Monday: Park home activists outside Number 10 with Sir Peter Bottomley (left), Sonia McColl OBE, Tony Turner, Paul Baker and David Iles. Later 80 park home residents attended a meeting in the Palace of Westminster attended by around a dozen MPs. Tuesday: Tony Turner’s efforts to get Wyldecrest, the biggest park site operator, to issue a statement of his accounts failed in the upper property tribunal
The day after the park home owners demonstration at Westminster, they were defeated in the upper property tribunal as site owner Wyldecrest overturned a decision that it had to provide activist Tony Turner with a statement of account.
Around 80 park home owners converged on 10 Downing Street yesterday to deliver a blunt message demanding reform of their scandal-hit corner of the retirement housing market. The residents, mainly in their 70s, are furious at the skulduggerous behaviour of certain park home owners – and, truth be told, have little good to say about any of them.
The chief source of grievance is the 10% exit fee on sale taken by the site owners which residents claim is for no very precisely defined service whatsoever.
