Garden Plot
Development
Garden Plot Development
Complete an online Garden Plot Development Application
For more information on the standards required to develop your Garden Plot, please click on the link below to download the Garden Plot Development Booklet.
Once you have decided you would like to go ahead, you will need to complete a Garden Plot Development Application, which is accessible on the link below.
Please Note: Should you require multiple works, please submit individual applications. Approval can take up to 14 days and no works may start until Garden Plot Development Applications has been approved. Written approval must be received before works can go ahead.
Personalising Your Garden Plot
The Garden Plot Development Booklet provides examples and highlights the benefits of personalising your garden plot with features such as fencing, concreting, sheds, decking and balconies, skirting, and hot tubs.
Certain hot tubs are permitted on your Garden Plot. To ensure safety and compliance, all hot tubs must be placed on a solid concrete or paved area.
Please be aware: Hot tubs significantly increase electricity usage.
For instance: Lay-Z-Spa running costs (based on https://www.lay-z-spa.co.uk/pages/lay-z-sparunning costs):
- Daily: £2.63
- Weekly: £18.41
- Annually: £957.32
Our Philosophy
Patrington Haven Leisure Park has prided itself for being at the forefront of Holiday Park design, facilities, customer services and innovation.
Recent times have allowed us as an organisation the opportunity to review many of the processes and standards we operate to. As part of this review we have recently looked at the Garden Plot standards.
The factors we have taken into account are such things as duty of care to all customers in relation to road traffic safety, fire risk, trip and slip hazards, impact on neighbours of oversize planting, overall presentation and “feel” of the Park, the growing concerns around the change in weather conditions, and the increase in “deluge” rain fall, and
increased frequency and variety of inspection by local government agencies.
The result has been to update as to how the decision making process followed in granting Garden Plot development requests will be made, which we would like to share.
Guiding Principles
- The Impact on the team or Park users, the safe enjoyment of the Park in any way, specifically in relation to, traffic line of sight or collision impact, trip or slip risk, fire distance or flammability.
- Noise or light impact on other Park users.
- Visual or “feel” impact on structures and colour palate.
- Impact on land drainage with introduction of hard or impermeable surfaces or finishes that result in soil compaction.
- Do the proposals comply with prevailing regulatory guidelines.
Moving forward these will be the criteria that will be applied and to help streamline the service to all owners. Whilst not wanting to hamper owner’s creativity, we recommend that before submitting a request ask yourself how the requests fits within the criteria set out above in the Guiding Principles.
Over the course of the year this will be the basis that Park and plot inspections will be carried out.
The First Steps
Check your request fits with the guiding principles
Please be aware the following will not be approved:
- Green houses of any sizes
- Water features of any type
- Flying flags of any types
- Astro turf
- Trellis of any size
- Pond
- Arches
- Log burners
- Any wooden structure that could pose a fire risk i.e. Shed/Gazebo will not be approved.
What Happens Next?
Your application form will be reviewed by the Patrington Haven Leisure Park team who will respond within 7-14 days via email.
At Patrington Haven Leisure Park, we use the highest standard of approved contractors. Contractors
must supply a current Public Liability Insurance Certificate before any works can be carried out with Park authorisation only. Any Owner choosing to appoint their own contractor or carry out any works of their own will be required to provide Public Liability Insurance Certificates (Minimum Liability: £2,000,000) appropriate for the work to be undertaken, at least one month before the works begin. Any works carried out must conform to the Park standards.
Park Approved Contractors
For a list of park approved contractors, please click the link.
This includes contractors for general maintenance repairs, excavation work, electrical contractors, laying concrete, used decking & skirting removal, banking removal, satellite & television, wooden fencing, gravel boards, landscape gardening, decking systems & caravan skirting, grass cutting, caravan washing, and more.
