Mobile Homes Act 1983 - pitch fee uprating: consultation analysis

4) Consultation Responses

The consultation received 171 valid responses. 13 of these were paper responses that were scanned and uploaded to Citizen Space to allow them to be analysed alongside online responses. Not all of the paper responses included a respondent information form. In such cases, responses were included but not published. Where the information in the response allowed them to be identified as individual residents they were coded as such. A breakdown between organisational and individual responses is given in Table 1 below:

The largest number of responses came from self-identified individuals. Almost all individuals who responded were residents of a mobile home site. There were 12 responses declared to be on behalf of organisations, most of which did not want their names to be published. Among the organisations that responded which were willing to be identified were the British Holiday and Home Parks Association and the Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers.

A breakdown of responses by respondent type is given below:

• 159 self-identified individuals. 147 of these answered yes to being a resident of a mobile home site. A further 8 individuals didn’t respond to the question about whether or not they were a resident but their responses to other questions indicate that they are residents or prospective residents. Four individuals didn’t respond to the question and there was nothing in their response to indicate whether they were residents;
• four individual residents associations or an organisation representing the interests of residents associations;
• six residential mobile home site operators or an organisation representing the interests of mobile home site operators. One respondent listed themselves as an individual but identified themselves as a site operator in their response text. In this case, we categorised them as a site operator during data cleaning; and
• two of which were from a local authority or an organisation representing the interests of local authorities.

There was substantial consensus between the responses from self-identified individuals (who were almost all residents), organisations who represent the interests of residents and local authorities. The views of the small number of site operators and organisations which represent site operators were divided.