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]]>The same goes for lodges but they are more expensive to purchase meaning this is still a more expensive option.
With the more expensive upfront costs though come various perks and a somewhat larger profit. It was eventually decided that the lodge homes would sit better in the plot and so this is they way they decided to go.
Having decided that they would like to create a lodge park they now had to obtain permissions. This is a long process involving a bunch of forms all including Lodge Park Planning Permission. They also had to consult a number of bodies to ensure that they would be operating inside the law.
They needed to plan well in order to use the land to best effect and still obey all of the rules regarding spacing to obey fire regulations etc., but they eventually had a plan and were all set to make the application.
Getting the permission is not guaranteed so Kevin and his family were left on tenterhooks waiting for it to be approved. Eventually, they received permission for 20 lodge parks.
Great. All they need to do now is put them up, right? Well not really. There is still an option to build in stages. They would need to keep the units close together as a phase one development.
Sadly for Kevin, he doesn’t yet have a certificate of lawful use. Perhaps you might have a piece of land which does though. A Certificate of Lawful Use is the holy grail of parks permissions. If you have a plot which has had a caravan where someone has lived in for at least ten years, it is likely that you would be granted a Certificate of Lawful use.
Back to Kevin’s land though, he needs to get services brought in. Again, what is the best option? Obviously, he must bring in water and electric, however, what about broadband? Should the site be futureproofed? Kevin believes they should but there is a large cost implication and other members of the family feel that it is not worthwhile. After all don’t people go on holiday for peace and quiet. Kevin believes that kids who are used to easy access to the internet are not likely to provide much peace if they cannot get on!
And what about gas. Many parks are on mains gas while others use bottled gas. How long is gas going to be used though? Kevin has heard that people are moving away from gas and that it might be turned off.
Another thing that they also consider is installing charging points for electric cars. There is talk of petrol being phased out and this being the case then charging points will become more and more important. There is also the question of whether to have a parking area for them or whether to place one by each home as it is sited.
Creating a site is a labour of love and requires a lot of personal sacrifice. Is it worth it? Well, it is currently one of the fastest growing industries in the UK at the moment so there is certainly a business opportunity. The question is whether you are willing to go through the process.
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]]>A. I’ve been in the park home industry for about 9 years and started off by getting a call out to do a roof on a park home and it sort of flourished from there and then went into actual park homes as opposed to just roofing and the business flourished and sort of grew.
A. No it sort of just clicked, it felt like it was what I was meant to be doing and everything sort of fell into place really. There have been some hurdles along the way but you know there are always ways around them or over them or through them if it comes to it.
A. We love to get a lot of feedback from our customers. We want to continuously understand what their needs are and what they want. Because unless you’re supplying what you want, then you’re not really doing well are you.
A. I think it can be improved in a lot of ways to be honest. I’d say one important thing to do is maintenance plans that we do which I think it’s important and not many people do that. It needs to be worked on and put forward a bit more. A lot of customers need a lot of jobs done and are breaking the bank for them.
A. I’d say customer service. Making sure that the customers are always happy and satisfied with the service. Making sure that the job is fully understood and making sure that the guys are doing a good job. Making sure that we keep a good schedule and get everything done to the best of our ability. Keep a tight ship and take care of our customers.
A. There’s nothing that we have faced that has been extremely challenging. Just always ensuring that the jobs we are doing are to the best of our ability and that our customers are completely satisfied to avoid any troubles.
A. It really depends on the day. There is always something on my mind. Whether it be the next day, the current day or something in months time. I’m always thinking ahead. Always something to do with the business.
A. Park operator – it’s just maintaining the parks and listening to the residents. Seeing what their needs are for the actual park. We see a lot of park operators that are very neglectful of their parks, a lot of them have a bad reputation which is never a good thing.
Supplier – maintaining great customer care and satisfaction. Making sure that you’re listening to what your clients need and that you’re following through with what they want.
A. We have the maintenance plan – it’s a £30 a month plan, where a customer calls us up and we do an initial property survey for them, checking to see if there’s any problems.
If there are any existing problems then we sign them up and every 2 years we come and do a survey on their property. And every 4 years we book them out and paint their house free of charge.
Check if there’s any damage to their property, for example, damp on their walls and we help them out and do any damage control free of charge too.
