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Caravan on driveway
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one of the problems about caravans / motorhomes being parked in driveways is that before long there is an electricity cable to the house and someone has moved in. fortunately where I live there are only allocated parking spaces and no driveways big enough for a caravan. a caravan did appear on an allocated space and we got the council to take it away1
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RelievedSheff said:sevenhills said:ThisIsWeird said:
In the OP's case, the HA is presumably actively running the estate on a day to day basis. And can presumably also enforce the rs. Presumably. What if the HA is not the author? I dunno.These days most estates are mixed, private/social housing. Which is the type of estate that I live on and there is a caravan in one of the gardens.It's quite a large garden, so as long as the OPs caravan doesnt massively block anyone's view, it should be ok.
The covenants here say no caravans, boats or commercial vehicles to be parked on driveways.
We queried this with the developers when we bought the property as we were looking to buy a motorhome (registered as a motor caravan). They were very clear that it was exceptionally rare for them to enforce the covenants.
We bought the motorhome and it has been happily tucked up on the driveway for a few years now with no complaints. But we are fortunate that it is tucked away out of sight and no neighbours can see it from any of their windows with how the properties are positioned, in fact we can't even see it from a window!
Several properties now have caravans and commercial vehicles as well.
In the ops case they really should consult the housing association in the first instance.0 -
lookstraightahead said:RelievedSheff said:sevenhills said:ThisIsWeird said:
In the OP's case, the HA is presumably actively running the estate on a day to day basis. And can presumably also enforce the rs. Presumably. What if the HA is not the author? I dunno.These days most estates are mixed, private/social housing. Which is the type of estate that I live on and there is a caravan in one of the gardens.It's quite a large garden, so as long as the OPs caravan doesnt massively block anyone's view, it should be ok.
The covenants here say no caravans, boats or commercial vehicles to be parked on driveways.
We queried this with the developers when we bought the property as we were looking to buy a motorhome (registered as a motor caravan). They were very clear that it was exceptionally rare for them to enforce the covenants.
We bought the motorhome and it has been happily tucked up on the driveway for a few years now with no complaints. But we are fortunate that it is tucked away out of sight and no neighbours can see it from any of their windows with how the properties are positioned, in fact we can't even see it from a window!
Several properties now have caravans and commercial vehicles as well.
In the ops case they really should consult the housing association in the first instance.0 -
Why do people consider storing their caravans on their driveways? A few people near me do it and therefore I know when they go on holiday and their house is empty and I daresay the local miscreants also know, surely its a security issue advertising to all when you are away?3
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There is an estate in my town where some of the people live in the caravans themselves and rent the houses out.0
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ggtazzy said:Hi there I have just finished building myself a driveway because me and my partner are wanting a caravan so we can have some holidays in it as my partner suffers from many mental illness and this would be good for her well-being. Problem is I have just found out that my housing association as is the same with many others throughout the country do not allow caravans on the property and you are to ask permission but from the reading I have been doing I can't find any examples of anyone actually getting permission there is plenty of examples of people being told to move there caravan or else. So my questions are has anyone actually been given permission and if so what's the best way to go about getting it.
However the most relaxing it ever got was when it was sited for a year as it meant we could just arrive and everything would be already set up.2 -
BungalowBel said:There is an estate in my town where some of the people live in the caravans themselves and rent the houses out.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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We have had our caravan on the front drive for at least 20 years. We moved it there when it was broken into on a farm storage site. Several window were broken. I was really only vandalism as nothing was stolen. It took * months to get the windows replaced as there are so many different variations and the caravan was about 7 years old. The is a restriction on our lease say no caravans on drives but as the house was built about 70 years ago no one bothers. There are quite a few on our road with them.0
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gettingtheresometime said:ggtazzy said:Hi there I have just finished building myself a driveway because me and my partner are wanting a caravan so we can have some holidays in it as my partner suffers from many mental illness and this would be good for her well-being. Problem is I have just found out that my housing association as is the same with many others throughout the country do not allow caravans on the property and you are to ask permission but from the reading I have been doing I can't find any examples of anyone actually getting permission there is plenty of examples of people being told to move there caravan or else. So my questions are has anyone actually been given permission and if so what's the best way to go about getting it.
However the most relaxing it ever got was when it was sited for a year as it meant we could just arrive and everything would be already set up.That's a suggestion I was going to make. If OP and partner like to visit the same part of the country it might be easier to berth the caravan at a holiday park or even buy a chalet rather than a caravan. It's not always cost effective, especially when it comes to selling them on, but if OP uses the site often enought it might be worth the outlay.Mind you, OP hasn't returned so I think this thread has probably run its course.1 -
We have no restrictions on caravans, so keep ours on the driveway, and have done for 25 years. We have nobody facing us across the road, a few houses are "side on" to the road so could see the van, and our immediate neighbours can probably see it from their upstairs windows.
Our neighbour on the "caravan side" has a large Leylandii hedge, so cannot see the caravan from her driveway.
Storing a caravan on a secure site is expensive, several hundred £ per year, and you cannot keep an eye on it or look after it like you can at home. Packing the caravan to go away takes a couple of days and is so much easier if you can do it at your own pace. We would not have a caravan if we could not have it at home. We are not concerned that it shows we are away, we have good home insurance and security measures in place.
We have used it for a visitor to sleep in on a couple of occasions, when we had a lot of visitors at the same time, this is permitted by the local authority.
A motorhome is a registered vehicle, unlike a caravan, so unless there is a specific restriction against parking one, it could even be kept parked on the road.0
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