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Hi,

Got into a discussion yesterday about a problem with a neighbours driveway which had nothing to do with caravans. Anyway, the subject got round to caravans. One person said that you are only allowed to leave your caravan on the drive for a maximum of 2 days. I know a lot of newer estates don't allow you to store you caravan on the drive permanently but not every estate. There are some caravans stored permanently on drives on our estate. Does anyone know of any ruling about this '2 day rule' on all driveways, to help me fight my corner.

Cheers

If your house is rented then the landlords set the conditions. If you own your house then the conditions are set out in the deeds by covenants, but the only people who can enforce the covenant are the people who placed the covenant or their representatives. Planning laws do not come into it nor do the local authority  unless they placed a restriction within the deeds as a condition of granting the planning application. If you have a covenant on the house restricting the parking of a caravan on the land then you park it their at your own risk. However, all that can happen is that the original covenant holder can ask that you remove it and if you refuse can geta court order requiring you to remove it, be warned that if you refuse then it could get expensive as the court order will always be granted.

Whatever the covenants on the land you always have the right to park temporarily in order to load and unload, and it would be reasonable to expect that unless your van is causing an obstruction to some other third party that you would have a reasonable time to be able to do this so a van parked there for several days would never be a problem, the worst that could happen is that the covenant holder ( usually the builder but sometimes the planning authority ) would ask you to move it, something you would be intending to do in any case.

We've kept caravans and motorhomes on our drive for years, on & off, since my parents went from tenting to motorhoming in the 70s.

No-one has ever commented.

janus - interesting comment 'that you would have a reasonable time to be able to do this so a van parked there for several days would never be a problem'.....others dont agree! look at this recent and heated discussion on a similar subject...... :-{

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=8

claire:-}