30 percent electric increase

quacker13

I live on a mobile home park in Cheshire and the site owner sent a very short letter to all on site saying that the electric bill was going up from 14.994p to a whopping 19.68p per unit. This means my bill was £11 more expensive. This seems an awfully large increase. As regards to Mobile homes act the site owner must supply written proof of increase but he will not supply proof from British Gas. Residents don't know whether to just pay the original amount until proof is given. We have to get our electric through the site owner so residents can't switch. Any suggestions?

wavelets

quacker13 wrote: »

I live on a mobile home park in Cheshire and the site owner sent a very short letter to all on site saying that the electric bill was going up from 14.994p to a whopping 19.68p per unit. This means my bill was £11 more expensive. This seems an awfully large increase. As regards to Mobile homes act the site owner must supply written proof of increase but he will not supply proof from British Gas. Residents don't know whether to just pay the original amount until proof is given. We have to get our electric through the site owner so residents can't switch. Any suggestions?

If you are not happy, move your mobile home.
If all the residents follow suit, the site will cease to trade.

Or apply to the courts to seek enforcement of the law you refer to.

Anthorn

wavelets wrote: »

If you are not happy, move your mobile home.
If all the residents follow suit, the site will cease to trade.

Or apply to the courts to seek enforcement of the law you refer to.

Might not be as simple as "move the mobile home'. It depends on the contract. Some contracts state that the mobile home cannot be moved to a different site in which case the only way is to sell the mobile home and buy a different one somewhere else. But is selling there is the process of assigning the occupation agreement to the new owner in which the site owner is involved. That in itself might not be so simple because while to some people it's just a mobile home, to others it's a home.

quacker13

wavelets wrote: »

If you are not happy, move your mobile home.
If all the residents follow suit, the site will cease to trade.

Or apply to the courts to seek enforcement of the law you refer to.

Unfortunately moving isn't an option with 30 homes, elderly people and the fact that the homes have been lived in for more than 20 years. The site owner would be happy if we left the site anyway so he can put those bigger park homes on site so think i may go to citizens advise. Thank you for your suggestions though

quacker13

Anthorn wrote: »

Might not be as simple as "move the mobile home'. It depends on the contract. Some contracts state that the mobile home cannot be moved to a different site in which case the only way is to sell the mobile home and buy a different one somewhere else. But is selling there is the process of assigning the occupation agreement to the new owner in which the site owner is involved. That in itself might not be so simple because while to some people it's just a mobile home, to others it's a home.

Quite right. Plus the site owner is making people sell to him for very little money so we are stuck here. Most people think of all those holiday homes at the seaside but this has been our permanent home for over 20 years. Maybe the council could help perhaps afterall they supply the site owners licence