Member

Some important protections for park home residents have been introduced by the earlier legislation, and those protections have parallels to the circumstances facing houseboat residents. Park home residents pay pitch fees, which are similar to mooring fees. There are legal protections from excessive increases in charges, which broadly keep rises in line with inflation, and there are controls on resales of electricity and water. The position facing mobile home owners is far from perfect—indeed, park home campaigners will tomorrow present a petition at 10 Downing Street calling for the abolition of the 10% commission that they must pay site owners when they sell their park homes—but there are lessons to be learned from the rights already afforded to park home residents. Those could be adopted to improve the position for houseboat residents.