Mobile home couple's warning
A RETIRED couple who misled into buying a mobile home say they hope their experience will serve as a warning to others.
Keith and Noreen Carley lost more than £50,000 when they were sold a home at Cotswold Grange Country Park, in Twyning, as a permanent retirement base.
They didn't realise it only had planning permission as a temporary home and was worth around half the £109,000 they paid for it.
Park owner Robert Bull, 37, from Thetford in Norfolk, was fined £8,000 at Gloucester Crown Court last week.
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Robert Bull trading as Cotswold Grange Country Park pleaded to two charges of engaging in an unfair commercial practice under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
Mr Bull misled consumers, who sold their homes to buy static caravans at Cotswold Grange Country Park, by failing to tell them that the static caravans only had planning permission as holiday homes and could not be lived in 12 months of the year.
Mrs Carley said: "We will learn from it. Hopefully our experience will act as a warning to others."
4 Comments
by neilmclau77
Saturday, March 16 2013, 2:07PM
“Not only has this been duplicated 4 times, with nothing new, it has also failed to mention that Mr Bull sold the park in 2010. Because of this, the new owners of the park have lost alot of business, when it has nothing to do with them. Very unfair.”
by raidermanuk
Thursday, January 24 2013, 5:50PM
“This story was in the Echo on Tuesday. Why the duplication when there's nothing new in todays report?”
by Walker100
Thursday, January 24 2013, 11:24AM
“Ah, Tim, you must be of an age (like me) when legal people were properly qualified and skilled at their job. Tony Blair and his associates disassembled the justice and legal profession to enable the likes of Matrix Chambers (Cherie Booth (Blair)) to makes their fortunes and the likes of the miserably knowledgeable Irving and Falconer to Lord it over us Oikes.”
by TimMessanger
Thursday, January 24 2013, 9:45AM
“Didn't the conveyancer realise there was a problem with the planning?”