FOI release

Residential Park Home Sites

Case reference FOI2025/00868

Received 13 October 2025

Published 3 November 2025

Request

Please provide the following information regarding the licensing of protected residential park home sites in your local authority area, and the implementation of the Fit and Proper Person (F&PP) test under the Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020.

1. Number of Licensed Sites

The total number of protected residential park home sites licensed under the Mobile Homes Act 1983 in your local authority area as of the date of this request.

PLEASE NOTE IF THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS NIL – PLEASE IGNORE QUESTIONS 2 – 10

2. Enforcement Action on Licensing Breaches

Since 1 July 2021, how many formal enforcement notices, improvement notices, or prosecution proceedings have been issued for breaches of park home site licence conditions?

3. Fit and Proper Person Applications Received

How many F&PP applications have been received since the 2020 Regulations came into force and became law in 2021?

4. Applications Granted / Refused

Of the above, how many applications have been:

  • Approved (including any with conditions)

  • Refused

5. Applications Granted with Conditions

If any F&PP applications were granted subject to conditions, please detail what conditions were imposed?

6. Monitoring and Enforcement of F&PP Conditions

What processes are in place for monitoring compliance with any conditions imposed under the F&PP regulations, and how many enforcement actions have been taken for breach of such conditions?

7. Revocations

How many F&PP approvals have been revoked or withdrawn since the regulations came into force?

8. Unlicensed or Unapproved Managers

Have you identified any Licenced sites being managed by individuals not on the F&PP register, and if so:

  • How many cases?

  • What enforcement action if any has been taken?

9. Government Guidance and Non-Statutory Recommendations

When implementing the F&PP test, does the council:

  • Follow the government’s published guidance in full?

  • Take into account any non-statutory recommendations or best practice guidance such as consultation with residents?

(Please provide details.)

10. Process for Review and Re-Application

Response

Please see attached.

Documents

This is South Derbyshire District Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.

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