Closed petition Prevent costs of the Park owner Fitness criteria being passed on to residents

Closed on 18 March 2021

To investigate whether prevention can be undertaken other than by primary legislation or by advice to Local Authorities that they absorb the costs.

Dated July 2020, The MHCLG published it summary of consultations and the governments`s response. Primary legislation does not include a power to prevent site owners from passing on annual or application fees to park home residents via the pitch fee. These costs should be borne by the industry or by central government, where its predecessors failed to to ensure that rogue and criminal park owners were not afforded licenses and therefore facilitated their expansion. Collaterally, the planned change in England from the use of PRI to CPI will likely cancel the benefit of that intended shift