A furious man says the owners of a caravan park have moved his dad's static home after he forked out his life savings to buy it.
Mark Robinson and his late father Raymond, who had had terminal cancer, pitched in to buy the caravan in Towyn, Conwy, reports the Daily Post.
Mark says his dad helped him buy it in order that he could get away to have some respite. But when he travelled from his home in the West Midlands to the Lyons Holiday Parks site last week he was shocked to find it had been moved plot and someone else's caravan was on his spot.
His own static caravan is now lying some 100 yards away near the entrance.
“I should have been given a notice to quit or an eviction notice but I was not," said Mr Robinson, a former motor mechanic like his late father.
However, Lyons Holiday Parks said ownership of the caravan had not been formally transferred by Raymond Robinson to his son, and also claimed that site fees had not been paid.
The firm said the caravan was over a 20-year age limit to be on site.
They allowed a six-month "grace" period but say that it has now been moved.
Lyons also says Mr Robinson made death threats to staff when he visited the park on Friday, June 16, but Mr Robinson denied this claim.
Mr Robinson told North Wales Live: “My Dad just loved to be in North Wales. We would stay in our caravan and I would take him to Llandudno to watch the town band play at night.”
He says that along with his father hebought the second hand Carnaby Siesta caravan from Lyons for £15,000 in June 2019 and its plot was on their Oakfield's site in Towyn.
Tragically, Mr Robinson's dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died in May 2020, aged 88, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr Robinson said when he drove to the static caravan in Towyn last Thursday for a break he was angry to have found another one on his plot.
He said: "It was gone and another one was there instead."
Mr Robinson asked around and discovered his van had been moved to near the entrance.
He claimed gas bottles had vanished from the caravan and when he went inside it he found his "TV was on the floor" and personal belongings remained inside.
I should have been given a notice to quit or an eviction notice but I was not," he said.
"I’ve had no correspondence. Now Lyons are asking me 'What do I want to do with it?' They have treated me like dirt," he claimed.
Mr Robinson said the family had a previous caravan for 29 years at Lyons' Towyn park before part exchanging it in 2019.
He also claims that he tried to pay the disputed site fees early last October.
After discovering his caravan had been moved Mr Robinson tried in vain to find the person who sold him and his father the caravan in 2019.
However, police were called over him allegedly harassing staff which he denied. The park have not made any formal complaint to the police about Mr Robinson.
Luckily Mr Robisnon used his American Dodge "day" van for the 250-mile round trip from the West Midlands to Towyn and was able to stay in it when he found his caravan had been moved to a temporary "plot".
But he says the Dodge van has no cooking or proper sleeping facilities and he has had to wash in toilets in Pensarn.
Lyons Holiday Parks said that no site fees were paid for the current year which would have been due on December 1 of each year.
A Lyons spokesperson added: "Mr Robinson was an owner with Lyons Holiday Parks prior to sadly passing away. Usually when such a change occurs with ownership it is standard practice that a next of kin would be in touch to transfer all details over to another party of the family - unfortunately, this didn’t occur.
"The holiday home in question is now 21 years old, we have tried on numerous occasions since November 2022 to contact the owners to advise we would not be renewing the site licence for 2023 as it has reached the 20-year limit on the park. However, we have had no success.
"After further discovery, the details on our system had not been altered from the owners who had sadly passed away hence why we have not made contact. We did however leave the Holiday Home in situ on the park for a 6 months grace period should the owners contact us to open a line of communication in order to resolve the situation. We have since moved the holiday home to a safe storage area ready for the owners to collect, should they get in contact with us."
The spokesperson added: "Within the industry it is standard practice that owners with other holiday park operators enjoy ownership with an age limit between 10 and 15 years, here at Lyons Holiday Parks we do offer a 20-year age limit which gives peace of mind to our values customers.
"We are a family run holiday operator which is nearly 100 years old, of which we most definitely would not remove a holiday home without good reason."
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