Wyldecrest Parks
| Company type | Private |
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| Headquarters | West Thurrock, Grays, UK |
Area served | UK including England, Wales & Scotland |
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| Website | www |
Wyldecrest Parks [1] is a mobile home park company in the United Kingdom, operating about 101 parks including 10 holiday parks.[2][failed verification][3][4][5][6]
History[edit]
The company was founded in 1991 with the purchase of Lakeview Park in Romford, Essex by its present chairman Alfie Best.[citation needed] It was originally based in Rainham, Essex but later moved its headquarters to West Thurrock, Essex. Wyldecrest Park is a residential mobile home park brand,[7][8] and Wyldecrest Holiday Park is a sub- brand which focuses on the holiday parks including a golf course.[9]
The company operates a charity called the Wyldecrest Charitable Trust.[10]
In March 2019, Wyldecrest Parks was shortlisted as a finalist for the RESI 2019 awards, in the category of "Retirement Living Operator of the Year".[11]
Controversies[edit]
In October 2011, Wyldecrest Parks owner Alfie Best, voluntarily accepted a police caution for an alleged physical assault on one of his residents at Scatterdells Park, Bovingdon.[12] The resident was protesting alterations to the park. She later pressed charges, with police offering Best either a caution or go to court.[13]
In December 2018, Wyldecrest Parks was ordered by Havering Council to demolish dwellings which they had built at the Lakeview Park property near Romford after it was revealed that the development was on greenbelt land and lacked planning permission as it was outside of the park's licensed area. Some residents had paid up to £280,000.[14][15]
In February 2021, Private Eye reported that Wyldecrest Parks had lost a third appeal in a legal battle with a 77 year old resident over inflated site charges for electricity where it was claimed that the company was charging over three times the average daily domestic tariff.[16][17]
In June 2021, Wyldecrest was fined £100,000 and ordered to pay a further £11,000 in legal fees after it was found by Oxford Magistrates Court to have breached two planning enforcement notices. The company had previously been ordered to remove improvements to a green belt site at Bayworth Mobile Home Park, near Abingdon-on-Thames, which only had permission to be used as a car park.[18][19]
In February 2023, Wyldecrest Parks were fined £8,000 plus £25,000 in costs after being found guilty in Bristol Magistrates Court of operating a site without a proper licence.[20]
In April 2023, Cornwall Council rejected two applications to transfer site licences to Wyldecrest Parks, on the basis that Wyldecrest Parks had an insufficient interest in the land, that the company could not by itself finance the site and that there was no adequate management structure in place. [21]
References[edit]
- ^ "Penwortham retirement park under new ownership". Blog Preston. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Park homes". GOV.UK. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ Jolley, Ben. "Wyldecrest Parks opens new site, Bush Pastures Park, in Fordham, Cambridgeshire". Ely Standard.
- ^ "Our Residential Parks - Wyldecrest". Wyldecrest Residential Parks. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "About Us - Wyldecrest". Wyldecrest Residential Parks. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ Ford, Coreena (2022-04-14). "Northumberland holiday park snapped up by growing Essex group Wyldecrest". Business Live. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- ^ "Award success for Wyldecrest Parks". Thurrock Gazette. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ Duggan, Joe (2015-10-19). "Wyldecrest Parks bags prestigious London business award". Olive Press News Spain. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Delight as golf club saved from closure". Worcester News. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Park and holiday home operator launches its own charity". Horncastle News. 15 July 2018.
- ^ Devaney, Katie. "RESI Awards 2019". resiawards.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "House of Commons - Communities and Local Government Committee: Written submission from the Wyldecrest Parks Residents Association Alliance". publications.parliament.uk.
- ^ House of Commons, Communities and Local Government Committee (20 Jun 2012). "Monday, 19 March 2012". Park Homes: First report of session 2012-13. Vol. 2. Westminster: Stationery Office. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9780215045607. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ Penman, Andrew (13 December 2018). "Families face homeless as 'gipsy king' development had no planning permission". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ Coleman, Liam (13 December 2018). "Romford residents who paid more than £200,000 for their mobile homes demand money back after they were built illegally". Romford Recorder. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Park home Victories". Private Eye. No. #1539. London: Pressdram Ltd. 4 February 2021. p. 40.
- ^ HM Courts & Tribunals Service (22 February 2021). First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) - CHI/00HE/PHC/2019/0013 & CHI/00HE/PHI/2019/0200 (PDF) (Report). Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ Krasteva, Gergana (8 June 2021). "Company fined £100K for illegal built on Green Belt". Oxford Mail. Osney Mead, Oxford: Newsquest. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ "Latest News - Company given substantial fine for unlawful mobile home". Vale of White Horse District Council. Wantage. 12 May 2021. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ Waterworth, Tanya (8 February 2023). "Bristol caravan park owners fined thousands for not having licence". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
- ^ "Cornwall Council - Application for consent to transfer the site licence in respect of a relevant protected site known as Tamar Park, Gunnislake, Cornwall". democracy.cornwall.gov.uk. 28 April 2023.