Housing department to meet permanent residents facing notice to vacate Pinnacle Village Holiday Park
EVICTION CONCERNS
Elderly residents of Pinnacle Village Holiday Park at Wonga Beach will be able to voice their concerns about their accommodation arrangements at the park, to the state’s Housing Department this Wednesday.
Recent news of the park’s sale to a new owner put the future status of its ongoing long-term accommodation sites in doubt.
Up to 20 long-term residents could face eviction from the popular holiday park but they have to wait for another month – around the time of the sale settlement – before they find out if they can continue to live there or not.
The future arrangements of about 14 long-term sites with private owner-occupied caravans, many with their own attached hard annexes, could be changed or fees made unaffordable under the new owner and the residents might be forced to move.
They each currently pay around $190 per week in rent.
One long-term caravan and annex owner who did not want to be identified told Newsport that an official from the Housing Department will meet with the permanent residents on Wednesday.
The resident said they are anxious to find out what options, if any, are available to them for future accommodation.
But they will not be officially told by the park until October 18.
Pinnacle Village owner Darryl Tenni has previously said that while he could not divulge any details of the sale contract, he has kept the residents informed of the sale progress and what could change under the new owner – but that what happens beyond the sale will no longer be up to him.
The only official advice to the residents so far was of the pending sale contract.
“Basically, they are all supposed to be movable dwellings,” Mr Tenni said recently.
The outgoing owner also said in the past 12 months he had to evict two of the long-term residents because “they needed to be in aged care.”
He said he believed most of the existing residents faced little or no options other than aged care living.
Places in aged care especially in the far north are difficult to find, with the sector experiencing shortages of accommodation.
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