Welford Riverside Park /
BINTON BRIDGES CARAVAN PARK
Things you should know
Located less than 5 miles from
Stratford upon Avon UK, Binton Bridges is a Caravan Holiday Home Park
adjoining the River Avon with Mooring and Fishing rights for the owner
occupied homes.
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A quote from the
caravan site owners website:
“From 2007 the Park is set to introduce additional pitches
to site new caravans and so will no doubt have used caravans for sale”
Read on for the reasons why …
This site overlooks the River Avon and is subject to flooding. Even low-level floods cause the site to close because the sewage system relies on a pump, which is at the lowest level on the site. This can happen quite frequently. Serious floods such as occurred this year on 20 July 2007 and Easter weekend in 1998 cause devastation of caravans and urgent evacuation. Helicopter rescue was necessary in the latest instance. Look at the photos.
The picture of staff being rescued from the Four Alls public house, by helicopter, during the severe flood on 20 July 2007 , has been removed at the request of the photographer. however this link shows the same event from a different angle....
INSURANCE
Insurance is the responsibility of
the individual caravan owner and premiums have been getting higher each year
(Any idea why?)
1998 Floods
2007 Floods
REIMBURSMENT
You will not receive any credit of
your annual pitch licence from the site owner for loss of use of your caravan.
Nor will you receive credit of licence fee if you sell your caravan later than
June. Even if you sell before that you will only get 40% of your fee returned.
Caravans are only allowed to be
sold on the site before they become 10 years old. You cannot advertise on site. The site owners must first
approve prospective buyers. Sales must go through site owners business and they
will deduct 15% of your money. If you fail to find a buyer the site owners will
offer you a very low price and you will lose a lot of money.
Caravans over 15 years old have to be removed at the owners cost. You must first pay the
owners fee (£5000 has been mentioned) to even get it to the park gate since any
other company will not be allowed on his site.
BULLYING
If you disagree with the site
owners, on any point, they will threaten you with eviction of you and your
caravan. Without the benefit of the pitch you will not be able to sell and will
be faced with a possible £5000 site owners bill to get it removed.
You cannot resist the threats however unreasonable because your pitch fee gives
you a contract only until the end of December. You can only renew if you are
invited to by the owner – see the catch?
Examples:
The new owners from 1st Aug 2006 immediately
started to impose unpleasant new rules that caused a lot of resentment and
adverse comment. The first 3 people to comment were virtually evicted in quick
succession. In each case these were elderly people who were also seriously ill.
The first couple were a disabled pensioner and his wife who had cancer. The
second brave objector was awaiting a heart bypass operation and the third was
suffering severe heart problems and actually HAD a heart attack during this period of extended bullying.
1998 Floods
NON EXISTENT ROAD
One couple were told that their
pitch was required for a new access road and they had to leave to make way for
it. However, when the site reopened on the 1st March instead of the road, there
was a caravan occupied by the site owners Son.
OFFICE of FAIR TRADING DECIDED THE CONTRACT WAS UNFAIR
There is a list of about 37
clauses detailing what you cannot do on this site so it is easy for fault to be
found and used as a reason to evict you. One rule even states how many pot
plants are allowed! The contract contained so many illegal clauses that the
Office of Fair Trading stepped in with a 3-page list of items that had to be
changed.
SPACE & VIEW
The site is licensed to site even
more caravans so you can expect that the opportunity to rake more money in will
cause the view and available space to be reduced
drastically.
All of this has changed the atmosphere on the site from a holiday camp to a
prison camp where everybody is afraid to speak openly for fear of becoming the
next victim and facing a large financial loss.
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We hope you have found this
information useful and would love to hear your comments. Are you an ex-owner at
this site, why not share your comments here to help us to further reflect the
truth! Are you a current owner and want to fight back and state your case? In
all cases we will never publish any personally identifiable information if you don’t
want us to.
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We can be contacted on:
MyStory@bintonbridgespark.co.uk
Or alternatively you may wish to publicise
your comments about the caravan site at these review sites:
DISCLAIMER
This site represents the views and
opinions of previous caravan owners at Binton Bridges Caravan Park near
Stratford on Avon. The information is factual. The purpose of making
this information public is to give interested parties a fuller picture of the
park so they are better informed to make any further decisions in relation to
signing an agreement at this park. The creator of this web site has no
affiliation with this or any other caravan park. This website does not reflect
the opinions of the Caravan Park owner in any way.