Caravan, Camping and Mobile Home Sites
Fit and Proper Person Register
About the regulations
The mobile homes (requirements for manager of site to be fit and proper person) (England) regulations 2020 prohibit the use of land as a residential mobile home site unless the local authority is satisfied that the owner or manager of the site is a fit and proper person to manage the site.
Unless the site is exempt, the site owner must:
· be a fit and proper person to lawfully operate a park home site, or
· have a fit and proper site manager in place
Site owners operating a relevant protected site must apply to us for the relevant person (themselves or their appointed manager) to be included in the local register of fit and proper persons to manage a site.
A site owner may only apply if they hold or have applied for a site licence for the site.
Exempt sites
A site is exempt if it's “a non-commercial family occupied site”. This is one that is:
· only occupied by members of the same family, and
· not being run on a commercial basis
The regulations provide further detail about this exemption.
What we will consider
To be satisfied that the relevant person is a fit and proper person to manage the site, and to add them to the register, we will consider:
· past compliance with the site licence
· the long term maintenance of the site
· whether the relevant person has sufficient level of competence to manage the site
· the management structure and funding arrangements for the site or proposed management structure and funding arrangements.
We will also consider whether the relevant person:
· has the right to work within the UK
· has committed any offence involving fraud or other dishonesty, violence, arson or drugs or listed in Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (offences attracting notification requirements)
· has contravened any provision of the law relating to housing, caravan sites, mobile homes, public health, planning or environmental health or of landlord and tenant law.