Lighthouse Park, Monmouthshire

Residential Park (find out more here)

Description

Lighthouse Park is an exclusive residential park is a modern development which has won local awards over the years. The park is open to retirees and the semi-retired, and bases close to the Severn Estuary, offering country and waterside views. The park is also close to the local coastline, offering views across the Bristol Channel.

This park aims to offer a quiet and peaceful foothold between Cardiff and Newport, offering convenient links between the two while remaining secluded for residents to enjoy. The park forms part of the Berkeley Parks catalogue, a brand which has provided park home living for over 50 years. The site may appeal to retirees keen to explore the Monmouthshire coast, whether solo or with a partner.

Why Choose Lighthouse Park?

Lighthouse Park is a residential community open to new residents aged 50 years and older. It, therefore, aims to create a caring atmosphere for the semi-retired and retirees, far from city and town living elsewhere. The modern park benefits from local conveniences and links to attractions and day out ideas across the region.

Residents at the park will benefit from careful community maintenance, with award-winning grounds on show across the year. The park has a strong community spirit, and park management advises that they will always be happy to offer advice and recommendations with regard to the local area.

The park offers independent living standards with the opportunity for homeowners to explore local Newport, as well as to get to know new friends in a close-knit neighbourhood. The aim of the park is to bring Monmouthshire’s popular sites of interest to new residents in a convenient bolthole.

The park will consider pets, with a maximum of one dog or one cat welcomed on-site. It is recommendable to approach the park’s owners regarding these rules before visiting. 

Lighthouse Park’s Location

Lighthouse Park is, as the name suggests, close to nearby coastline and sea views. Only a short walk or drive to the coast, the site offers views across the Bristol Channel and is close to various seaside and rural communities.

Park residents will be able to explore the local area through bus links just outside the entrance, available to book exclusively in advance. These services will link homeowners close to communities in Newport and Cardiff, as well as village amenities nearby. The local area offers shops, supermarket facilities, hairdressers and more. There are also full medical facilities close by for maximum convenience.

Residents may wish to take a look at the Lighthouse Inn, a restaurant and pub offering traditional English drinks and meals, as well as regular entertainment.

There are also leisure facilities close by in the form of golf clubs, rugby clubs and swimming pools. There is also a variety of fishing opportunities at rural lakes and waters in the local area.

Residents may wish to connect to the park via the A48(M), heading from Cardiff through to Newport, splitting off down local roads towards the coast.

Park Rules for Lighthouse Park

Preface

In these rules:

· “occupier” means anyone who occupies a park home, whether under an Agreement to which the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 applies or under a tenancy or any other agreement.

· “you” and “your” refers to the homeowner and any other occupier of a park home

· “we” and “our” refers to the park owner

These rules are in place to ensure acceptable standards are maintained on the park, which will be of general benefit to occupiers, and to promote and maintain community cohesion. They form part of the Agreement by which homeowners occupy the pitch in accordance with the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013.

With one exception the rules also apply to any occupiers of park homes who rent their home.

The only rule which does not apply to occupiers who rent their home is rule 30 about the colour of the exterior of the home, as someone renting their home would not be responsible for exterior maintenance.

None of these rules is to have retrospective effect. Accordingly:

· they are only to apply from the date on which they take effect, which is 2nd February 2016; and

· no occupier who is in occupation on that date will be treated as being in breach due to circumstances which were in existence on that date and which would not have been a breach of the rules in existence before that date.

These rules also apply (for so long as they live on the park) to the park owner and any employees, with the exception of the following rules 13 and 24.

Condition of the Pitch

1. For reasons of ventilation and safety you must keep the underneath of your home clear and not use it as a storage space.

2. You must not erect fences or other means of enclosure unless you have obtained our approval (which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). You must position the fences and any other means of enclosure so as to comply with the park’s site licence conditions and fire safety requirements and to a maximum of 1m in height. Park boundary hedges and or fences must not be interfered with and no unauthorised entrances to the park are permitted.

3. Trees and Shrubs and other planting must not be permitted to grow to a size or shape to interfere with a neighbour’s pitch.

4. You must not have external fires, including use of incinerators

5. You must not keep inflammable substances on the park except in quantities reasonable for domestic use.

6. You must not keep explosive substances on the park.

Storage

7. You must not have more than one storage shed on the pitch. Where you source the shed yourself the design, standard and size of the shed must be approved by us in writing (approval will not be withheld unreasonably). You must position the shed so as to comply with the park’s site licence and fire safety requirements. The footprint of the shed shall not exceed 48 square feet or 4.47 square metres.

