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via mobile 15/12/2020 at 1:10pm
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Hello,

I was wondering if there is anyone here living or thinking living in a caravan without the appropiate driving licence?

I am thinking about buying a caravan and renting a permanent pitch for it.

I am trying to get my licence sorted, but because all this craziness going on I have to wait months and I really would like to move already.

Any replies welcome.

Thank you


15/12/2020 at 3:03pm
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I can offer no direct experience based advice, though many years as a Parish Councillor has left me with a modicum of knowledge on doing what you are considering.
Legally, from local authority rules, you would have to move the van off any rented pitch, after 28 days. If that pitch was on a licensed site or one holding LA exemption, you could return after that initial 28 days, but not if just say on a willing farm's a field. In that case it is 28 days limit a year for that property.
Without being able to drive that looks challenging if not impossible.
Even if you could drive, the weight caravan and car involved is restricted unless you also took the B+E driving licence.


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Thank you for your reply. I am aware of the regulations, I intend to rent a pitch on a licensed caravan site. Theoretical I could always hire someone to move it for me twice a month.


15/12/2020 at 4:32pm
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Just rent a seasonal pitch for say 11 months of the year then you don't have to keep moving.


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16/12/2020 at 7:01am
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Most sites that have seasonal pitches don’t actually allow customers to live permanently in the caravan the whole season. Peter needs to get creative here. Some sites will bend the rules so he needs to go around & chat to site owners. Otherwise a max 28 days is allowed so he could get caravan moved around local sites on that basis.

It depends where he wants to live. If it is a tourist area with a good choice of local sites some of which stay open year round his goal will be more easily achieved. If he dosen’t have a driving licence then he will have to find somebody to move it obviously.

At commercial pitch rates none of this will be that cheap so he would be better off trying to find a farmer perhaps he could do a deal with. It will be against planning laws so the local council need not to find out.

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via mobile 16/12/2020 at 7:58am
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Friend of ours, son lives on a seasonal site, but is only for 10 months season. Every December & January he comes home to live with mum. He does not have to move the caravan at all, stays on the pitch permanent. He does have to pay the site lump sum, up front each year.

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Thanks for replying. I am not tied to a location really. I do have some preferences like Gloucestershire, Somerset or South Wales.

But to be honest at the moment I would go pretty much anywhere where they would let me stay just to get rid of the 4 walls and paying high rent on a house which I don't own and can't really do anything to/with the property.


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That's what I am looking for. It would be just for a season most likely. Could you tell me whereabouts is the site?

Thanks


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Why would you need a driving licence to live in a caravan? To drive it on and off site yes but not to live in it,no.

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It'll be more about the moving it every 28 days.

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16/12/2020 at 3:14pm
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We lived permanently in our caravan for 2 1/2 years on a site in Worcestershire. The only time we moved was at the end of the year as the park closed for 2 months. No issue.


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The caravaning and motorhome club says you don't have to move the caravan itself, you just have to vacate it for 2 nights


via mobile 17/12/2020 at 5:33pm
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I’d look into a static caravan rather than a tourer. Lots of sites about, plus way more space than a tourer, more facilities and you don’t have to empty the loo!

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17/12/2020 at 6:11pm
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Consider a site warden job and then you could stay all season and get paid for it.....

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18/12/2020 at 8:59am
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Quote: Originally posted by gazmister123 on 17/12/2020
I’d look into a static caravan rather than a tourer. Lots of sites about, plus way more space than a tourer, more facilities and you don’t have to empty the loo!



That may be true, but a static is a money loser from day one. Many sites state that the static has to be replaced after 10 years and you are then very lucky to get £5k for a caravan that cost you £40k 10 years earlier. Not many people can afford chuck away £35k every 10 years!
You are also subject to the whim of the park owner and have to pay escalating annual fees every year and that is on top of electric, water and gas charges. With a caravan you can hook up and move to another site but not with a static.


24/12/2020 at 7:18am
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True, however some sites don’t have an age limit, my mum lives at one in tewkesbury, she started off with an older one (20 years old) which was inexpensive to buy (certainly not 40k) but upgraded this year, with no pressure to do so from the park owners who are re selling the old one and keeping it on the same plot,
yes they do lose money but are far more luxurious to live in than a tourer, she pays an annual fee of around £2700 a year which includes water, her electric is charged as per the metre and she has to pay for gas bottles which you would have to with a tourer anyway, I couldn’t imagine her living in a tourer as her static is bigger than some flats , she has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a huge kitchen, living room with another sofa bed and a big shed with washing machine and tumble dryer,

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