In the coming weeks, as the season opens with the Park Holidays UK caravan site, Bay Life is to begin a detailed look at the affairs of the company.—Bay Life, 25 February 2018
Complaints by residents in August 2017 lead to investigation of the affairs of the company in Pevensey Bay
With a number of complaints last year about vans that were parked in the roads around the site, residents claimed that the company was flouting the rules with regard to their ownership of the site.
With a number of other key questions about the owners of the site and their role here in Pevensey Bay, Bay Life is to ask owners a number of questions, with a view to challenging their stance and role in Pevensey Bay.
In August 2017 Park Holidays UK, when contacted about a particular incident in a road alongside the site offered this response.
PARK HOLIDAYS UK—STATEMENT TO BAY LIFE
“As the new owners of the park, we are keen to be good neighbours, and to ensure that our guests continue to make a substantial contribution to the regional economy through their spending in local businesses. Although parking policies on the holiday park are unlikely to change for the foreseeable future, it’s important for anyone leaving their vehicle on public roads or public land to ensure that they are complying with any parking restrictions in force.
—Park Holidays UK, 14 August 2017
We want to test whether the company should be challenged here over their role and make a more active contribution to the community.
Of course we welcome their business. The makeup of holiday home owners and the mix with people that live here really works. The caravan site has been open since 1948 and is very much a part of the spirit and essence of Pevensey Bay.
Of course we love the Martello Beach caravan site and many of us began our lives in Pevensey Bay on the site (including the editor of Bay Life nearly twenty years ago).
Many people have migrated from the site to own homes in the Bay, over the generations.
The question now though is, is the site too big? Are the rules for caravan sites of this size being flouted?
We are already investigating a number of ways in which we believe the company is flouting the rules, based on approaches made to us by residents.
As local roads prepare to become parking space for vans that should be given the opportunity to have a space made for them on the site, we will be asking the company a key question.
“Since you are making so much money by being here, do you think it is time that you took the concerns of residents more seriously and actively looked at ways that you could contribute more to the local community?
Bay Life believes that it is time that the company took this community seriously with regard to their concerns.
If as a resident, you have been affected by Park Holidays UK here in some way, you can contact us here.
