A GROUP of Hampshire residents fighting to be allowed to stay in their “holiday homes” all-year-round have been given more time to prepare their case.

As revealed in the Daily Echo, the owners of chalets at Solent Breezes, Warsash, need special permission to stay on the site between January and March, when it is supposed to be closed.

Residents of six brick bungalows were granted that right last year, following others already with authorisation to breach a 1966 legal agreement, because they have lived there continuously for more than a decade.

But their applications to also be able to sell their properties with those permissions were stalled, and put before a council committee this week.

The residents were told that as well as rejecting those applications, councillors could order a review of the site and people’s right to live there all year. That could mean they are forced to leave their homes for two months every winter.

The applicants complained they were being denied the opportunity to seek legal advice, after only receiving notice of the hearing late last week.

The planning development control committee agreed the residents had not been given time to prepare their case, and deferred the matter until their next meeting on February 18.