{"id":181026,"date":"2025-09-30T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181026\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:15:10","slug":"terminally-ill-caravan-park-resident-allowed-to-list-her-home-for-sale-supreme-court-rules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181026\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminally ill caravan park resident allowed to list her home for sale, Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

A terminally ill resident of a caravan park in northern Tasmania has been granted an order from the Supreme Court allowing her to list her home for sale.<\/p>\n

Roslyn Grima has lived at the Beauty Point Tourist Park since purchasing a home there in 2012.<\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with stage four cancer in June, with her doctor telling her she may only have a few months to live.<\/p>\n

To fund treatment and her funeral, Ms Grima now wants to sell her place.<\/p>\n

But the caravan park has denied her permission to do so<\/a>, saying that when residents leave the park, they must remove their home from the site.<\/p>\n

\"Roslyn<\/p>\n

Ms Grima has been told that if she wants to leave, she needs to take her home with her and leave the site empty. (ABC News: Ashleigh Barraclough)<\/p>\n

\"Residences<\/p>\n

The Beauty Point Tourist Park is home to around 60 residents. (ABC News: Morgan Timms)<\/p>\n

Supreme Court Associate Justice Michael Daly has ordered an expedited trial, due to Ms Grima’s illness, to consider whether she should be allowed to sell her home.<\/p>\n

Ms Grima’s legal team sought an interim order from the court to allow her to list her home for sale to give her time to find a buyer ahead of the trial, which the judge granted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The order does not allow Ms Grima to complete a sale at this stage.<\/p>\n

Ms Grima’s lawyer is arguing the park breached its contract, saying the park rules afforded residents certain freedoms.<\/p>\n

“There has been a unilateral attempt to limit those freedoms,” lawyer Ashleigh Best told the court.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Lawyer Fabiano Cangelosi says the rules are clear \u2014 a resident must restore their site to vacant when they leave. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the caravan park’s lawyer Fabiano Cangelosi accused the plaintiff of applying the park rules except “where they are inconvenient”.<\/p>\n

Caravan park not approved for residential use, council says<\/p>\n

The caravan park has banned on-site sales since February last year following compliance concerns from the West Tamar Council.<\/p>\n

When Ms Grima asked the park for permission to sell her home in June this year, the park declined the request, citing an enforcement notice from the council.<\/p>\n

Terminally ill caravan park resident told she can’t sell her home<\/a><\/p>\n

Residents at a seaside caravan park in northern Tasmania own their own homes, but the park is no longer allowing on-site sales.<\/p>\n

The notice states the park is approved for visitor accommodation, not residential use.<\/p>\n

The council said its notice did not require current residents to leave.<\/p>\n

The park has said residents can sell their homes if they are removed from its property, but Ms Grima testified her home was not movable.<\/p>\n

“There’s a mobile caravan and removable annexe fallacy,” Dr Best told the court.<\/p>\n

“In reality, it’s fixed to the ground.”<\/p>\n

Park director Joshua Manticas told the court he believed Ms Grima’s home was movable.<\/p>\n

Dr Best made the case that Ms Grima should be able to sell her home to someone who wishes to use it as visitor accommodation, as the council enforcement notice “doesn’t limit holiday use of the site”.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the Beauty Point Tourist Park disagreed, saying this would lead to an outcome whereby the park falls foul of the notice.<\/p>\n

“The plaintiff cannot condition the sale,” Mr Cangelosi said.Dispute over whether sales are allowed<\/p>\n

Ms Grima’s lawyers argued the park rules, which came into force in 2019, inferred that residents were allowed to sell their homes.<\/p>\n

The rules state that when a resident wishes to sell their home, the park has the right to approve the proposed new resident and levy an administration fee to cover transfer costs.<\/p>\n

Dr Best said these terms implied “cabins could be sold”.<\/p>\n

\"Aerial<\/p>\n

Many of the sites at the tourist park have permanent structures built onto them. (Facebook: Beauty Point Tourist Park\u00a0)<\/p>\n

But the caravan park’s lawyers pointed to another clause in the rules, which states that when a resident leaves the park, the site must be restored to vacant land unless management agreed otherwise.<\/p>\n

“The 2019 rules could not be any clearer that the site must be restored to vacant,” Mr Cangelosi told the court.<\/p>\n

He said there was no evidence of an agreement between the park and Ms Grima that “she would be able to sell her home on-site”.<\/p>\n

A trial will take place in Hobart at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A terminally ill resident of a caravan park in northern Tasmania has been granted an order from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5424,78247,78246,116015,43,1194,44,321,16570,40555,116254,68815,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-181026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-beauty","tag-beauty-point","tag-caravan-park","tag-caravans","tag-headlines","tag-homes","tag-news","tag-point","tag-regulation","tag-residents","tag-roslyn-grima","tag-sell","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}