Site Licensing and Consumer Protection

Park regulation, occupancy rules and buyer protections

Holiday parks and park homes sit on the most distinctive body of law in this library: planning, site licensing, and either holiday contract law or the protective regime for residential park homes, with consumer protection running through them all. This book explains how those layers fit. It covers planning permission and occupancy conditions, the site licence and model standards, and the fit and proper person requirement. The contracts chapter explains the sharp difference between holiday pitch licences and residential park homes under the Mobile Homes Act, and why using the wrong agreement is so consequential. You will see why safety duties on a park, from gas and electrics to licence conditions, are heavier than an ordinary landlord's, and why park tax is intricate when land, trading income and unit sales mix. It is clear that letting someone believe a holiday pitch is a home is the most expensive misunderstanding in the field. A compliance checklist and the costs of getting it wrong close the book. Next in this series: “Operating a Park”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong: what it actually costs

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