The dream of a mobile home park turns into ‘nightmare’
BBCIn a mobile home park owned by a reality television billionaire, the residents transferred to “The Dream Live”.
Instead, some are now “living a nightmare” because they fight on issues with pits, light and water leaks.
In Willow Park, Mankot, Flintshire, Alyfi Best’s company is owned by WylDecrest Parks, the TV documentary was the subject of the Gypsy billionaire.
However, when it ended in July 2023, its license for the site was not renewed, and a new license was also denied on the appeal last year.
While WYLDECREST said it is “still committed” to do the work, residents in 159 houses say that the firm is not maintained despite paying a quarterly maintenance fee.
Those who live there want someone to take responsibility.
Long-time resident Julie Davis said, “They (residents) are fed up to fight for basic needs when they want to have a trouble-free life in his later years,” said Julie Davis, a long-term resident.
“We are left out … Wyldecrest doesn’t want to know, council, Sendd does not want to know.
“We are left in Limbo.”
She said that the site was “cute” when she arrived 17 years ago to take care of her elderly parents, but she saw “rapid decline”.
Ms. Davis said that people had gone “to live dreams”, but instead, they are living “a bad dream”.
Licenses for parks are issued by local authorities Mobile Homes Act (Wales) 2013,
But the sites must be placed on a certain standard to keep them, as well as to meet other criteria.
The Flintshire Council said it refused a residential mobile homes license at WylDecrest Parks in October 2024 following complaints from residents about the conditions on the site in October 2024.
Now it was waiting for a date for the appeal of the Wyldecrest of that decision.
“The council continues to follow the directions in relation to the appeal and is working with a legal team to ensure that legal compliance has been obtained on the site,” said a spokesman.
“The council is not in a position to complete the appeal process and take legal action and is unable to make further comments while the legal process continues.”
“We are in a man’s land,” 68 -year -old Jackie Morgan described it.
“WYLDECREST perfectly ignores our arguments, and Flintshire Council says they will not come to the site to help because there is no license.”
Ms. Morgan cannot take her 94 -year -old father out of her wheelchair, for fear that it would tip on the pits.
That too has left the perimeter hedges, while the empty plots were abandoned.
According to Ken Pierce, President of the Association of the residents, the residents should pay three times for water due to leaks.
He has been on a 23 -year site, and said: “Each house is paying £ 56.14 a month for water we do not use, this site is passing through the meter, but not reaching our houses We should pay about 16 pounds.
In a statement, Welsh Water said the leakage on the site should be resolved.
It states: “We appreciate the concerns of the residents, but this is an issue between them and their landlord as the leakage is happening on the private part of the water network that does not maintain water.
“The billing agreement between the tenants and the landlord is a private matter for him.”
The manager for sites, including Willow Park, WylDecrest spokesman David Sundarland said that the company was not given any compliance notice by the Flintshire Council and denied that they were ignoring the residents.
“We communicate with all the residents,” he said, “If someone has a query, I will talk to them.”
He said that the company was already getting quotes for a new water main place and any road will be resurrected after the completion of that work.
The Welsh government said that the local authority was best kept to comment on the situation.
Other site of Wyldcrest in Flingshire, Willow Brooke Park in Sandycroft, is currently without license.
