A number of caravan owners who bought their mobile homes on the understanding that they could live in them all year round have been left hanging by the court.
According to the Daily Gazette, residents at Haven Village in Brightlingsea were not made aware that the site closes for the winter between December and February.
London high court judge Mr Justice Jack elected to reserve his final decision on the matter and the owners must now await written judgement.
In order to win the right to stay at the site from December to February, the residents must apply for planning permission from Tendring district council.
However, the site’s operators said to grant them permission would be a breach of local planning policy.
“We are still where we were before. The judgement leaves it open for us to apply for planning permission,” residents’ spokeswoman Jacqueline Morris told the newspaper.
“We are disappointed. The uncertainty continues and it is very stressful.”
Meanwhile, Newbury Today revealed that police are treating a fire in a disused caravan as suspicious – the fourth suspicious blaze in the town in five days.