A. I’d like you to work with the park operators. When they’re selling any new homes, they can put our maintenance plan out there.
A. The thing that stands in the way is probably…sleep. No but really, it’s more finance related. Ensuring that you have a great plan and are not taking in more than you should. Get your name out there and grow your brand awareness. Ensure you’re marketing your company correctly.
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]]>For years now Fitrite have been designing and installing uPVC decking for their customers. Located in Doncaster, they provide nationwide services across all of the UK.
What makes them special? They offer eco-friendly and non-slip deck boards. This means that their customers are able to use their gardens and decked-out terraces all year round, in sunshine and in rain.
Fitrite manufactures, supplies and installs low maintenance products that require little to none painting, sealing or staining. Not only is their decking hard wearing and waterproof but it is also easy to clean and is stain, scratch and crack resistant. Their product quality doesn’t stop there either. With Fitrite, they also provide a wide range of colours that are available to pick from as well as a diverse choice of other accessories such as fencing and lighting.
If that wasn’t enough, they also offer their customers a 10 year insurance backed guarantee with 0% finance options. This provides their customers further reassurance and protection, making sure there is continuous customer service satisfaction.
Fitrite provides decking, fencing and balustrades to park homes, holiday parks, gardens and any commercial property. Their revolutionary alternatives to wood ensures that it is budget friendly and does not cost the earth. This not only transforms your surroundings and upgrades your space but also adds value to your property or business.
It is their care for the environment, their customers and the park home industry that truly showed us that they’re deserving of the PHHPA regional award. Our Director General visited Fitrite during his road trip where he had the pleasure of personally handing the award to Fitrite. Walking through their depot in Doncaster and reviewing their showcased, high quality designs and seeing their commitment to making sure they are as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible is truly inspiring.
On behalf of the park home and holiday park association we would like to congratulate Fitrite for their outstanding contribution as a successful manufacturer and we wish you great success in the future.
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]]>The point is that Henry Ford, and other automobile innovators thought of something that could be better than horses as a general means of transport. Somebody had an idea and built a car. And since then, a succession of people’s ideas have improved cars.
This is a continual process. People are thinkers, some people are innovators. They take their ideas, their dreams and turn them into our reality.
”One day I learned that dreams exist to come true. And since that day I do not sleep for rest. I sleep just to dream.”
Walt Disney
“Money doesn’t excite me, my ideas excite me.”
Walt Disney
I am going to argue that all of this comes down to one major difference between the Super-successful and others. I would suggest that it is mindset. The have a mindset that will always strive to achieve, no matter how hard they have to work, no matter the set-backs and failures, no matter what, they do whatever it takes.
What are PHHPA Perfect Picks?
PHHPA Perfect Picks are leader boards that we created in order to showcase our favourite Park industry locations. In this feature of the magazine we decided to give you our top beach locations. Whilst we are aware that the holiday season is coming to a close, we wanted to share these locations so you can get excited for your next trip and avoid the holiday blues. Each magazine is going to have a different category and theme. Don’t miss out on our leader boards, your park could be listed next! The leader boards are to showcase beautiful locations/ parks but also to recommend great places to visit for holidaymakers. Who will be on top next?
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]]>Focus is essential when it comes to achieving success. If we try to do too many things and hedge our bets, we spread ourselves too thin. We will never achieve that expertise we need if we are trying to be jack of all trades. I am not suggesting that you can build a business without knowing how to do most of the jobs involved.
Most of us need to do our own marketing, our own book-keeping and our own admin to start with. But we need to become experts at our core offering. We need to live and breathe our product.
“Stick to what you know before you move on to something new – Become the master!”
Alfie Best
“We have created a niche, and we became professionals at what we do because we focused hard and fast on one industry.”
Alfie Best
Sometimes we all hold back, we all have that feeling of uncertainty, the wrench in our gut. Here is when we need to push ourselves, push on through … or have somebody to push for you. In Richard St John’s talk he says that is why we have mums!
It doesn’t have to be your mum but if you can find someone who can push you when you are struggling to push yourself then great. The truth is though that I suspect few innovators have somebody who will push them in this way. Most of us are likely to have many more people surrounding us who think that we should give up.
These are not horrible people. These are people who believe that what they are doing is in your best interest. They cannot see your vision … they just see you struggling to achieve something that they do not understand and possibly believe is not possible … like going to space despite not being an astronaut!
