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23/3/2024 at 9:47pm
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Sorry to hear about your situation.
Your biggest problem is going to be the pitch - seasonal pitches can be hard to come by, most of them close for a time during the winter, and none of them (officially)allow you to live there.
Many will turn a blind eye, and many are happy to allow people to use the van as a base when working away from home, etc, your main problem is going to be finding one.
When asking how long the open season is, how many consecutive weeks you can stay, etc - do NOT give any indication that you will actually be using it as a full time address. The site will be in breach of planning regulations if they knowingly let you do this.
Using a relative's address as your contact address for things such as driving licence, bank, insurance etc is the usual way, but think carefully about car insurance, how you will answer a question about "where is the car usually parked overnight".
If the site (or local council) has a crack down, you need to be ready to move the van - some full-time touring dwellers get round this by changing sites every 28 days or so. Obviously, the idea of a seasonal pitch is to save having to do this, so if you find one that turns a blind eye, you also need somewhere to go (without the van) during any closed period.
It IS possible - people do it, and there are already some threads on this forum about it - some people even do it through choice, not necessity.
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24/3/2024 at 10:20am
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You will need to change the address on both your driving licence and log book.
To the best of my knowledge, these addresses need only to be somewhere where you can be contacted at any time - so a relative's address will be fine.
For the insurance - maybe you can use the relative's address as your contact address, and the caravan site address as "where the vehicle will be usually parked" address - this must happen when people are working away from home, and insurers must be used to it, They just need to know so they can use the address for risk calculations.
I would also suggest that when contacting insurers, etc., your tone is of somebody having to make temporary arrangements, not a permanent situation - it may change attitudes.
I have seen elsewhere suggestions to look up a forum motorhome365, which although for full-time living motorhomers may have some suggestions that will help you.
I think that Google may be your ftiend here, as billy says above, there are plenty who are/have at some time been in the same situation, and many will have put their experiences and suggestions on line, or been asking the same questions as you.
I'll wish you good luck.
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