All park home sites where you sell or rent to residents need a fit and proper person on our register. This is to help improve the standards of park home site management. This is to comply with The Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020.
Site operators may like to consider becoming members of a recognised trade association for park homes, where they can benefit from:
- training courses
- webinars
- access to specialist advisers covering a range of topics relevant to park home sites
Such courses and advice can be used to support Fit and Proper Persons in their roles at park homes sites.
Examples of such trade associations include:
- the British Holiday and Home Parks Association representing the interests of the parks industry in the UK and provides training courses
- the National Caravan Council leading and promoting the industry
Who can apply
The person with day-to-day responsibility for managing a site should apply. This could be:
- the site owner
- a person appointed to undertake the task on the owner’s behalf
The site owner and licence holder should complete the form and pay the fee themselves.
If the site owner is a company or a corporate body, the form must be completed by an appropriate person. The appropriate person could be:
- a director or other officer of the company
- a partner, where the site owner is a partnership
- a member of the management committee
Before you start
You will need a DBS certificate, this should be no more than 6 months old when you apply from an approved supplier via the GOV.UK website.
The fee:
- is £297 per application
- should be paid by the site owner and licence holder
Yearly fee for existing entry on the fit and proper persons register:
- £0 for standard conditions
- £66 for any extra conditions
Apply to be added to the register
Download the application form to apply. Once completed return to caravantentparksite@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk.
What happens next
Once you have submitted payment, we will process your application and add your entry to our fit and proper person register.
Making changes to an entry
Making changes to an entry on the fit and proper person register.
You will need to complete a new application and pay the fee if:
- you need to transfer the site licence to someone else
- there is a change in management of a site
- we have removed a person from the register