Would you live in a residential park home?

Cleopatra_ · 27-11-2018 01:50PM #1

So I was reading this book set in America and part of it involves an RV park. It made me think of how some Americans live permanently in trailer parks. Then I had to think of these residential park homes that you can live in permanently in the UK. Now obviously these homes are much better quality than living in a mobile home, they are more like cabins I suppose. I was wondering why we don't have anything like these permanent parks in Ireland (or do we?) and if it could be a consideration especially during the housing crisis. I'm not sure if I'd live in one, my main concern would be how well insulated they are and what it would be like to live in one during the winter.

I suppose for Irish people caravans or residential parks have connotations with travellers that some may find unappealing.

https://prestigeparkandleisurehomes.co.uk/residential-park-homes/

Here is a link to one of the residential parks in the UK.

JMNolan · 27-11-2018 01:52PM

I can't move far away from my ma!

completedit · 27-11-2018 01:53PM

Depends on location.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 27-11-2018 01:54PM

We do have them here, they're called 'Halting Sites'

Deebles McBeebles · 27-11-2018 01:54PM

If it looked like the houses in the link you posted and was cheaper than a normal house, yep.

oneilla · 27-11-2018 01:55PM

Do they take rent allowance?

Cleopatra_ · 27-11-2018 01:56PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

If it looked like the houses in the link you posted and was cheaper than a normal house, yep.

Depending on the "house", you can buy one for about 70,000 (sterling) outright.

Call me Al · 27-11-2018 01:57PM

No. I wouldn't. I think im aware of a poster here who is living in something along these lines, but no it wouldn't be for me.
Central heating at the flick of a switch and a steady 20 degree temperature are two modern conveniences I couldn't live without nowadays.

Boom_Bap · 27-11-2018 01:57PM

What's the stable situation?

brevity · 27-11-2018 01:58PM

Is there room for a trampoline?

Graces7 · 27-11-2018 01:58PM

Cleopatra_ wrote: »

So I was reading this book set in America and part of it involves an RV park. It made me think of how some Americans live permanently in trailer parks. Then I had to think of these residential park homes that you can live in permanently in the UK. Now obviously these homes are much better quality than living in a mobile home, they are more like cabins I suppose. I was wondering why we don't have anything like these permanent parks in Ireland (or do we?) and if it could be a consideration especially during the housing crisis. I'm not sure if I'd live in one, my main concern would be how well insulated they are and what it would be like to live in one during the winter.

I suppose for Irish people caravans or residential parks have connotations with travellers that some may find unappealing.

https://prestigeparkandleisurehomes.co.uk/residential-park-homes/

Here is a link to one of the residential parks in the UK.

Yes for the accommodation. No for too many folk around as I am a loner. Caravans these days are very well insulated etc. My home is all but a caravan without wheels. Dry and draft proof and easy to heat.

There are holiday trailer parks here; no reason why they should not be all the year round. No real difference between them and a street in many ways

BUT one big reason for the dire shortage of rentals is that folk can make a lot more money for less work by summer renting than by all year. When I was seeking a house, that came across time after time. In one place there were 200 houses to let but as holiday homes only, closed all winter .. all about money

at one stage I was offered a winter let but come april, out you go..

Boom_Bap · 27-11-2018 01:58PM

brevity wrote: »

Is there room for a trampoline?

Decking before trampoline!

Sunflower 27 · 27-11-2018 02:00PM

They look quite nice, but I'd worry they wouldnt be well insulated.

Guy:Incognito · 27-11-2018 02:00PM

There are people here living in mobile home sites. Any of the ones in wexford that are open year round will have a couple of permanent residents. Few in dublin too.

We did work in the house of a couple in Crumlin a few months back that were living in one in North County Dublin and renting their house (retired couple) think they pissed off abroad for a couple of months a year too.

Graces7 · 27-11-2018 02:02PM

Call me Al wrote: »

No. I wouldn't. I think im aware of a poster here who is living in something along these lines, but no it wouldn't be for me.
Central heating at the flick of a switch and a steady 20 degree temperature are two modern conveniences I couldn't live without nowadays.

That is available in a modern trailer. The residential ones are superbly equipped.

see
https://www.donedeal.ie/mobilehomes-for-sale/willerby-vogue/20428897?campaign=3

and others on donedeal

Graces7 · 27-11-2018 02:03PM

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

They look quite nice, but I'd worry they wouldnt be well insulated.

Far better than a bricks and mortar house in my experience

Buford T. Justice XIX · 27-11-2018 02:21PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What's the stable situation?

