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Sale of Park Homes

Proceeding contribution from Peter Aldous (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 30 October 2014. It occurred during Backbench debate on Sale of Park Homes.

I certainly take that on board.

The Mobile Homes Act was the biggest shake-up in the park homes sector for 30 years, and it will take a few years to settle down and be implemented fully, properly and effectively. The feedback I have received is that the legislation is providing local authorities with the means of working with park home owners to bring rogue site owners to account, ensure that parks are properly managed and run, and ultimately to drive those bad apples out of the sector.

There remains much work to be done to make the new sale process work better. On good, well-run sites, in the past home owners have relied on responsible site owners—the good apples—to do much of the work for them when it came to selling their homes. Now that site owners have been removed from the sale process there is a vacuum to fill, and I am afraid that the legal, conveyancing and estate agency professions are not coming forward quickly enough to fill that void. That problem needs to be addressed now.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
587 c485 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Legislation
Mobile Homes Act 2013
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