A Buckinghamshire park site owner has been ordered to pay a resident £7,500 after a new road encroached on her pitch.
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A Buckinghamshire mobile home boss has been ordered to pay a woman £7,500 after a new road encroached on her pitch.
Park site owner Joe Burns must pay the money to Liz Phillips within 28 days, according to the ruling handed down at a First-tier Property Tribunal.

Burns is the director of Silk Mills Leisure, the owner of the Nook Park, in the village of Great Horwood.
The businessman has been upgrading facilities at the site and preparing it for new homes that will be sited there.

However, Mrs Phillips and some other residents have expressed concern with the way Burns has carried out the improvements.

After taking over Nook Park in 2021, Burns’ company removed hedges, paths and gardens from the site as he sought to expand it.

Last week, Judge Shepherd and surveyor Mary Hardman said in their tribunal decision that they had found ‘significant encroachment’ on Phillips’ pitch by the new road. They added: ‘The old roadway was a point of delineation on the plan.

‘Accordingly, the land up to the old roadway was part of the pitch. This land was removed from the pitch with the construction of the road.’

They said that they did not consider it reasonable to order Burns to remove the road or to move it as this would be ‘expensive and cause further disruption to residents’.

Instead, they have decided to award compensation to Mrs Phillips.