Caravan and mobile home

Before you apply for a licence you will need to have planning permission for the caravan site.

You do not need a licence to run a caravan site if

• forestry workers, builders, travelling showmen or seasonal workers (like fruit pickers) stay in caravans on the site
• the site is five or more acres and there are three or less caravans there for 28 days or less a year
• you are a member of an organisation like a caravan club and have a caravan exemption certificate
• your site is approved by an organisation with a caravan exemption certificate
• members of an exempted organisation stay in their caravans on the site
• your site is used for a social get-together of caravan club members (a 'rally')

How to deposit site rules

We are required to keep and publish an up-to-date register of deposited site rules. If you are a caravan site owner, and have drawn up site rules, you must provide them to us and we will publish them on the public register. 

A fee of £174 is payable for the deposit of site rules. Site rules are only valid where the correct process detailed below for their deposit has been followed.

To deposit new or amended site rules, complete the form online and pay the fee. You will need to provide evidence to demonstrate that the correct residents' consultation process has been followed.

Deposit, Variation or deletion of site rules application and payment

Process for setting site rules

The Mobile Homes (Site Rules) Regulations 2014 detail the procedure that a site owner must use when making, varying or deleting a site rule. They establish the process for consulting on proposed changes, grant appeals rights and require local authorities to keep and publish a register of site rules of sites in their area.

1. You must first consult with all mobile homeowners and any qualifying residents association (QRA) to explain the proposal using the Schedule 1 form contained within the legislation. The consultation must be open for all responses for a minimum of 28 days.
2. Within 21 days of the end of the consultation you must send a Schedule 2 Consultation Response Document to all homeowners notifying them of the result of the consultation and which site rules are to be adopted.
3. Having received the consultation response document, if a resident wishes to appeal the proposed rule or rules, they have 21 days to do so to the Residential Property Tribunal (RPT).
4. Assuming no appeals are received, you must deposit the new site rules with New Forest District Council no later than 42 days after serving the consultation response document. You must also notify residents of the notification using the Schedule 3 form.
5. If an appeal has been lodged, you cannot deposit the site rules until the appeal has been determined. Once the appeal has been determined, you would then have 14 days to deposit the site rules with this authority, unless otherwise specified by the tribunal.