PARK RULES FOR HANDLEY PARK

Preface

In these rules:

• "occupier" means anyone who occupies park home, whether under an Agreement to which the Mobile Homes Act 1983 applies or under a tenancy or any other agreement.
• "you" and "your" refers to the homeowner or other occupier of park home
• "we" and "our" refers to the park owner.

These rules are in palace to ensure acceptable standards are maintained on the park, which will be a general benefit to occupiers, and to promote and maintain community cohesion. They form part of the Agreement by which homeowners occupy the pitch in accordance with the Mobile Homes Act 1983, as amended.

With one exception the rules also apply to any occupiers of park homes who rent their home.

The only rule which does not apply to occupiers who rent their home is rule 2 about the colour of the exterior of the home, as someone renting their home would not be responsible for exterior maintenance.

None of these rules is to have retrospective effect. Accordingly:

• They are to apply only from the date on which they take effect, which is 5th November 2014; and
• No occupier who is in occupation on that date will be treated as being in breach due to circumstances which ere in existence on that date and which would not have been a breach of the rules in existence before that date.

Conditions of pitch

1. For reasons of ventilation and safety you must keep the underneath of your home clear and not use it as storage space.

2. Homeowners must maintain the outside of their park home in a clean and tidy condition. Where the exterior is repainted or recovered homeowners must use colour appropriate to blend in with the surrounding countryside, in accordance with our site licence. This is an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).

3. No external alterations or additions, to the park home or pitch are permitted which do not comply with the park's site licence conditions and fire safety requirements.

5. You must not have external fires, including incinerators. This also applies to BBQs unless gas powered.

6. You must not keep inflammable substances on the park except in quantities reasonable for domestic use.

7. You must not keep explosive substances on the park.

Occupation

8. Everyone using the park is required to comply with the regulations of the site licence, the water authority or any other statutory authority.

Garden

9. Gardens must be kept neat and tidy. All trees and shrub must be kept to a suitable size, any trees must not exceed the height of the park home and bushes/shrubs are not to exceed the height of the fence (6ft/1.83m). Gardens must be left intact when the pitch is vacated. No new trees are to be planted without prior written permission from the park owner, (which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

10. Washing is to be reasonably screened from public view, clothes posts will not be permitted - rotary lines only are to be used.

Storage

11. You must not have more than one storage shed or garage on the pitch. Where you source the shed yourself the design, standard and size of the shed must be approved by the site owner in writing (which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). You must position the shed/garage so as to comply with the park's site licence and fire safety requirements. The footprint of the shed shall not exceed 6ft x 4ft (1.83m x 1.22m). A small greenhouse, maximum 6ft x 4ft (1.83m x 1.22m), is also permitted.

12. You must not have any storage receptacle on the pitch other than the shed/garage mentioned in rule 11 and any receptacle for the storage of domestic waste pending collection by the local authority.

Refuse

14. You are responsible for the disposal of all household, recyclable and garden waste in approved containers through the local authority service. You must not overfill containers and must place them in the approved position for the local authority collection.

15. You must not deposit any waste or rubbish other than in local authority approved containers on any part of the park (including any individual pitch). No ashes are to be deposited onto the ground.

Business Activities

16. You must not use the park home, the pitch or the park (or any part of the park) for any business purpose, and you must not use the park home or the pitch for the storage of stock, plant, machinery or equipment used or last used for any business purpose. However you are at liberty to work individually from home by carrying out any office work of a type which does not create a nuisance to other occupiers and does not involve other staff, other workers, customers or members of the public calling at the park home or the park.

Age of Occupants

17. No person under the age of 55 years may reside in a park home.

Noise Nuisance

18. You must not use musical instruments, all forms of recorded music players, radios and other similar appliances and motor vehicles so as to cause a nuisance to other occupiers, especially between the hours of 10.30pm and 8.00am.

Pets

19. You are not permitted to keep any more than 2 pets at the park home or on the pitch.

NOTE   The express terms of a homeowner's agreement contain an undertaking on the part of the homeowner not to allow anything which is or becomes a nuisance inconvenience or disturbance to other occupiers at the park and this undertaking extends to the behaviour of pets and animals. A similar requirement not to cause a nuisance applies to tenant and again this includes the behaviour of pets and animals.

21. Nothing in rule 19 of these Park Rules prevents you from keeping an assistance dog if this is required to support your disability and Assistance Dogs UK or any successor body has issued you with an Identification Book or other appropriate evidence.

Water

22. You must only use fire point hoses in case of fire.

23. You must protect all external water pipes from potential frost damage.

Vehicles and parking

24. You must drive all vehicles on the park carefully and within the displayed speed limit of 8 mph.

25. You must not park on the roads or grass verges.

26. You must not park anywhere except in the parking space(s) allocated to your home. No vehicles must be parked in such a way as to constitute a breach of current fire regulations.

27. Other than for delivering goods and services, you must not park or allow parking of commercial vehicles of any sort on the park, including light commercial or light goods vehicles as described in the vehicle taxation legislation. This also applies to all campervans, motorhomes or caravans of any description.

28. You must hold a current driving licence and be insured to drive any vehicle on the park. You must also ensure that any vehicle you drive on the park is taxed in accordance with the requirements of law and is in a roadworthy condition.

29. Disused or un-roadworthy vehicles must not be kept anywhere on the park. We reserve the right to remove any vehicle which is apparently abandoned.