P-06-1521 Give park home residents in Wales the right to a water meter

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This petition was submitted by Sam Swash, having collected 447 signatures online and 173 signatures on paper, making for a total of 620 signatures.

Text of petition:

Residents of some park home sites in Wales are paying in excess of £60 a month in water bills, despite living in small single and double units. Currently, many site owners divide their total bill by the number of homes on the park, before passing the bill on to residents. This means there is no incentive for site owners to fix leaks, as they know residents will foot the bill regardless.

The Welsh Government could stop this injustice by giving park home residents the right to a water meter.

Additional information:

Providing park home residents with the right to have a water meter fitted so that they are only charged for their individual usage would mirror the situation for the majority of homeowners across the country.

Doing so would ensure that park home residents only pay for what they use, ending the current injustice whereby many are being charged for leaks which are not their responsibility.

It would also genuinely make maintaining pipes and repairing leaks the responsibility of the site owner (as it should be), encouraging them to carry out repairs and upgrades.

In turn, this would reduce the environmental damage which is being caused by huge amounts of water being leaked under private park home sites in Wales.

Park home residents at one site in Flintshire, North Wales, have been getting charged more than £65 a month for water by their site owner, when evidence suggests they should be paying around £16 a month. This injustice must be stopped.

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Alyn and Deeside
• North Wales

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