Enforcement action is to be taken against a caravan park in Manorbier after it failed to deliver on an affordable homes element of a successfully appealed planning application.

At the April 22 meeting of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority’s development management committee, members were asked to support enforcement actions against Ridgeway Resort [formerly known as Buttyland Caravan and Camping Park] on Station Road, for non-compliance of legal agreements connected to a scheme which included affordable housing, along with a failure to respond to a requisition for information.

Back in 2021, the Planning Inspectorate Wales overturned Pembrokeshire Coast National Park’s 2020 refusal of an application at Buttyland Caravan and Camping Park, Manorbier, which included outline planning for 14 affordable units, full planning for upgrading the existing caravan park from 85 temporary pitches to 85 year-round static caravans, and full planning for a new sewage pumping station.

A report for members at the April 22, 2026 meeting said the final permission was subject to a long string of conditions including the transfer of land to the local housing authority or registered social landlord for the provision of the affordable housing element of the proposal.

One of those conditions was the transfer of the affordable housing land within 30 days of the commencement of development to the local housing authority or a registered social landlord.

Another was the provision of the caravan site and associated infrastructure, not being allowed nor any caravan to be occupied unless the transfer has been completed.

The report said that, back in May 2023, Park officers raised concerns over the pre-commencement conditions, adding the owner “had suggested that there had been issues in negotiating a transfer with one registered social landlord”.

It added: “Following this letter a number of applications to discharge pre-commencement conditions were received by the Authority, however the full information necessary to determine these applications was not received until June and August 2025, following further requests for information.”

A further site visit took place in 2024, with no transfer of the affordable housing land having taken place, the owner telling officers on site that he believed he had transferred the land to the National Park, which had not happened.

It was stressed that, as static caravans had been placed on site there was an urgent and immediate need for the transfer of this land to take place amongst other matters, the report said, adding site visits in May 2025 demonstrated that 17 caravans had been installed at the site, with 16 occupied and one acting as a showroom.

The report concluded: “This situation is particularly significant as the permission granted was based on the provision of affordable housing as a critical element of the overall permission.”

At the meeting, members heard that, after the report was commissioned, officers had been contacted by a legal representative of Ridgeway, asking for the matter to not be proceeded with, saying good progress had been made.

Members heard from officers there were still “fundamental breaches,” especially around the delivery of the affordable housing.

Members agreed to the enforcement action, with officers given delegated powers to instruct solicitors to start injunction proceedings in relation to the ongoing issues with the legal agreement.

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