AN elderly couple are among caravan park residents who were forced to leave their homes which they say they’d been obliviously living in illegally for two decades.
Doug Davis, 73, and partner Pam Donovan, 77, paid council tax on the standard motor home at Porthkerry leisure park near Barry for 21 years.
But during the first coronavirus lockdown in the summer of 2020, the Welsh Government asked the caravan owners to leave the site and return to their homes.
It was then realised about 40 people had been living on the site for 10 months of the year in caravans only permitted for second home use.
The site is now under the new ownership of Vale Holiday Parks who took it over this year on the provision that ex-owner Phil Edwards would end the issue of residents living there permanently.