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OCTOBER 2024 PARK HOME AND HOLIDAY LIVING
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Welcome
Editor Alex Melvin explains what’s inside your jam-packed October 2024 issue
Buying a park home
Essential buying advice, legal help, plus specialist industry names to contact
Talking points
Andrew Jenkinson remembers Ascot – a holiday home manufacturer that burned brightly for a short time in the 1970s
Parks
Residents with real park pride
Some of the nicest gardens you’ll see are found on the UK’s best parks – where you’ll also find some of the nicest people! If your park is full of both, PH&HL editor Alex Melvin explains why you should enter it into our Residential Park of the Year competition…
Let’s move to West Yorkshire
We explore the residential park home options out there for prospective buyers in one of the most underrated portions of ‘God’s Own Country’ – West Yorkshire
Best of town and country
Sue Hollingshead explores Bedfordshire, where Pine View Park now has three additional plots available
A real Wiltshire wonder!
Sue Hollingshead finds out more about the new development phase on Trowbridge Park, in Wiltshire
Retirement living at its finest
We profile an exclusive residential park home community for the over-50s in the county of North Yorkshire
‘It’s the best thing we’ve done’
Find out why others chose to change their lives and made their dream retirement move to a park home
Changing seasons
Park home resident Peter Jones cogitates on autumn and how life changes on his pretty Warwickshire site during this season
Homes
New models for all budgets
Bella Brodie examines the new model homes that Pemberton will be taking to the upcoming Harrogate Show
Plenty of choice
There will be a dazzling array of different Omar Group homes for visitors to this autumn’s Harrogate Show to check out.
We learn more…
The Tempest returns
One of four awe-inspiring lodges Prestige will showcase at Harrogate, The Tempest is sure to turn heads. Bella Brodie explores this model and the three others from Prestige
New designs set to wow at Harrogate
We get the lowdown on a fantastic new range of models from Victory Leisure Homes that are set to make a splash at Harrogate
Stunning homes from Pathfinder
We find out more about some stunning new models from Pathfinder
The palatial Palazzo 52
Kingston demonstrates its bespoke capability with the stunning Palazzo
Dynamic designs and true quality
Bella Brodie finds out what sets Retreat Homes & Lodges apart from the crowd
New kids on the block 56
Bentley Rowe Modular steps into the industry, offering homes with flair and innovative design. We learn more…
Services
The perfect app for your park home move
Park home specialist Quickmove Properties has developed a state-of-the-art app…
Legal: pitch fees
Barrister Ibraheem Dulmeer addresses the most frequently asked questions he encounters around pitch fees
Call in the professionals
We profile industry leading park home renovation and refurbishment company, Prestige Developments
Revolutionising holiday park home siting
Find out how a system tailored specifically for the holiday and leisure park industry can offer a multitude of benefits for park developments
Insure your happy place!
Compass’s top 10 tips when it comes to protecting your property…
Two new products
Dekboard expands its decking range with two new innovative products. We learn more…
A special anniversary
DF Capital’s Ian Martin celebrates 30 years in the leisure industry this year…
Solid support and solutions aplenty
Bella Brodie finds out more about Gateway Chassis Solutions – a market leading chassis specialist
Five key safety questions
We ask the National Caravan Council to tackle five safety questions all buyers should consider
Holiday
Buying a holiday home
All you need to know about the buying process, plus useful contacts
Holiday news
Updates from around the industry on holiday parks, homes and more!
Harrogate Show preview
We get the lowdown on the hotly anticipated Harrogate Show…
Celebrating 80 years of Hoseasons
As Hoseasons marks its 80th anniversary, we find out why experience is everything when it comes to helping holiday park owners
Yorkshire’s beating heart
Looking for a lodge in the heart of Yorkshire countryside? Thornton Lodge Country Retreats is brilliantly located…
Insurance FAQs
We speak to NACO, one of the UK’s leading insurers, to run through a few basics of holiday home insurance
Make the most of what’s under your nose!
Throughout 2024 we’re getting behind the Great British Holiday…
Lifestyle
Coffee Time
Cookery
Products
Nature
Home help
News, views and advice
News
Puzzles
Personal finance
Your shout
Life begins at 50
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THE BUYER’S GUIDE 2024
Our 2024 Buyer’s Guide kickstarts the holiday season with insights from industry experts explaining why holiday park accommodation is better than ever this year, with a look behind the keyhole of several of the newest models holiday makers might expect to find at their target destination. For those thinking of buying a holiday home or lodge it has more advice and features on that very topic than ANY other previous issue, looking at what you can and cannot do in a holiday home, the difference between buying for residential or leisure use, and where to find expert advice if you need it.
Holiday Living’s Buyer’s Guide is FREE to read here!