council planning probs

Bradani

i own a small exempted caravan site just 1 acre, i hold a licence from the camping and carravanning club, it allows any unit to stay up to 28days consecutively. in theory u can go off for one night and return fo another 28days. although no u cant asdthen u find u r in breach of the council rules. it seams the biggest problem which is unique to my little site is that it has no house attached to it , this would be the owners primary address,the council planning officer let slip that she cannott understand why we have a l.icence as it is not usual to be granted one on just land, as the council would formally object, the site has been a club site since 2003, i paid £40,000 for it 2 years ago',so due to this and other problems ie neighbours, the camping and carravanning club r considering revoking the licence, leaving me with a 1 acre field, have i then got any way of recouping the shortfall if i sold it from the council??

ILW

Bradani wrote: »

i own a small exempted caravan site just 1 acre, i hold a licence from the camping and carravanning club, it allows any unit to stay up to 28days consecutively. in theory u can go off for one night and return fo another 28days. although no u cant asdthen u find u r in breach of the council rules. it seams the biggest problem which is unique to my little site is that it has no house attached to it , this would be the owners primary address,the council planning officer let slip that she cannott understand why we have a l.icence as it is not usual to be granted one on just land, as the council would formally object, the site has been a club site since 2003, i paid £40,000 for it 2 years ago',so due to this and other problems ie neighbours, the camping and carravanning club r considering revoking the licence, leaving me with a 1 acre field, have i then got any way of recouping the shortfall if i sold it from the council??

Not sure what you are asking.

Tixy

Your post is very difficult to read with no sentences, no paragraphs and with text abbreviations. And in the wrong section of the forum - as it does not appear to be about loans at all.

I would re-write and repost in possibly 'consumer rights' or 'in my home' - which does have some planning permission threads in it.

[Deleted User]

ILW wrote: »

Not sure what you are asking.

Me neither, but I'm going to go with a 'No' anyway. It's generally the correct answer.

KingElvis

We tried camping last year, it was neither cheap nor very good...in fact, it was rubbish. Damp, flies, no where to wash properly, impossible to prepare lobster properly etc etc. I'm going for a no too.

No idea what you're on about though.

chalkie99

As above, you have posted this in the wrong section but, it seems, you bought a field for £40,000 two years ago which was listed by the Caravan Club but did not, necessarily have planning permission.

Did you use a solicitor to check what you were buying?

If you have any claim at all it would be against the people you bought the land from if they made false claims about the planning permission granted. However, it was your responsibility to check everything. There is no way you have a claim against the council unless they specifically told you that the land had planning permission.

Hope this isn't tied up with the mysterious loan on your other thread because if you have used a personal loan for abusiness purchase you are in deeper doo doo.

nomoneytoday

Did you employ an appropriate solicitor and surveyor when purchasing?
Was the permission checked as part of the due diligence?

LovelyLeeds

KingElvis wrote: »

We tried camping last year, it was neither cheap nor very good...in fact, it was rubbish. Damp, flies, no where to wash properly, impossible to prepare lobster properly etc etc. I'm going for a no too.

Ha ha, your posts always make me chuckle! :T

27col

OP, I am sending you some capital letters and a few paragraphs, to put into your computer as it does not seem to have any, going by your post.

antrobus

Bradani wrote: »

i own a small exempted caravan site just 1 acre,....

I believe that the answer is here;
Exempted camp sites

http://www.threeriversclub.org.uk/exempted_camp_sites.html

or

Running a Certificated Site

http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/ukcampsites/smallsites/runasite/


It appears that "under the First Schedule of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act (1960), paragraph 4, 5 & 6 and section 296 of the Public Health Act (1936)" an "exempted organisation" can certify a caravan and camping site so that it can operate without having to obtain planning permission or a site licence.

I'd therefore presume that the OP bought a field for £40k which was certified by The Camping and Caravanning Club (an exempted organisation) but that the Club are now considering withdrawing certification at which point the OP will left with an acre of land that is worth a good deal less than 40k and no business.

What the council planning officer has got to do with this, I don't know. Perhaps she doesn't know how to use Google and type in the words 'exempted caravan site'. (But then again, maybe the OP misunderstood, and the CPO was actually saying 'we're not going to grant you planning permission'.) But since it appears that exempted caravan sites have got sod all to do with the local council in the first place, getting compensation from them for the loss of certification would seem to be unlikely.

(God Gave Us Google For A Reason.)