Decision details

Park Home site Licence Conditions - Proposed New Arrangements

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To agree whether charges should be made &, if so, the fees to be charged

Decision:

(1)        That, following the recent consultation with park home residents and site owners:

 

(a)        the Epping Forest District Council Policy on Fees for Licensing Residential Park Home Sites, attached at Appendix 1 of the report, be adopted from 1 April 2014; and

 

            (b)        the fees be added to the Schedule of Housing Fees and Charges and        reviewed by the Finance and Performance Management Cabinet Committee on an annual basis; and

 

(2)        That a decision on the draft conditions to be attached to site licences for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller sites, which would be the subject of a separate consultation with the owners, residents and other interested parties, be delayed pending interpretation of the implications of further guidance on recommended separation distances between park homes.

Report author: Lyndsay Swan

Publication date: 10/03/2014

Date of decision: 03/03/2014

Decided at meeting: 03/03/2014 - Cabinet

Effective from: 18/03/2014

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