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Welcome
There’s a lot to look forward to in this month’s bumper PH&HC issue, introduced by editor Alex Melvin
Buying a park home
Everything you need to know about the buying process
Andrew’s anecdotes
Ahead of our Winter Directory 2016/17, Andrew Jenkinson looks back on insulation levels in caravans in days gone by
Parks
Star quality parks
Alex Melvin finds out more about some exciting developments at Starglade Parks Ltd, including the purchase of seven new sites
Primrose Hill Park, Somerset
Philip Pond meets the park home dwellers at a picturesque site in a sleepy Somerset village
Broadwell Woods, Warwickshire…..
Bella Brodie finds out more about a Warwickshire wonder where the burgeoning community spirit is just as good as the location
Great gardens galore!…..
Alex Melvin finds out more about a Shropshire park where a recent gardening competition helped raise hundreds of pounds for charity
Park people: Lumby Park, Hants
Joiner, John Chalk, bought his first park home just six months ago, aged 77. We meet one of Lumby Park in Ringwood’s most interesting characters
Park of the year 2017
Enter our new search to find the UK’s premier park site
Homes
The Prestige LookOut
Bella Brodie goes on a room-by-room tour of the latest new launch from Prestige Park and Leisure Homes
The Oakgrove Clarendon
Bella Brodie takes us on a whistlestop tour of one of Oakgrove’s key residential models
In a nutshell: The Hayden Classic
We find out more about Tingdene Homes’s lovely new incarnation of this popular model
‘We love our new Tingdene home!’
We talk to Julie Ling, who recently moved into a Tingdene Kensington at Hoo Marina, in Kent. PH&HC has followed the progress from factory to siting and beyond
Winter Directory 2016/2017
Winter warmer
How you can ensure you look after yourself, and your home, during the colder months
Your A to Z of energy savings
Steve Rowe brings together our annual compendium of companies there to help you and your park home this winter
Absolutely fabulous at insulation
One of our industry’s best-known specialist insulation companies was a multiple award winner in a nationwide energy-efficiency competition last month
Fitting sheds of grey!
Do you live in an old park home that could do with some improvements to help with the pending winter days? We take a look at an older park home that has recently had its exterior totally renovated by specialists NuVex, with a grey-themed colour scheme
Offers and products
100 FREE narcissus
Get your superb narcissus collection, worth £28, couresty of PH&HC!
Your home essentials
A range of top products to peruse for your park home, garage or garden
News, letters and legal help
News
Three pages of park home news from around the UK community
Letters
Forthright vews and testimonials from readers
Money matters
Steve Rowe brings you more excellent cash saving tips
LEASE: model standards
What are model standards for park home sites? We asked The Leasehold Advisory Service’s Manjit Rai to explain more about them
Holiday
Buying a holiday home
Everything you need to know
Holiday news
Three pages of news from around the UK
In a nutshell: Willerby’s Reef
Bella Brodie reviews an upmarket glamping pod from Willerby
Show reviews
2016’s Caravan Extravaganza
We review the lodges and caravans from the hottest show to hit Hull this year!
Beaulieu revisited
Alex Melvin takes you through the highlights of this season’s Beaulieu show
Go West!
Exeter’s Westpoint event goes under the microscope