Council Tax - Students, static caravan

trunkmusic

Hi, I am looking in to the possibility of using a static caravan as my residence during term time, which would be about 8 months of the year. The static would be on someone else's property, and I would not be the owner of the static. The rest of the year I would likely be overseas. I also have a non term-time address in the UK (my sister's house).

I am trying to figure out if I would have to pay council tax on the static or not, but I'm a bit unclear. Any advice would be great.

Thanks.

missbiggles1

trunkmusic wrote: »

Hi, I am looking in to the possibility of using a static caravan as my residence during term time, which would be about 8 months of the year. The static would be on someone else's property, and I would not be the owner of the static. The rest of the year I would likely be overseas. I also have a non term-time address in the UK (my sister's house).

I am trying to figure out if I would have to pay council tax on the static or not, but I'm a bit unclear. Any advice would be great.

Thanks.

Full time students are exempt from paying council tax .

PasturesNew

You need planning permission to site a static caravan. Even people doing self-build who want to stick it on their plot need the PP.

You can't just stick one somewhere and live in it, even if that's going to be "part-time".

trunkmusic

I have a friend who owns a farm who is interested in helping out with providing a site and sorting planning permission, on the understanding that we'd buy one and split the cost 50/50 and he'd keep it when I finish university.

PasturesNew

As said above then - students don't pay council tax.
If you weren't a student there would be CT to pay on a static.

CIS

To be specific, it's the caravan pitch that's banded for council tax purposes but as pointed out above, if a caravan on the pitch is occupied by full time students then an exemption would apply (class N).

Craig