00:00About 14 years ago, Roslyn Grimer bought a home at a caravan park in northern Tasmania,
00:08nestled between the sea and the bush.
00:10It was an amazing place. I come and visited a friend actually, and within the next week
00:14I said, I'm buying one of these places.
00:16Like most homes at the Beauty Point Tourist Park, it started out as a caravan, but Miss
00:22Grimer has renovated and added rooms. Now she wants to sell her home after a devastating
00:28discovery.
00:28And all of a sudden, being on an emergency CAT scan, then a visit to the specialist in
00:35the next week and telling me that I had stage four pancreatic and liver cancer and only gave
00:41me three to six months to live.
00:44Miss Grimer wants to sell her place to fund cancer treatment, but the park says she's
00:49not allowed to.
00:50Despite being home to about 60 full-time residents, West Hamer Council says the park is only approved
00:56for visitor accommodation. It says over time, the park needs to become compliant, but current
01:02residents don't have to move.
01:04The caravan park says those who do leave must remove their homes from the property.
01:10Lawyer Vanessa Blyer has represented seven residents of the park, including Miss Grimer.
01:15She says legally, residents have the right to sell their homes if the structure was there
01:20before 2006, when different planning rules applied.
01:23It can be continued to be lived in as a home and it can be sold as a home.
01:28Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe says he empathises with Miss Grimer's situation.
01:32We don't want anyone to be in that circumstance. Prior to the election, we were drafting legislation
01:40to ensure that we gave greater rights to residents of caravan parks and that work will continue.
01:49For residents, legislation can't come soon enough.
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