Park Homes: Fees and Charges
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to prevent park homes owners from being charged higher pitch fees than other park home owners on the same site.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
When a site owner sells a park home and enters into a new pitch agreement with a purchaser, they may set the pitch fee at a higher level than the pitch fee paid by existing residents.
When an existing resident sells a park home, the purchaser will pay the same amount of pitch fee paid by the seller. The amount will be stated in the ‘Buyer’s Information’ Form provided by the seller. A site owner cannot demand a higher pitch fee from the purchaser during or after the sale.
Site owners can review pitch fees annually and increase it by no more than the rate of inflation in most cases. Site owners cannot use the pitch fee review process to increase the initial pitch fee agreed with a purchaser.
If a resident is asked to pay a higher pitch fee than they initially agreed or they do not agree with a proposed increase during a pitch fee review, they do not have to pay it. They must continue to pay the existing pitch fee until the matter is determined by the First Tier Tribunal.
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