that nothing was ever said to them about the law of the park that no structure must be put up unless you have planning permission, the new owner of the unit where this patio decking is, said there was no paperwork shown to him regarding this law. Can someone advise me please, i know i am in the wrong from the start having extensions etc up, but why is the park saying i have to remove everything before i can sell, where they have allowed a selling of another park home with the same as i have and nothing has been said. I do know that the park owners are trying to get me off here, because they want my land, i approached them last year to see what they would give me and it was a rubbish offer, and i said no, but since then they have been at me all the time to remove everything on the ground. I pay ground rent each month and the unit is mine. Please can someone advise me please, i am living on my own with my children and have no one to advise me. do you think they are doing wrong against me, what should be for one, should be for another also. Please Please help me
just tell them your a gypsy and you will be ale to do what you like
I also saw that article as well about Park Homes. That is good that the government is going to step in and say what there rights will be etc.
I guess this is a tricky one if you own the home and someone else owns the land. No wonder people are a little confused as to who dose what, when and where.
So for once the government is doing something usefull.
Jamie
I guess the land owner has to keep the place right to some basic level but if he charges so much year for the park home to be there then he or she will be making a mint.
At the end of the day they should make it clear what you have to abide to and what they have to do.
Since the government is putting it's 10 pence worth in and all will know what where they stand and may even find they are better off.
Not knowing a great deal about the Park Homes set up and how you go about buying one etc but from what I had read just out of general interest it sounds like they will get a better deal.
I guess they are those parks that are better than others. I guess it may depend on the land owner or how much they know and have they researched enough information they need to know or may be no one has informed them and they may think they are doing right.
That I think it is a bit of a grey area but at the end of the day it sounds like it can only improve.
so good luck to them all.
Marcus