EU laws on holiday chalet parks

PasturesNew

If the park is holiday use only, your license to occupy that you signed means you agreed to the rules of that park. Additionally, UK planning laws mean there's different planning permission for residential use and for holiday park use.

You cannot move into a holiday caravan/chalet and live there as your main residence.

Also, most "holiday use" caravans/chalets are of an inferior insulation level than those built for residential use, so it'd break building regs use.

If people started living in cheapo holiday homes, it'd turn them into p1key ghettos.

Stop whining. The agreement was signed, for holiday use. Tough.

greenface

PasturesNew wrote: »

If the park is holiday use only, your license to occupy that you signed means you agreed to the rules of that park. Additionally, UK planning laws mean there's different planning permission for residential use and for holiday park use.

You cannot move into a holiday caravan/chalet and live there as your main residence.

Also, most "holiday use" caravans/chalets are of an inferior insulation level than those built for residential use, so it'd break building regs use.

If people started living in cheapo holiday homes, it'd turn them into p1key ghettos.

Stop whining. The agreement was signed, for holiday use. Tough.

your post seems too general and different from what i know as fact.

Think there are different laws regarding static caravans and chalets also. My parents currently live on a holiday home(in a static) as there main and only residence ground fees around £2.5k per year paid for from housing benefits they are entitled to. The park is closes for 6weeks mid jan to 1st week march for maintainence (they go to tunisia for the winter)others go to relatives. They have a post house and registered this address with all banks doctors etc so i think you can move into a holiday home as your main residence. I own a static caravan on a site in North Wales its name is called a holiday park there are about 200+ statics and over 100+ chalets (poss more) statics have a 10 year lease and connot be sub-let and used only by owners and friends and family . Chalets have up to 1000 year lease and are bought and sold through estate agents etc. They pay a council tax of around £800 per years ( statics pay nil) but there rates ate around £800 per year cheaper You can be a owner occupier and stay there as your permanent residence and register it with banks doctors etc as you only home they have their bin emptied every 2 weeks. Their post goes into the office and individual pigeon holes for you to pick up. Im not sure how council tax works in a static if its the main address never asked anyone that "lives there" but this site also closes for 6 weeks people on the north wales holiday home are entitled to discounts on their tax of up to 50% set by the council not the site . So to sum up this long post you can live there as your permenant residence but they are not "residential sites"
Both Holiday homes contract does not say you cannot live there it says you cannot sleep there overnight for the six weeks they close ( nothing saying the six weeks daytime it is closed) I go to my parents while there away in tunisia to check up-make a brew-walk the dog-use the loo-check the mail etc

greenface

both holiday homes have been around since the early 70s and no p1keys here yet . If you say that again i will get my pit bull from the back of me van and stick you in the new road were diggin with the help from me wivves

planning_officer

Different caravan sites will have different uses, in planning terms (like Pastures New says above). Some will undoubtedly be residential sites, where people can live all year round, and others will be holiday parks, where planning conditions restrict occupation to so many months of the year (or restrict occupation during the winter etc), to ensure that the homes are occupied on a seasonal basis only. Different local authorities have different planning policies regarding such sites - often, if they are trying to encourage tourism, then such parks will be required to close for several weeks per year.

I'm not such which EU laws the OP is referring to (perhaps the Human Rights Act? - right to a home etc). However, EU laws will make no difference whatsoever to the planning status of holiday parks (you can't just claim that you can live there all year round, if planning conditions forbid this), as it is generally held that the planning system satisfies the Human Rights Act.

Grichardallen

Hi all, our site is in the situation of where chalets pay council tax £800 as said before and caravans dont. I do know the site has an all year licence granted from the council so I got the council last year to look into it,When they got back to me after looking in to it they said they could not do anything as it is the way the site wants to run their buisiness.

Shurely by law they should atleast permitt daily access, what if my roof comes off? they be water pooring in as I wright this post and I will not know untill Jan 31st.. ie. interior decor ruiend!!!

Also they are fit for alyear round usage as they is a residential park a couple of miles away with the same chalets on which is open all year!! But they b no chance of me ever buying a lease hold.

greenas_grass

I live in a freehold chalet with 8 months occupation i have no permanent home in uk can i use this as a permanent address as in the eu they dont have these planning laws as we are in the eu and are bound by their laws why does this one not apply here

greenface

If your chalet is freehold who says you can only stay there for 8 month and is it in the uk.But even if you cannot stay there it may be possible to have post doctors banks etc as a permanent address please give more info . You own the land its on is it part of more chalets etc