Mobile Homes Act 1983 - pitch fee uprating: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1 Research by the University of York in 2007 identified 92 residential mobile home parks in Scotland and more than 4000 mobile homes. Sites were concentrated in six local authority areas: Perth and Kinross, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Angus, Argyll and Bute, and Aberdeen. Mobile homes can be a popular option for those downsizing in retirement. Some sites are actively marketed as retirement communities, including a minimum age limit for residents

2 Over the period from January 1989 to April 2023, the RPI has been just under 1 percentage point higher on average than the CPI. Over the past two years, as inflation has accelerated, this gap has been higher at around two to three percentage points.

3 As set out in footnote 2, while the gap has been around 2-3 percentage points over the last two years, the long-run difference is a little under one percentage point.

4 Research by the University of York in 2007 found that residents of caravans and mobile homes in Scotland were more likely to be older than the general population.