Campsite and Council Regulations

[tullah]

I’m looking into getting planning permission for 12 huts with aim to be open all year round. No electric at site, just mains water. The council say I'll then need a site license to operate.

Loos will be basic compost with wood shavings in a bucket to be emptied into a heap on farm and allowed to compost.

Pee will drain off into 25L drums which will mean emptying into house sceptic tank each day.

Showers basic hot water gas heated in a cubicle standing on a pallet above shingle so water just soaks away.

There questions….

I’ve heard council are strict on shower water (grey water) saying it can’t drain into a soakaway. Is it true the council and EA do not allow a grey water soakaway?
And what's the easiest way of dealing with it?

Other than chaining the gas bottle to a stake outside the shower cubicle and feeding gas hose into cubicle shower unit, are there any other regs I have to watch for the LPG?

 

[Glass half full]

do punters want compost loos and no electricity?

 

[Kidds]

Other than chaining the gas bottle to a stake outside the shower cubicle and feeding gas hose into cubicle shower unit, are there any other regs I have to watch for the LPG?

I would think you will need to have it tested annually, you do if it is in rented accomodation and I would be surprised if you didn't for a campsite.
Other than that, to be quite frank it all sounds bloody awful. 12 huts shitting in a bucket and some old duffer wandering around with a 5 gallon drum of p1ss all morning. Showers that stink and are full of all sorts of fungi and slugs the size of a cucumber.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Have you researched your market?

I can’t think of anyone I know who wants to shower on a pallet.

You will need to be DBA checked, the liscense is a faff, local council forced me to through it all this year.

 

[steveR]

do punters want compost loos and no electricity?

There is a market...

 

[tullah]

I would think you will need to have it tested annually, you do if it is in rented accomodation and I would be surprised if you didn't for a campsite.
Other than that, to be quite frank it all sounds bloody awful. 12 huts shitting in a bucket and some old duffer wandering around with a 5 gallon drum of p1ss all morning. Showers that stink and are full of all sorts of fungi and slugs the size of a cucumber.

I suspect I will end up as the old duffer.
I’m hoping what they call grey waste which is just shower water can just go to soakaway.
Weren’t we encouraged in times of drought to empty bath water on the veg patch?

 

[Kidds]

I have no intention of setting up a campsite because I couldn't be doing with the folk but if I were I would be fitting a septic tank to service it. You are making a lot of work for yourself proposing to cart pee around in 5 gallon drums and I can't imagine people want to see that going on. I doubt it will end up just being pee in there either.
Compost toilets are fine but they need managing and enough for 12 huts is a big job (pun intended). I would be thinking of reducing huts by 2 and using that money for a shower block, septic tanks with wood and/or solar heating and lighting. Doesn't have to be fancy, I have stayed on sites with very basic showers but not quite as primitive as you are proposing. In a wet spell it is going to stink.
Best of luck with it all

 

[steveR]

I am sure I have seen designs for an "eco" campsite using IBC collection for the waste. Can't recall how it was done mind