Static mobile home - advice please

[cotswoldcs]

I've recently advertised a job that is going on our farm. If I'm not lucky enough to find someone local I may resort to buying a static mobile home. I have read the rules about siting a caravan and assuming I don't want to put the unit in the garden or driveway, how easy and costly is it to get planning permission for a static caravan?

What do you do about waste, electric and heating? How much does it cost to get them moved on-site?

 

[danpwll]

Dont think you need planning for one static ??

 

[mrs mtx]

I've recently advertised a job that is going on our farm. If I'm not lucky enough to find someone local I may resort to buying a static mobile home. I have read the rules about siting a caravan and assuming I don't want to put the unit in the garden or driveway, how easy and costly is it to get planning permission for a static caravan?

What do you do about waste, electric and heating? How much does it cost to get them moved on-site?

Not sure where you are or if it works differently where you are but we were point blank refused planning by national park

 

[GTB]

We have one here. Never asked for PP just bought an old one for £500 delivered (10 yrs ago). Connected it in to the septic tank (luckily it happened to be in the right place), 25mm blue water pipe and ran an underground cable for the leccy. Farm down the road did similar at the same time but had to put in a fiberglass bottle for the sewerage.

 

[J B]

Dont think you need planning for one static ??

It's not static is it ... it has wheels after all

 

[Kidds]

You are supposed to have planning but we have one on each of our three farms and never asked for permission. Only person we asked was parish councillor who lived opposite one of the sites and they said stick it there and see if anyone complains.

I'm looking to replace one of them and the best internet site I've found so far is Caravan trader. Most include delivery in the price.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

I am currently working on a retrospective application for a client who has a static on his farm for seasonal workers.
I'm not telling you to get planning because many people don't and are fine but be aware that you may be the odd one that gets caught.

 

[cotswoldcs]

Thanks all for your replies.

 

[farmerphilly]

If planning is given then how do you come on with council tax?

 

[roscoe erf]

Jfdi

 

[milkloss]

Overflow housing within domestic curtilage which could be flexible?
Only lived in for certain months of the year?
Try and site it close to a boundary the council may recognise (ownership, previous planning app boundary etc). That way if they get snotty you can pull it just over the boundary and tell them to come and have another go. They'll probably give up. I didn't do this.

 

[Exfarmer]

Some areas are very hot on it thanks to our nomadic friends sudden desire for permanent sites

 

[Henarar]

you can put one in the garden as an annex without planning, for a stand alone "home" you need planning, not sure for seasonal workers but if its occupied as a separate dwelling all the time you need planning

that said you may well find that you put one in and get no hassle, it all depends if someone complains or not, but don't think the council will not know its there they will unless you hide it in a shed or something

 

[Courier]

When you do site it take pics and proof of dates so that you can eventually get retrospective planning after a number of years without complaint.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

We had a static for a few years while we rebuilt the farmhouse. We just had it parked in the corner of the farmyard and planning was never sought or an issue. We transported it ourselves up the A1 very early one Sunday morning- hardest bit was balancing and lifting it using two loaders with pallet forks so a bale trailer could be backed under it...
As for services, we sorted it out ourselves; hose onto the correct pipe underneath et voila water! Piped the loo down the field to a convenient manhole running to the septic tank (not sure how much the relevant authority would like you doing this if you're on mains sewerage) and ran basically an extension lead to the caravan consumer unit for leccy. Heating? Fan heater would be easy. Most of the old ones will have gas fires/ cookers but you'd be a fool not to get them properly checked before letting anyone else use them.
Eventually I sold it on eBay for what I paid for it; a nice travelling gentleman took it's rusting chassis away to pastures unknown.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

As someone already said above, they do have a little set of wheels and a ball hitch (mainly for wheeling them around to the desired place on the pitch once they're off the trailer) so I *think* they're technically temporary; a bit like all the caravans you see parked on people's driveways.

 

[Courier]

As someone already said above, they do have a little set of wheels and a ball hitch (mainly for wheeling them around to the desired place on the pitch once they're off the trailer) so I *think* they're technically temporary; a bit like all the caravans you see parked on people's driveways.

If there is a complaint and proceedings are about to be taken against you just hitch it to a tractor and pull it out on to the road and invite the council officer to take a photo of it in another position then return it to a slightly different site - half a metre will do just so long as it is noticeably different - it will mean that the services need installing with the "movement" in mind. The council have better things to spend taxpayers money on than prosecuting a lost cause.