Park Home - a good choice?

After a fairly short time of thinking about it, we decided in 2009 to buy a park home on a park in Crieff, Perthshire. It was not a difficult decision to make, these homes are very nice. Well most of the time they are.
The one we looked at was in a lovely position beside a river, very well laid out and equipped and not a bad price. So we went for it. We are still happy with the decision and it is now our only home - we sold the bricks and mortar.
For anyone who is not familiar with park homes, they are a prefabricated house of wooden construction. They arrive in two parts on the back of a lorry and are bolted together. Bricked up around the base they look like a small bungalow. They now have a very high standard of insulation and if looked after will last for decades.
The downside or the reason they sometimes have bad publicity is that they are almost always sited on a park, on a pitch, and it begins to sound (and is regarded by Councils and the law) like a caravan park. This does not detract from quality of the surroundings or lifestyle. These parks have rules that will usually mean you can enjoy a quiet, comfortable life. For people who have it as their only home, the park must be a residential park and not for holidays only. You pay a monthly rental for your pitch and this varies widely, depends on location, location and quite a few other things. We actually thought that ours was in a lovely location and we could never afford to buy a plot like this and put a house on it. We think we would have to pay the equivalent of the pitch fee for 40 years at interest free just to buy a plot, it might be bigger and have more distance to our neighbours but we find the one we have is just fine.
The other potential problem is the owners of the park who can make life very difficult for the residents. There are good and bad of course.
This blog will follow our interaction with one of the bigger operators of residential parks in the UK, Wyldecrest Homes. The site we live on was previously owned by Welch Homes but after some problems it was taken over by Wyldecrest Homes. Our life here over the last two years has been fine, there have been some things not done as they should have been and we are hoping for much better from the much bigger organisation that has taken over. We will state facts here, no unfounded accusations but simply our week by week experiences. We hope it will help anyone else trying to make the choice of moving to a park home, releasing some of the capital from their bricks and mortar and living very comfortably. It may show some of the downsides and perhaps help in knowing what to expect.