Steal magnate Andrew Carnegie says, “You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”
“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.”
Andrew Carnegie
“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
Zig Ziglar
St John identified serving people as one of the secrets of success. Certainly, if you find a way to help someone with a problem then you are headed on a good path. It is commonly held that your product or service must address an issue that people are having.
This is of course not the only way to create something that people will buy. If anyone out there is old enough to remember pet rocks (they were literally smooth stones from a Mexican beach with googly eyes and a painted mouth), then you would have to agree that they didn’t solve any problems. This did not stop them being the collectable of 1975.
What it did do was raise a smile. People need amusement in their lives so there is a huge industry in entertainment, from this point of view I guess even pet rocks served a need. A need to be amused. Most idea’s need to be more than vaguely amusing though.
Most ideas need to serve people, whether it is a faster solution or an eco-friendly option it needs to benefit some section of humanity. This only makes good sense, but most successful people would go beyond this. Most head up charities or trusts and are involved in altruistic projects.
“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
Warren Buffet
One thing that none of the super-rich are short of is ideas. Look at how many businesses Richard Branson has run. Look at how many technical innovations Lord Sugar has been behind. Not all of these ventures have been successful, but this does not stop these people, they just keep going. If nobody had ideas, then we would still be living in caves. If people had ideas but were too nervous to try them, again, welcome to my cave. It is the dream, the idea which starts in the mind that becomes the innovation. There is a quote, perhaps by Henry Ford which says:
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
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]]>Anyone who has ever built a business will know how much hard work is involved in just getting it off of the ground. It is like trying to get a rocket up. It takes an immense amount of fuel to get off of the ground and through the atmosphere.
Once it is up and running you can breathe a sign of relief and put your feet up … oh no wait!
Alfie Best self-made multi-millionaire and chairman of Europe’s largest park home operator Wyldecrest Parks says that the reason he is successful is not because he is more intelligent or more astute than other people but that while they are prepared to work one hour, he will work three.
And he is not alone.
“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour workweeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”
Elon Musk
Persistence is another trait which this people have in abundance. We are all able to be persistent to a degree. We can all pull an all-nighter occasionally if we need to complete a project. To work 100 hours week in and week out that takes the kind of persistence most of us mere mortals cannot summon.
Most businesspeople will be contented once they reach a level where they consider they have “made it” or at least that they have achieved their goals.
“I know I’m fortunate to live an extraordinary life — I’ve been knighted, met the most extraordinary people and attended the most amazing events — but there’s never been a point in my career in which I’ve felt I’ve ‘made it.’”
Richard Branson
I wonder if most of us can even conceive of the goals that the super-successful set. Richard Branson and Elon Musk have both just been to space!!! Can you even imagine putting that on your goals list? To achieve this these entrepreneurs have had to persist against the people who said it couldn’t be done, against the fact that the technology was not there to achieve it when they set their goal and even against COVID-19.
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]]>It is said that if you do what you love you will never work a day in your life. I am not sure that many businesspeople would agree with that, especially in the light of the comments that they make about work. I do believe, however that they believe it is essential for success.
The truth is I suppose that if you love what you do, if you are passionate about it then you don’t mind putting in the hard hours, taking the risks, continuing in the face of adversity and ignoring the naysayers.
“Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self- defeating.”
Lord Sugar
“Zig Ziglar says, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Being passionate will make you motivated. This is the kind of motivation that comes from within. Occasionally we all need a bit of a pep talk, a bit of an uplift and that is why motivational speakers do so well.
This kind of motivation though does not hold though.
Being passionate will help you stay motivated during the tough times.
Building a business is hard, hard work and there will be times when you want to give up, where you think you cannot move another step, where you feel that you have given everything you have to give. The COVID 19 pandemic will have taken many businesses to the very limits. Passion will be what helped people survive.
It also feels fantastic to be doing what we love. There will be moments when we are struggling but when we look overall at what we are doing it will give a sense of satisfaction.
“People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”
Elon Musk
Practice, practice, practice!
According to Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers it takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills. That being the case, if you practiced for three hours a day intensively then it would take you a little over 9 years to gain expertise in that skill.
