Can I live in a static caravan on the countryside?

lincroft1710

£35K sounds like the price for a holiday caravan on a holiday site with a licence to remain there for x number of years. Maximum occupation would be 11 months of the year, possibly only 7 months. Annual site rent would be several thousand pounds. Electricity and gas will be extra.

Not ideal for your purpose

p00hsticks

This sort of thing ?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64431650.html

It's worth looking down the listing at all the charges, restrictions, ruels and regulations that are imposed

chappers

societys_child wrote: »

Hmm, I know what they are, have you lived in one through the winter?

Yep two winters and it was a crap one at that, which was indeed freezing and damp, and the roof leaked it was about 20 years old in 1989 when I lived in it.

Some of these modern ones do actually have better u-values than my Victorian house.

ProDave

p00hsticks wrote: »

This sort of thing ?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64431650.html

It's worth looking down the listing at all the charges, restrictions, ruels and regulations that are imposed

LPG bottles central heating.

At about £70 for a 47Kg refill, expect to use up to 4 of them in a month in a cold winter, so up to almost £300 per month for winter heating. (I know from experience how much they leak heat and how expensive bottled LPG is)

£125 per month site rent plus water and electricity.

Note condition 12. This site is for over 50's only

lincroft1710

p00hsticks wrote: »

This sort of thing ?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64431650.html

That's cheap for a sited park home, but it is an old one which has been refurbished and it is on a site in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens.

aneary

The fact that I've seen them being taken on lorries down the A3 in half (new ones not sure how they put the two halves together) means I wouldn't live in one. Anything that can be moved that quickly should not be a home.

lincroft1710

aneary wrote: »

The fact that I've seen them being taken on lorries down the A3 in half (new ones not sure how they put the two halves together) means I wouldn't live in one. Anything that can be moved that quickly should not be a home.

Mobile/Park homes have been built in this way for over 55 years. When sited and connected to mains services with a brick skirt between the ground and bottom of the home, they are not easily moved.

t0rt0ise

lincroft1710 wrote: »

That's cheap for a sited park home, but it is an old one which has been refurbished and it is on a site in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens.

It's also only for the over 55s.

lincroft1710

2 for sale in Newborough, you can't get much more rural, near Peterborough.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-68623949.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-68947613.html

parking_question_chap

hussnainh8 wrote: »

Hi,

I am 20 years old and trying to think ahead of my future.. So I am currently living with parents and I have recently bought my dream car and now I am saving up money for a few years till I am ready to move out. I have been looking at houses for sale and with todays day and age.. the house value is super high! It is gutting to know im working on a minimum pay job and that to buy a 2-3 bedroom house would cost me 150k and that I would need to get a loan of atleast 100k!! It would take a long time to pay that off and I am looking at £500 a month mortgage at least! On the other hand........... I was browsing along and saw an add on zoopla which said static caravan for sale for around £35,000. This got me thinking that I dont need any thing fancy as long as I can sleep and cook food in thats all I need and not just that but it looks so much better than the houses I have seen for a quarter of the price and you can park numerous vehicles outside which is a big bonus! its basically a house but a caravan layout? (Cant show because it wont let me post links as a new user).

My question is.. Yes I know it will be hard to live in when its cold outside etc but I can live with that.. The question is.. Can you really live in a static caravan on the countryside? I mean I have seen other caravans which come with pitch fees but this doesn't seem like it says anything about fees? It does say it is a private area so does that mean I would own the land my caravan is on as well or what? How does it work? I just wanted to know if it possible to live there because I wouldn't mind it at all... Lots of perks.. No mortgage problems.. no neighbors.. close by to city centre so thats no problem too as I drive and love driving... I dont want people telling me things like what are you doing with your life etc.. I am quite happy living there (personal taste) So is it possible or will I buy the place and then the government will come along and tell me to move ? :rotfl:

Thank you to any one who replies!

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