Age and type of house
Someone has described the park home as a PRC semi because it looks prefabricated. What should the report refuse to repeat?
It should refuse to repeat that the park home is a PRC semi. A factory-made look is not a precast concrete panel house, and a park home is not a PRC, Airey, Cornish, BISF or no-fines house. The report should describe the unit that was there: the body, and the skirt only if it was opened. Copying a house-system name from a casual remark misleads anyone who reads the form. The survey still does not read the pitch agreement.
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.
What is the fuller explanation?
PRC is a label for certain precast reinforced concrete houses, the sort that stand on a street with posts and panels. A park home is a different object, usually a chassis-based unit on a pitch. They can both look 'made in a factory' to a casual visitor. That resemblance is not an identification. If the report copies PRC onto the park home, a lender may be asked the wrong question and a repairer may look for concrete panels that are not there. The survey should say park home, describe what was visible, and stop.
Refuse the other house names as well if someone offers them because the unit is not brick. Airey, Cornish, BISF and no-fines are house systems, not nicknames for anything prefabricated. A painted corner or a metal trim does not convert this unit into those systems. And the pitch agreement remains unread: the survey does not say whether you may sell on the pitch, and it may not have seen the chassis if the skirt stayed on. Correct the construction line before it is repeated to a lender. Do not soften PRC into 'a sort of PRC'.
What should you ask your surveyor?
- Will you state the construction as a park home and explicitly not as PRC?
- Which parts were actually seen, including whether the skirt and chassis were open?
- Are you declining to use Airey, Cornish, BISF or no-fines for this unit?
What are the typical next steps?
- Correct anyone who calls the park home a PRC semi.
- Do not write those initials on a lender form.
- Keep the pitch agreement with your solicitor, outside the survey.
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Also asked about this
What if the seller's advert says PRC?
The report should still refuse to repeat it. An advert is not an identification, and a park home is not that house type.
Does a steel chassis make it a BISF house?
No. BISF is a house system. A park-home chassis is not that frame, and it may not even have been seen if the skirt stayed on.