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Quote: Originally posted by iank01 on 10/12/2024

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We lived on the same site for 2 1/2 years in our touring caravan and used my father's address for correspondence. We had to move off from end of Nov until end of Feb. No major issues. The chances of the council checking to see if you are residential are probably zero!

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 10/12/2024

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Quote: Originally posted by iank01 on 10/12/2024

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We lived on the same site for 2 1/2 years in our touring caravan and used my father's address for correspondence. We had to move off from end of Nov until end of Feb. No major issues. The chances of the council checking to see if you are residential are probably zero!

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Probably true about the council, but I think the most likely thing would be someone reporting you if you were badly behaved. Seasonal campers would be the ones to notice. Keep the area around the caravan tidy and don't hold wild noisy parties until the early hours and nobody would say anything.

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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 10/12/2024

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I've been on sites where there have been disgruntled 'mumblings' amongst the touring campers about people quite obviously 'living' on the site, bearing in mind 'tourers' are limited to 21 day or 28 day stays, which is a limitation to some peoples ideal plans! I've used a rally field which was supposed to be exclusively for our group, but we found a permanent resident encamped there, and what annoyed us most, using one of a limited number of EHU posts which were meant to be part of our package and we were paying for!

Council may be a limited risk, but I've stayed on a CCC CS site as a rally group, they had been 'flexible' about our numbers and units on previous stays but the last time they had to stick to the rules as had been visited by the club on a routine inspection and obviously had a shot fired across their bows about something other than our group, but were now obeying the rules for their own business wellbeing! Sites do come under some routine scrutiny occasionally.

Breaking the rules is not entirely without risk, you may find you are displaced at short notice if a complaint raised. That rather implies that you need to keep your van and set up fit and ready to relocate within maybe a day or so, that becomes more challenging the longer you've been pitched, as things like tyres may no longer be roadworthy, brakes seized etc., and we all acquire more 'stuff' and sprawl even with extended holiday stays! Even being just a holiday maker, and pretty tidy and organised, I find the day before departure largely occupied by the 'pack up' ready to tow the next day, clearing up a residential set up doesn't bear thinking about unless you live a VERY simple minimalistic lifestyle!

Even if you escape any 'official' interventions, the 'site' may become uncomfortable at the risk if 'mumblings' reach their ears, and they feel moving you on is in their best interests. You have to bear in mind, you will not be putting an awful lot of money their way, they risk losing an awful lot more if sanctioned in a number of ways!

Not saying don't do it, just need to keep in mind that there are risks and displacement at short notice may be the result. You won't really have any 'rights' to fight your case! Probably best to keep your set up looking anything but a residential arrangement, and not draw undue attention to yourself.

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