I would be very wary of living in a static, as the rules for static holiday parks are very different to a proper residential park with proper park-homes. On a fully licenced residential site you have rights, whereas on a holiday site you are at the whims of the site owner/operator.
Be very careful and look at all the site rules and look into what legal rights you have. If you are not legally trained, get a good solictor to look over everything before you sign any kind of contract.
Holiday parks can and do change hands, and the new owner may not be anything like as accommodating as the old one. There is often little you can do about it, as holiday park owners are a law unto themselves. They can, and do, tear up contracts signed with the previous owners, and if you don’t like the new one and won’t sign up to it, they can ask you to leave the site. This is not the case with licenced residential parks, only holiday sites.
The simple answer to OP question is, a lot of people do live in theirs for as long as the site`s season lasts, then as a lot of them are retired fly off to Spain in the winter for a prolonged holiday while the site was shut, with ours it was 6 weeks from mid Jan till March 1st when it opened again. Are you allowed to live in a static caravan HOLIDAY HOME? The answer is NO. Its what it is, a holiday home its just if you decide to have a 10 month holiday in it, thats up to you. There are risks to doing this, Colin has pointed out a couple. Others include the goverment has tightened up on a few things. If you go to a proper registered caravan park, you may have to provide a copy of your council tax bill for your main residential address and they might ask for a couple of utility bills as well. Then there are things the site can do to prevent you "living there". If you have children I would have thought it would be impossible to live in one because of schools wanting a home address, but I dont know. Another thing one of the sites we were on introduced was no one would be allowed to travel to work from the site in their car on a regular basis. Which basically meant if the gate keeper saw you leaving Monday - Friday at say 7am every week they can assume you are going to work. This would give them an excuse to cancel your site agreement. We lived in ours a long time back for a couple of years, but it was a lot easier then. I can remember the site letting you have mail delivered and you could register with a doctor,dentist etc. We loved it, but nowadays I dont think I would try it, which is a great shame as its a great life, but not a guaranteed secure one. As for residential park homes, well a good one is so expensive you might as well stay with bricks & mortar, unless as most of them are for over 55s and you want peace & quiet with no children around and that secure enviroment that park life brings.
Post last edited on 17/05/2016 16:59:03
PS. Would I prefer to live in my static than my house? The answer is yes, but would have to upgrade from my present one. Thats why I brought this one with no central heating, so I dont get tempted.
There are loads of people living on narrow boats in my area. Most of them are exploiting the licencing rules by claiming that they are "continuously cruising", when in reality they stay in the same place for months at a time, even on "24hour" moorings. They rely on the fact that there are very few inspectors on the inland waterways these days to move them on.
There are such things as residential moorings, but they are very few and far between. Waiting lists run to years!
They are one of the reasons we have given up boating. In this area there are few places to moor up for a few hours, or overnight, as except in the middle of nowhere, all the riverbanks are taken up by liveaboards.
Thats interesting Colin, and I love that word liveaboards. It gets you thinking thou, what do these people do with their waste (you know what I mean) surely they dont just chuck it overboard.
Quote: Originally posted by geoffprinter on 18/5/2016
Thats interesting Colin, and I love that word liveaboards. It gets you thinking thou, what do these people do with their waste (you know what I mean) surely they dont just chuck it overboard.
They go to a Marina and have it pumped out for a fee. Similar to an elsan point on a touring park.
I'm sure that many do go to a marina for a pump-out, but there are only two places on my local river that do it, and they are probably well over 20 miles and quite a few locks apart. I'd be surprised if they all made the trip, and there are many that don't seem to have moved for months.
Many that are moored locally to me collect their mail from the village post office where my wife used to work, and quite a few have jobs in the local area.
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Topic: So who live in their Static?
