Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 – FIRST SCHEDULE
We often get asked where a holiday home (caravan) can be placed, for what purpose and for how long. To help alleviate this, we’ve extracted below the relevant sections of the “Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960”. If you’re still uncertain, it’s still always best to check with your local authority planning team.
Cases where a Caravan Site Licence is not required.
Use within curtilage of a dwellinghouse.
A site licence shall not be required for the use of land as a caravan site if the use is incidental to the enjoyment as such of a dwellinghouse within the curtilage of which the land is situated.
Agricultural and forestry workers
“…a site licence shall not be required for the use as a caravan site of agricultural land for the accommodation during a particular season of a person or persons employed in farming operations on land in the same occupation.”
“…a site licence shall not be required for the use of land as a caravan site for the accommodation during a particular season of a person or persons employed on land in the same occupation, being land used for the purposes of forestry (including afforestation).”
Building and engineering sites
“…a site licence shall not be required for the use as a caravan site of land which forms part of, or adjoins, land on which building or engineering operations are being carried out (being operations for the carrying out of which permission under Part III of the Act of 1947 has, if required, been granted) if that use is for the accommodation of a person or persons employed in connection with the said operations.”
Use of holdings of five acres or more in certain circumstances
“…a site licence shall not be required for the use as a caravan site of land which comprises, together with any adjoining land which is in the same occupation and has not been built on, not less than five acres—
- if in the period of twelve months ending with the day on which the land is used as a caravan site the number of days on which a caravan was stationed anywhere on that land or on the said adjoining land for the purposes of human habitation did not exceed twenty-eight, and
- if in the said period of twelve months not more than three caravans were so stationed at any one time.
Please feel free to view the entire Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 below, or online directly at www.legislation.gov.uk.