Victory Leisure Homes has unveiled its first concept for a new range of holiday homes – Evolution by Victory – which it says will cut energy costs in half and take holiday parks one step closer to off-grid status. The first prototype model will be previewed at the Great Holiday Home Show on 8th –...
Willerby, holiday homes designer and manufacturer, has announced it has pioneered an all-electric specification enabling its models to be powered solely by electricity on the majority of UK holiday parks in what the company is calling ‘a green game-changer for the holiday home industry.’ The new Willerby All-E specification will be unveiled for the first...
The Home Office has published updated guidance for small accommodation businesses to help ensure compliance with fire safety legislation and make premises safe from fire*. The ‘Making your small paying guest accommodation safe from fire’ guide replaces the previous ‘Do you have paying guests?’ guide. This guidance will come into effect on 1 October 2023....
Holiday home and lodge manufacturer, Willerby, has staged a high-profile London showcase, inviting people living and working in London to embrace the many benefits of holiday caravan and lodge ownership. Willerby partnered with park operator Park Holidays UK to hold the event in the heart of the capital. With the tagline “Escape London, own your...
The 2023/24 Tourism Awards are now open and tourism and hospitality businesses from the South West and South East are invited to enter. Businesses in Bristol, Bath and Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must enter in their county schemes and those in the South East into the Beautiful South Awards. The...
The Welsh government is to press ahead with plans for a visitor levy on tourists who stay in the country overnight in commercially-let visitor accommodation. Legislation allowing local authorities to introduce a levy will be put to the Senedd, the Welsh parliament, within this government’s term. More than a thousand responses were received to a...
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is consulting on a change to permitted development rights in England to include the introduction of a “new permitted development right which will allow the temporary use of land for recreational campsites. This right would allow for the placing of tents on land and the provision...
The Welsh Government is developing a statutory license scheme of all holiday accommodation in Wales and has launched a consultation with responses to be submitted by 17 March. This is part of a package of measures to address the negative impact second home and short-term holiday lets can have on the availability and affordability of housing for...
Government says this will provide certainty to pubs, breweries and distilleries facing tough challenges. End date aligns with new simpler alcohol tax system taking effect, with Chancellor reserving decision on future duty rates for Spring Budget 2023. In a statement to the House of Commons on 19 December, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury James Cartlidge...
The CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index continued its strong upward trend during November 2022 to reach record inflation of 21.5%. This, it says, marks a tenth consecutive month of double-digit inflation, and the first time in the history of the Index that inflation has exceeded 20%. “All categories of the Index recorded double-digit inflation, and...