Willow Wood Residential Park

The Scottish Government’s Housing Minister, Margaret Burgess, launched the The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 at Willow Wood Park in West Lothian on Friday 30 August 2013.
Willow Wood was chosen for the launch in recognition of the pioneering work carried out by the residents there in promoting these changes through their very active residents association.
Accompanied by local MSP and Minister for Youth Employment, Angela Constance,  the minister told a large gathering of residents that she was particularly delighted to be able to announce the changes which would greatly affect park home residents in Scotland for the better. Ms Burgess said  ”In relation to the residential mobile home sector we aim to improve protection for residents through strengthening written agreements with site owners.  We also wish to ensure that the changes reflect considerable improvement in relation to the key issue that enabled the sale of a mobile home to be blocked by the site owner.”  The Minister went on to announce that changes to park home licensing will be included in the 2013 Housing Bill.