Park Rules for Mowbreck Park

Preface

In these rules:

• ‘occupier’ means anyone who occupies a 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 a park home
• ‘we’ and ‘our’ refers to the park owner

These rules are in place to ensure acceptable standards are maintained on the park, which will be of 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.

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

• They are to apply only from the date on which they take effect, which is --- ; and

• No occupier who is in occupation on that date will be treated as being in breach due to circumstances which were in existence on that date and which would not have been a breach of the rules in existence before that date.

Condition of the Pitch

1. For reasons of ventilation and safety you must keep the underneath of your home clear and not use it as a storage space.
2. Any shrubs alongside the road must not be more than 3ft tall to allow good visibility and keep the open aspect of the park.
3. Any fencing or other means of enclosure is only permitted in accordance with rules 4 – 6 below and you must obtain our approval in writing (which will not be Unreasonably withheld or delayed).
4. Fencing may only be erected on the boundary of your pitch and the wood if your home is next to the wood. Any fencing must not exceed 6ft in height. You must not cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy any trees or shrubs in the wood or encroach into the woodland area.
5. Uninterrupted hedging may only be used between your property and your neighbours to form the boundary. Any hedging must not exceed 6ft in height and there must be a gap between the road and the start of the hedge of at least 6ft.
6. You must position any fence or hedge so as to comply with the park’s site licence conditions and fire safety requirements.
7. You must not have external fires, including incinerators.
8. You must not keep inflammable substances on the park except in quantities reasonable for domestic use.

10. You must obtain our written permission before any trees are cut down, lopped, topped, uprooted or felled, permission not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

Storage

11. You must not have more than:

1. one shed and one greenhouse; or
2. two greenhouses; or
3. two sheds on the pitch.

Where you have sourced the shed or greenhouse yourself the design, standard and size of the must be approved by us in writing (approval will not be withheld or delayed unreasonably). You must position any shed or greenhouse so as to comply with the park’s site licence and fire safety requirements. The footprint of any shed or greenhouse shall not exceed 1.8mx1.8m ( 6ft x 6ft).

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

13. You must ensure that any shed or other structure erected in the separation space between park homes and holiday homes is of non-combustible construction and positioned so as to comply with the park’s site licence conditions and fire safety requirements. The separation space is the space between your park home and any neighbouring home.

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 collections.

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).

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 staff, other workers, customers or members of the public, physically calling at the park home or the park.

Age of Occupants

17. No person under the age of 50 years may reside in a park home on a permanent basis.

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 must not keep any pets or animals except the following:

(a) Not more than 2 dogs (other than any of the breeds subject to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 which are not permitted at all). You must keep any dog under proper control and you must not permit it to frighten other users of the park. You must keep any dog on a leash not exceeding 1m in length and not allow it to despoil the park.

1. Not more than 2 domestic cats. You must keep any cat under proper control and must not permit it to frighten other users of the park, or to despoil the park.
2. Not more than 2 caged birds in 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 tenants and again this includes the behaviour of pets and animals.

Note

These rules do not have retrospective effect. If the keeping of the pet complied with the previous rules, an occupier will not be treated as being in breach when these rules take effect. However, when the pet dies or leaves it can only be replaced if this would comply with these rules.

20. Nothing in rule 21 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

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

Vehicles and Parking

22. You must drive all vehicles on the park carefully and within the displayed speed limit.

23. There is only one permitted parking space per home on the park. If there is room to park a second vehicle on the park, you may park a second vehicle in any of the visitors spaces.

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

25. You must not park anywhere except in the permitted parking spaces.

26. Other than for delivering goods and services, you must not park or allow parking of commercial or light goods vehicles as described in the vehicle taxation legislation

Vehicles intended for domestic use but derived from or adapted from such a commercial vehicle, with the exception of taxis.

27. You must not park motor homes, trailers or tourers anywhere on the park unless you have paid for storage in the overspill car park.