Mobile Home Curtilage

[Alison Bradnock]

We live in a large log cabin which is obviously described as a non permanent mobile building.  It has been in place for over 17 years now.  It has a garden all the way round it fenced off from our surrounding land/fields.  We have applied to our Council to have a 7m x 3m wooden pod placed within our curtilage for my elderly father to live in & I can care for him - he would still have meals, etc within our dwelling home.  We were advised to apply for a Certificate of Lawful Use & thus employed a Land Agent to submit our application.  We have now been told that the Council are digging their heels in over the issue of 'a mobile home cannot have a curtilage'!!  Thus we have been advised to withdraw our application which has been a total waste of money!

I am searching the internet to see if I can find any statement/law that actually states the above as fact.

Please can you assist.

[Ian Walmsley]

Hi,

It most certainly can have a curtilage, but this might not be that large.

A lot will depend upon how the application for a certificate of lawfulness for the log cabin has been submitted. 

I hope that your agent did not discuss the other proposals. This should never happen!  If they did, this is why you are getting issues.

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