An elderly couple who wanted to see out their days living in a caravan on their own land have been forced to move out.
Randall Plested told the Burton Mail how he and his wife have been moved to a house in Horninglow, despite wanting to stay in the rented mobile home they have lived in for the past decade.
The pair were moved when it emerged they could not affording the planning permission that would allow them to continue living in the caravan.
The former owners of Byrkley Garden Centre used their land around the caravan to grow fruit and vegetables, but will now have to commute to harvest them.
“We were so desperate to stay we slept in the greenhouse, but we were told we couldn’t stay there either. All of our friends are in Yoxall,” 74-year-old Mr Plested told the newspaper.
Both have lived in the country all of their lives and said they had no wish to move to an urban home.
Meanwhile, a man who chose to live in a caravan and shun cash entirely was recently featured in Caravan Times about his reasons for doing so.
