Belinda Howard

Thank you all for your kind responses it is clear that you are all extremely knowledgeable on this subject may I therefor ask a few more questions? Is there any limit in law to the number of caravans allowed with in the curtilage of a house (garden area)? I have an old touring caravan with in the curtilage of my house that is used to store garden tools etc. it is past its sell by date, would it be possible to rebuild it using timber on the original chassis so that it is the same size and movable or would the council class that as a building operation and say it is no longer a caravan? Thank you Belinda

We have a mobile home in an agricultural field joining our new house it was used during the build, the council confirmed that it did not require permission as it is a caravan. We added an extension that changed the caravan in to a building and the council served an enforcement notice on it, so we removed the extension changing it back to the original caravan. It is now used to store our agricultural equipment for our smallholding. The notice stated remove the building but it is now a caravan. Have we done anything unlawful as we do no want to end up in court, I realise that this is a very complicated question that may well have not been asked before so any advice would be much appreciated. Many Thanks Belinda