What the call for evidence asked
The call for evidence asked for views on the commission charged when a park home changes hands: what it is supposed to cover, whether the current arrangement still serves that purpose, and what would change if the rate or the mechanism were altered. It asked respondents — site owners, residents, trade bodies and advice services among them — to submit evidence: figures, examples, and the reasoning behind any position taken.
It did not ask a single yes-or-no question. It set out the commission as it currently operates and invited argument, from any direction, for keeping it, changing it or removing it.
When it opened and closed
The call for evidence ran from 5 March to 29 May 2026. A reader checking a document dated outside that window should treat it as a separate consultation.
What the government said about the rate
The government's own published document records that no clear or agreed rationale for the commission has been provided. That is a statement about the evidence gathered: the call for evidence closed without the government setting out a replacement figure or a timetable for one.
No clear or agreed rationale for the commission has been provided.
A resident or prospective buyer reading that sentence should take it for what it is: a government record that the justification for the payment has not been settled. Anyone acting on the commission as it stands today should check whether the government has published a response or a change to the rate since 29 May 2026, because a call for evidence closing is not the same as a decision being made.
What a response needed to include
A submission to a call for evidence of this kind is judged on what it can show. A response addressing the commission needed to set out:
- The actual costs or benefits experienced, with figures.
- Who bears the commission in practice, and at what point in a sale it is paid.
- Any alternative arrangement proposed, with the reasoning for why it would work better than the current one.
- Evidence drawn from real transactions.
Where a reader wants to follow what, if anything, the government does next with this evidence, the place to check is the policy updates kept on this site, which record changes to the law and the figures that follow from them as they are published.