Daniel Coyle, in his book The Talent Code explores why practice is so important. Whenever we do a new activity or learn something new, we create neural pathways. As we practice, we create myelin these neural pathways develop myelin sheaths. These sheaths strengthen the pathways which help the impulses to travel more quickly. The more we practice the thicker the myelin thickens and the thicker it becomes the more established the pathway becomes. He writes:
“To sum up: it’s time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.”
Daniel Coyle
Practice requires patience and dedication. The super-successful have this in spades. They will toil night and day to become the expert they need to be to make their ideas come to fruition.
“Patience is a key element of success.”
Bill Gates
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]]>Following the new regulations, from 1st October 2021 park operators must be a fit and proper person to
lawfully operate a park home sites or have a fit and proper site manager in place (unless you are exempt).
Continuing to operate in contravention of these regulations is a criminal offence. Failure to comply could result in negative sanctions and could be given an unlimited fine.
It is also an offence for an occupier to withhold information from or include false or misleading information in a registration application.
The local authority can apply to the FTT for a site licence to be revoked where there has been a contravention of the regulations by the licence holder.
Residential and/or retirement park owners operating a site must apply to their local authority for the relevant person to be included in the local register of fit and proper persons to manage a site.
It is exempt if it is a family occupied site. This means they are only occupied by members of the same family and are not run on a commercial basis.
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]]>According to Jason Batty of Eureka Capital Allowances many property owners are unaware that they are sitting on assets that could entitle them to hundreds, thousand or even ten thousand pounds worth of future savings and cash rebates that their accountants are unable to claim.
Every month Eureka identifies millions in unclaimed relief which has been overlooked.
This is because they are experts at uncovering ‘embedded fixtures’ that only qualified surveyors and capital allowances experts are able to identify.
According to Eureka, one of the UK Tax legislation’s biggest secrets is that property owners are entitled to claim tax relief on items essential to the running of their business. These items are known as fixtures, and which are often there when you bought the property but can also include work carried out since.
Eureka’s team are experts in identifying these fixtures in many different property types including hotels, holiday parks, self- catering properties, doctors, dentists, nursing homes, retail and more.
A capital allowance is an expenditure that you can claim against your taxable profit. This can be anything that you
purchased for use in your business such as a computer or machine.
Some essential items that were in the property when you bought it are fixtures against which you can claim capital allowances, and this can also apply to fixtures added since purchase.
To find out if you have been missing out on hidden funds then you can have a free no obligation chat.
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]]>Family and Pinewood Park has charms to suit the whole family. All you need to do is turn up, then let your imagination, and your kids, run wild. You pets are also welcome at this beautiful 7-acre site. With scenic views all around, you can allow yourself to get lost in nature and the countryside, spending as much time as you would like to explore all the scenic glory.
And if the seven acres of Park are not enough for you to explore then you are on the edge of the spectacular North York Moors.
O that is completely tailored to your vision.” nce you have finished enjoying the countryside, or walking on the beach, you can indulge with a tipple of your choice in the hot tub, soaking up peace and serenity.
Dave and Kerry’s efforts and dedication to their park are evident from the minute you arrive at the entrance. With a strong work ethic in place, they always go above and beyond for their visitors, ensuring everyone is smiling and enjoying their stay. Giving visitors a magical and memorable holiday is what makes this couple tick.
It is for this reason that the Pinewood Park has received the FIRST Park Home and Holiday Park Association regional award. The PHHPA are an association for park operators, providers and suppliers. Their mission is to recognise, support, and train those within the park home industry, including camping, glamping, and touring sites. They do this through their exhaustive training programme, awards and extensive social media marketing.
The decision to award Pinewood Park as the first regional winners was easy. PHHPA director general, Bradley Chapman says, “watching them during lockdown continuously improve and develop their site was truly inspirational”. They never gave up and kept developing, building and promoting their site.
Dave and Kerry are relentless in their attitude and work hard to look after their customers. No ask or request is too hard for them and for that they are well deserved PHHPA Regional Award Winners for going above and beyond for their site and its visitors.
But what if you have something more than a family break in mind? Why not book out the whole site for your shindig?
Kerry says, “We love a good celebration at Pinewood Park! Whether you are celebrating your marriage, civil partnership, engagement, birthday, reunion, christening, anniversary, retirement, or any other kind of get- together, you are guaranteed a memorable experience that is completely tailored to your vision.”
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