The owner of Nook Park has provided a major update on the mobile homes site after building work there has been criticised.
Joe Burns told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that current works to expand the site in Great Horwood, Milton Keynes, will conclude in eight weeks.
He said: “That’s all the groundworks, the site will be clean and tidy and then the new homes get delivered.”
The update comes after Mr Burns has removed hedges, lawns, paths and trees in recent months to expand Nook Park after taking it over in 2021.
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However, residents of the park homes estate claim they have not been consulted on the changes, which they say have turned their surroundings into a building site.
Mr Burns denies that tenants have not been kept informed, although admitted “we are not getting much happiness on the site”.
He added: “All the people on site know. They are sent letters regularly from my office even though they don’t respond.
“We organised two meetings. The architect and the consultants were there with their plans, and we had to cancel the meeting. Nobody would turn up.”
However, Nook Park resident Andy Waller claims he was not consulted before his garden pitch was excavated.
The 60-year-old won a tribunal over the issue in August, which heard that Mr Burns was in breach of a statement under the Mobile Homes Act 1983 due to having “moved his pitch without permission”.
Andy Waller, who moved into his Nook Park home in September 2020, is sceptical of the timeframe for building work at the site, which he says is still a mess.
He told the LDRS: “The current state of the site hasn’t changed from what it was several weeks or months ago.
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“There is still just mud and hardcore, gravel everywhere, footpaths are still non-existent. There has been no replanting of vegetation despite instruction to.
“I can’t see how eight weeks is going to transform the site into usable plots. There is no electricity for the new plots.”
Another Nook Park resident, Dr Jacqueline Hughes, said her garden is intact but that other people’s plots have been impacted by the building work.
The retiree, who has lived on the estate for a year, told the LDRS: “There are a load of people’s gardens that have been wrecked. I look down on two houses that have had their gardens wrecked.
“From my kitchen, All I see is rubble heaped up onto what was Andy’s front garden. Other than that, it is pretty peaceful here. All the hedges have gone.”
Dr Hughes has demanded that current building work cease due to the “huge risk” to residents and has also asked for the Secretary of State to investigate whether Nook Park is properly insured and licenced.
Mr Burns told the LDRS: “Public liability insurance, caravan park licence insurance, it’s all there and tenants have been sent a copy of it.”
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