I imagine once they're well tied down, they're very stable...:P

27-11-2018 02:36PM

I know someone who lived in a mobile home on the site her house was being built on. Her dad was a builder and put a lot of insulation in and a sort of fake wall on the inside (I'm sure there are better ways of describing it) and it was very cozy most of the time. Worked out very well for the situation but I'm not sure it'd be ideal long term.

It wouldn't be for me but I don't know if it's because of the trailer trash connotations or because for tens of thousands of pounds I'd rather have a more permanent structure or just some deeper bias that I'm not fully aware of.

That said, the ones in the link seem rather nice.

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-11-2018 03:35PM

there was a few of these in north dublin in the 70's

NSAman · 27-11-2018 03:40PM

Berties_Horse wrote: »

That's on another cultural level, my house by its very nature doesn't move.

Wait until liquefaction after THE BIG ONE!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 27-11-2018 03:46PM

I did my j1 in California and a friend that I made, her nana lived in a “trailer park”, and she brought me to visit once. I was horrified at the thoughts of it but I didn’t want to be rude. This girl was really nice, not trash at all. We got to the park and it was basically an old folk community. The trailers were like actual homes not mobile homes. They were huge inside, and they had a communal swimming pool and club house for parties etc, that was so well kept and super clean. They all had little gardens at the front of their homes that were kept neat and clean. It was actually beautiful.

NSAman · 27-11-2018 04:08PM

Valentino Noisy Windstorm wrote: »

I did my j1 in California and a friend that I made, her nana lived in a “trailer park”, and she brought me to visit once. I was horrified at the thoughts of it but I didn’t want to be rude. This girl was really nice, not trash at all. We got to the park and it was basically an old folk community. The trailers were like actual homes not mobile homes. They were huge inside, and they had a communal swimming pool and club house for parties etc, that was so well kept and super clean. They all had little gardens at the front of their homes that were kept neat and clean. It was actually beautiful.

Not all the American Trailer Parks have "Trailer Trash". Some in CA and FL are really nice communities. If you consider that both States have high home prices, these trailer homes make more sense.

The HOA (home owners associations) have strict guidelines as to what you can and cannot do in the community and have strict building codes and rules of conduct which will incur fines etc. if you step out of line. (I cannot see this being enforced in Ireland as HOA's have little legal powers in Ireland).

For Forks Sake · 27-11-2018 04:12PM

I'm very partial to the periwinkle blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPCtEMbUgJM

Boom_Bap · 27-11-2018 04:14PM

Valentino Noisy Windstorm wrote: »

I did my j1 in California and a friend that I made, her nana lived in a “trailer park”, and she brought me to visit once. I was horrified at the thoughts of it but I didn’t want to be rude. This girl was really nice, not trash at all. We got to the park and it was basically an old folk community. The trailers were like actual homes not mobile homes. They were huge inside, and they had a communal swimming pool and club house for parties etc, that was so well kept and super clean. They all had little gardens at the front of their homes that were kept neat and clean. It was actually beautiful.

The same in Maine, some of the trailers were lovely and had a lovely community around them.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-11-2018 04:22PM

There's one in Birr, Co. Offaly.

Tabnabs · 27-11-2018 04:25PM

These places exist in Ireland, they just stay under the radar mainly. There's probably an argument for well controlled and regulated sites being allowed to operate to cater for low income folks.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/families-face-homelessness-amid-caravan-park-closure-1.2768720

freshpopcorn · 27-11-2018 04:34PM

It's something I'd be open to depending on who my neighbours would be.

Graces7 · 28-11-2018 09:09AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's something I'd be open to depending on who my neighbours would be.

That applies wherever you live ..

Jimjay · 28-11-2018 09:12AM

There was one in Greystones County Wicklow until recently

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/families-face-homelessness-amid-caravan-park-closure-1.2768720?mode=amp

Graces7 · 28-11-2018 09:27AM

Jimjay wrote: »

There was one in Greystones County Wicklow until recently

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/families-face-homelessness-amid-caravan-park-closure-1.2768720?mode=amp

\an appalling situation.

Given the current dire need of housing, well run trailer parks as they have in the US and Canada, could provide a real solution.

Maybe easier for we who grew up in immediate post war England. Massive housing needs after the bombings. Far worse than Ireland now.

The solution then was prefabs. Acres of them were a common sight.

I live in what is basically a prefab; a demountable dwelling. There was nowhere else to go. For some reason they are not used enough here. Nor are trailers.

freshpopcorn · 28-11-2018 09:29AM

if the government did announce one of these being built I could see certain TD's giving out because it's simply not good enough.

Would you live in a residential park home?

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