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12/5/2024 at 2:22pm
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What are you actually looking for?
Somewhere as a permanent residential address?
Somewhere to site a static caravan permanently?
Somewhere to site a tourer permanently?
For the last 2, the answer will be no - no leisure camp or caravan site will commit themselves to giving you a permanent pitch. You can get static lease agreements for as long as 30 years (from new), but not permanent. The majority are 10 or 15 years (from new).
I have on rare occasions seen adverts for freehold pitches on holiday sites, where you can put your own static, presumably on a permanent basis - but you will still have no control over access, fees, or terms.
For the 1st, you need a properly licensed residential site, which will be a permanent site and you will be expected to live there.
As said, without knowing what you are looking for, difficult to give much of an answer.
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13/5/2024 at 11:39am
Location: East Herts
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Plenty of people do live in tourers, and motorhomes, but you do have to be prepared to move around quite a bit I believe.
All sites need a licence to operate, and residential sites have to be licenced as such, but these do not permit tourers. All the other sites are licenced just for "holiday use", which means they cannot allow people to live there. As 22seaside says, "It is perfectly legal to live in a tourer, the problem is always the land underneath it", i.e. the site. Living in a tourer is no problem, finding somewhere to put it can be. Nowhere is technically legal, so you have to be very flexible.
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13/5/2024 at 12:25pm
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Adding to what has been said, sites are licenced to operate by the local authority, and do get inspected from time to time, if found breaching their terms of operating licence they risk being shut down! The terms of licences vary depending on the designation of site, touring sites can only allow anyone to stay for up to 28 days before moving on, etc., it's done SPECIFICALLY to prevent permanent residency.
People do stay permanently, and sites do breach the rules by turning a blind eye, but you should be aware that you risk having to move on at short notice in so doing. A tourer that's stood on the same spot and unmoved for many months may no longer be capable of moving without remedial work first! I know people who've 'acquired' (gifted, bargain price purchases etc.) tourers that've been standing for longer periods, and they've proved troublesome to get mobile again!
As a caravan owner, I don't think I'd have much problem actually living in my van, but siting it to do so may be more problematic!
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