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  • Plastic Fantastic

    Plastic Fantastic

    24th August 2022

    Plastic-based decking boards have become very popular on holiday parks, with their ease or maintenance and long lifespan. There are now many different types and specialist manufacturers of sustainable uPVC decking for holiday homes – one of them, DekBoard, has…

  • Wrexham family’s park triumphs in farm design awards

    Wrexham family’s park triumphs in farm design awards

    19th August 2022

    In the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, John Brookshaw and his mother Della (centre) are congratulated at the show by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s president Harry Fetherstonhaugh and his wife Davina Family owners and team at a…

  • Harbur launches manufacturing business

    Harbur launches manufacturing business

    19th August 2022

    The industry welcomes Harbur Park and Leisure Homes to the manufacturing side of the sector. With build slots still out for a long while there is still room for new manufacturers. Harbur already has the credentials of an established design…

  • Staffordshire park sale

    Staffordshire park sale

    17th August 2022

    We find out more about Staffordshire site St Christopher’s Drive Mobile Home Park, in Tamworth, which recently came up for sale… Savills, on behalf of Flitwick Securities Limited, has been instructed to sell the long leasehold interest in St Christopher’s…

  • Eviction threat lifted at Midlands park

    Eviction threat lifted at Midlands park

    10th August 2022

    We find out more about the plight of residents at a Derbyshire park who – until recently – lived with the looming spectre that their site could be permanently closed… Residents at a Derbyshire site expressed their ‘joy and relief’…

  • Counting the pennies

    Counting the pennies

    3rd August 2022

    As well as consumers, many businesses are also feeling the effects of the current cost-of-living crisis, but there are also some sources of help and advice for businesses. As an example, one of the UK’s fastest growing holiday park operators,…

  • Victory triples production

    Victory triples production

    26th July 2022

    Luxury lodge and holiday home manufacturer Victory Leisure Homes is actively encouraging the staycation boom of the past couple of years, which has been a very busy time for the company, leading to it tripling its production of homes in…

  • Taking the proverbial

    Taking the proverbial

    19th July 2022

    Something that is increasingly being seen in hospitality businesses throughout the UK is the use of eco-friendly gents’ urinals, which don’t use water to flush them. One of the UK’s leading waterless urinal businesses, Smarti Environmental, claims that holiday parks…

  • Let’s get park home owners energy bills justice!

    Let’s get park home owners energy bills justice!

    14th July 2022

    When the Chancellor announced that all UK households would get £400 towards their energy bills this autumn to help ease the current cost of living crisis, it was not mentioned that many thousands of park home residents would miss out…