Residents Plan Strategy Meeting to Stop Proposed Trailer Park

Headley residents will meet Saturday to strategize on how to prevent a 56-pad trailer park from coming within feet of their neighborhood.

David Wagner, a Headley Community Homeowners Association board member who organized the meeting, said residents of Newtown Walk will also be attending the meeting. 

The proposal to put a trailer park on the tract that is currently the Newtown Swim Club has generated opposition from surrounding communities. Headley abuts the swim club property; Newtown Walk is just down the road.

Swim Club owner David Platt is working with County Builders to create a residential development on the 16-acre property on Newtown-Yardley Road once the club closes after this summer

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The plans for the mobile home park will likely come before the Newtown Township Planning Commission on Feb. 5. The Planning Commission, an advisory board, meets at 7:30 p.m. at the township Administration Building. 

Township solicitor Jeffrey Garton said it is not yet known if the applicant is seeking any waivers or variances from the township. However, he added, a mobile home park is a “right by use” on that property – meaning the applicant would not have to appear before the township’s Zoning Hearing Board.

The application for a mobile home park was submitted after the Newtown Township Board of Supervisors shot down a plan for townhomes because it exceeded the housing density permitted in that zoning district.

Related links:

• Trailer Park Plans Likely to be Reviewed by Township at Feb. 5 Meeting
• Neighbors Mobilizing Against Mobile Home Park
• Community Reacts to Mobile Home Proposal