Enforcing repairs

This section discusses the rights that a mobile home occupier may have in relation to repairs.

Sections 79-82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 provide that any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or be prejudicial to health constitute a statutory nuisance. This applies to caravans. Local authorities must take steps to have such a nuisance abated. At the same time, any other interested person, such as the mobile home occupier, can serve an abatement notice and raise court proceedings by way of summary application. People renting a mobile home will usually have very limited security of tenure and might therefore not wish to risk taking such action themselves.