Mobile homes upset neighbours

A NEWHAVEN mobile home developer has been labelled the neighbour from hell by Court Farm Road residents.

Members of Court Farm Residents' Association are furious about plans to build more mobile homes at Newhaven Heights by Haulfryn Park Homes.

They say they were led to believe there would be no more than 150 mobile homes on the site and they would be placed to ensure privacy. Landscaping to create a buffer between the mobile homes and Court Farm Road residents was also promised, they claim.

Now a further 12 homes are planned on land bordering the road. Haulfryn says some of these could be moved elsewhere on the site but could give no firm details.

Chairman of the residents' association Graham Amy said: 'Thousands of tons of spoil have been built up adjacent to the bridle path to cater for the additional homes.

'Nobody is objecting to the 150 homes but the additional number so close to the existing homes is a gross un-neighbourly over development.

Action

'The council would soon take action if a member of the public put a 20ft-high bank of soil in their back garden and erected a building that overshadowed a neighbouring property, so how do mobile home developers get away with it?'

He added: 'Looking at the latest plans, the developers are turning out to be the neighbours from hell!'

Existing planning permission for the site means the developer does not have to seek permission for work within its boundary.

Alan Novis, of Court Farm Road, added: 'I was told by Haulfryn Park Homes when the development started that a bank and landscaping would separate our houses from the mobile homes. In addition, I was informed that the windows on the sides of the homes would not face our properties. Neither of these statements have been honoured.'

Residents want the plans redrawn to allow an adequate distance between the two sites.

Mr Amy said: 'A sensible outcome would be fewer homes and a buffer zone. This would be good for Court Farm Road, potential mobile home purchasers and the environment.'

Haulfryn Park Homes site manager Mike Mullin said people's concerns were being considered and a meeting had been arranged between Haulfryn's managing director and the residents' association.

He added: 'It is as much in our interest for our residents to have their privacy as it is for them.'