8. You must not have any storage receptacles on the pitch other than the shed referred to in rule 7 and any receptacles for the storage of domestic waste pending collection by the local authority.

9. You must ensure that any structure erected in the separation space between park homes is of a non-combustible construction and positioned so as to comply with the park’s site licence conditions and fire safety requirements. The separation space is the space between your park home and any neighbouring home.

Refuse

10. You are responsible for the disposal of all household, recyclable and garden waste in approved containers through the local authority service. You must not overfill containers and must place them in the approved position for the local authority collections.

11. You must not deposit any waste or rubbish other than in local authority approved containers on any part of the park (including any individual pitch).

Business Activities

12. You must not use the park home, the pitch or the park (or any part of the park) for any business purpose and you must not use the park home or the pitch for storage of stock, plant, machinery or equipment used or last used for any business purpose. However, you are at liberty to work individually from home by carrying out any office work of a type which does not create a nuisance to other occupiers and does not involve other staff, other workers, customers or members of the public calling at the park home or the park.

Age of Occupants

13. No person under the age of 50 years may reside in a park home, with the exception of the park owner and their family or the park owner’s employees.

Noise Nuisance

14. You must not use musical instruments, all forms of recorded music players, radios and other similar appliances and motor vehicles so as to cause a nuisance to other occupiers, especially between the hours of 10.30pm and 8.00am.

 Pets

15. You must not keep any pet or animal at the park home or on the pitch except for one of the following:

- Not more than 1 dog (other than any of the breeds subject to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 which are not permitted). You must keep any dog under proper control and you must not permit it to frighten other users of the park. You must keep any dog on a leash and must not allow it to despoil the park.

Or

- Not more than 1 domestic cat.

Note

The express terms of a homeowner’s Agreement contain an undertaking on the part of the homeowner not to allow anything which is or becomes a

nuisance, inconvenience or disturbance to other occupiers at the park and this undertaking extends to the behaviour of pets and animals. A similar

requirement not to cause a nuisance applies to tenants and again this includes the behaviour of pets and animals.

16. Nothing in rule 15 of these Park Rules prevents you from keeping an assistance dog if this is required to support your disability and Assistance Dogs UK or any successor body has issued you with an Identification Book or other appropriate evidence.

Water

17. You must only use fire equipment in case of fire.

18. You must protect all external water pipes from the base upwards from potential frost damage.

Vacant Pitches

19. You must not access vacant pitches and must not disturb building materials and plant.

Vehicles and Parking

20. You must drive all vehicles on the park carefully and within the displayed speed limit.

21. Parking is only permitted for one vehicle per park home.

22. You must not park on the roads or grass verges.

23. You must not park anywhere except in the permitted parking spaces.

24. Other than for the delivering goods and services, you must not park or allow the parking of commercial vehicles of any sort including:

Light commercial or light goods vehicles as described in the vehicle taxation legislation and;

Vehicles intended for domestic use but derived from or adapted from such a commercial vehicle 

With the exception of commercial vehicles operated by the park owner, their family and the park owner’s employees.

25. You must not park Boats, Camper Vans, Motorhomes, Touring Caravans or Trailers of any sort on the park.

26. You must hold a current driving licence and be insured to drive any vehicle which is your responsibility on the park. You must also ensure that any vehicle you drive on the park is taxed in accordance with the requirements of law and is in a roadworthy condition.

27. Disused or unroadworthy vehicles must not be kept anywhere on the park. We reserve the right to remove any vehicle which is apparently abandoned.

28. You must not carry out the following works or repairs on the park:

(a) major vehicle repairs involving dismantling of part(s) of the engine

(b) works which involve the removal of lubricants or fuel.

Weapons

29. You must not use or display guns, firearms and offensive weapons (including crossbows) on the park and you may only keep them on the pitch or in your home if you hold the appropriate licence, a copy of which should be provided to the park owners, and they are securely stored in accordance with that licence.

External Decoration

30. Homeowners must maintain the outside of their park home in a clean and tidy condition. Where the exterior is repainted or recovered homeowners must use reasonable endeavours not to depart from the original exterior colour-scheme.

Address

Lighthouse Park
St. Brides Wentlooge
Newport
Monmouthshire
NP10 8SL