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Southampton Town will go to court in an attempt to halt redevelopment work at the former Lier's Mobile Home Park, which is now owned by the luxury home building Farrell Companies.
Southampton Town will ask a Suffolk County Supreme Court justice to halt construction work at the former Lier’s Mobile Home Park in Eastport, which the town says has continued despite a stop-work order and being in violation of town and Suffolk County regulations.
The Southampton Town Board authorized the town attorney’s office last week to pursue a court injunction to halt work at the property on Old Country Road in Eastport, which is owned by the Farrell Companies.
The town issued two stop-work orders against the property in 2024, and construction at the site had reportedly been halted last winter. But Councilman Michael Iasilli said last week that work at the site had resumed in violation of the orders.
“Right now, there is a stop-work order that has been continually ignored — they’ve continued to disregard a statement from the county Department of Health that they have to get approval before they move forward, and the town has pointed out that its permits are contingent on Health Department approvals,” Iasilli said.
Town Attorney James Burke said that the town has repeatedly pointed out to Farrell, the luxury home building company, that its plans exceed Suffolk County’s density allowances per the sanitary code, and that the Town Planning Board has not issued site plan approvals for the property.
Farrell plans to ultimately install 93 new mobile homes at the dilapidated trailer park, which it purchased in 2023. The company said the trailers would be rented as workforce housing.
The proposal was met with complaints by neighbors of the potential impact on school taxes, traffic on adjoining residential streets, and even concerns about the impact of clearing the then-overgrown property on neighboring farmlands.
At the time, Leir’s had only a smattering of residents still living in trailers on the property, and Farrell said that any of those who were up to date on their leases and continued to pay their tenancy fees on time would be allowed to stay as long as they wanted.
The company’s representatives said that the original certificate of occupancy for the property allowed for 93 mobile home sites.
The company received building permits from the town for some of the sites and began constructing new concrete pads for homes on the vacant plots last fall, even before the company had filed its official application to the Planning Board. Several of the new manufactured residences were delivered to the site.
Brian DeSesa, the attorney for the Farrell Companies, did not respond to a request for comment.
Michael Wright on Oct 1, 2025