PLOT holders at a holiday park claim they are being forced into selling by the new owners.

Countrywide Park Homes took over Waterside Holiday Park in Main Road, St Lawrence in December.

It wants to buy freehold plots to tidy up the site.

But one freehold plot owner said: “There are caravans smashed all over the freehold area and fences put up.

“Some owners have been approached by other owners to ‘help’ us make good deals.”

Another plot holder said: “I just don’t know what to do for the best about this terrible situation.

“The site looks like a scrapyard with a 6ft fence around all the freeholders blocking our lovely views.

“Caravans have been dumped in front of us then smashed to pieces.”

The park includes some freehold plots belonging to individuals, some land in between and some plots rented by the company.

It is alleged the land in between has become a dumping ground making it unpleasant for remaining freeholders.

Lawyer Lewis Griffiths, representing the company, said some of the freeholder plots “are in a disgraceful state of repair and condition”.

He said the owners want the park tidy and “the only way to achieve that is to buy the various freeholder plots”.

He said freehold owners were being given options, all of which involved selling, but denied the new owners or representatives were trying to force the sales through.