An elderly couple have been forced to move out of a caravan park which they’ve called home for the last 20 years.
Doug Davis, 73 and Pam Donovan, 77, had been obliviously living illegally at the Porthkerry leisure park in south Wales alongside other caravanners, not realising they were meant to have a ‘permanent home’ elsewhere.
The issue came to light during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, when the Welsh government told the site to close and asked residents to move back to their main residences.
But the government then realised around 40 people had been living on the site for 10 months a year in caravans, with some even paying council tax.
Vale Holiday Parks took over the site this year on the provision former owner Phil Edwards would end the permanent living issue.