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Living on a residential mobile home site

Your rights and responsibilities on a residential mobile home site

Last updated
7 May 2026

You have the following rights and responsibilities, regardless of whether they’re included in your copy of the written statement.

These are called ‘implied terms’.

Resident obligations

As a resident, you must:

  • pay the pitch fee
  • pay fees for utilities supplied under the agreement, such as gas, electricity and water charges
  • maintain and repair your mobile home
  • keep the pitch clean and tidy

Site owner obligations

If you ask for it, the site owner must provide:

  • information and evidence about site fees
  • information and evidence about service charges
  • a copy of the site insurance certificate

Repairs, maintenance and improvements

The site owner must:

  • repair or renew the base that a mobile home sits on when necessary
  • maintain the supply of any services to the pitch or mobile home, such as gas, electricity or water
  • maintain and keep clean any areas of the site that residents are not responsible for
  • consult residents on improvements to the site

If there is a qualifying residents’ association for the site, the site owner must consult it on any decisions about operating and managing the site that affect the residents.

Qualifying residents’ association

For a residents’ association to qualify, it must meet certain criteria, including:

  • it represents the people living on the site
  • it’s independent from the site owner
  • it has enough members to cover at least 50% of the mobile homes on the site
  • decisions are made by vote, where there is one vote per mobile home

You can get advice on residents’ associations from the Scottish Confederation of Park Homes Residents Associations.

Site owner’s name and address

The site owner must give you an address where legal notices can be served. For example, where you can send a written notice to end your agreement.

If there’s a qualifying residents’ association, the site owner must give it the address as well.

Length of the agreement

The agreement will continue indefinitely unless:

  • the site owner gets a court order to end it
  • you give the site owner at least 4 weeks’ notice in writing to end it
  • the site owner cannot give you the right to occupy indefinitely, because their interest in the land is time limited
  • planning permission for the site is time limited

Refunding overpayments

If your agreement is ended, the site owner must pay you back any fees you’ve paid beyond the end of the agreement.

Gifting the mobile home

You have the right to gift your home to a family member and transfer the agreement to them. Transferring is called ‘assigning’.

The site owner cannot ask for any commission or payment. They can ask you to prove that the new resident is a member of your family.

Selling the mobile home

You have the right to:

  • market your home through an estate agent or solicitor
  • sell your home without the site owner approving the buyer
  • assign the agreement to the buyer

The site owner is entitled to receive commission, up to a maximum of 10% of the sale price.

Before the sale can take effect, you must give the buyer the following:

  • a copy of the agreement with the site owner
  • a copy of any site rules
  • your forwarding address

You must do this 28 days before the date the sale is supposed to go through.

Re-siting the mobile home

The site owner can only move your home to another pitch when they:

  • need to move it temporarily to do emergency work
  • want to move it permanently, and they have a court order allowing them to do so

In both cases, the new pitch must be similar to the existing pitch. The site owner must pay the costs of re-siting your home.

Undisturbed possession of the mobile home

You have the right to live on site without unnecessary disturbance from the site owner or manager.

Site owner access to your pitch

The site owner can enter your pitch to read meters and deliver post, between 9am and 6pm.

If they need to enter your pitch to do essential or emergency work, they should give you as much notice as they can.

If they need access for any other reason, they must give you at least 14 days’ written notice. They must tell you the date, time and reason for their visit.

The site owner must not enter your home without your permission.

Pitch fee increases

There are rules about pitch fee increases the site owner must follow:

  • there can only be one increase per year
  • you must be consulted about an increase
  • you must get at least 28 days’ notice in writing of a proposed increase
  • an increase should not be higher than the inflation rate without good reason – for example, if the facilities they provide change

From 1 April 2026, the inflation rate is tied to the consumer prices index (CPI). 

Agreeing to an increase

If you agree to the increased fee, the site owner can increase the fee on the review date.

If you do not agree, you can refer the pitch fee increase to the sheriff court so the court can decide. The fee does not change until the court has decided.

More information

Implied terms come from legislation.

You can find a copy of the implied terms in the Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 on legislation.gov.uk.

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