Acts and regulation
The Caravan and Control of Development Act 1960 requires land owners’ to licence their site if it is operating as a caravan site, including static caravans, mobile homes and park homes. This requirement is regardless of whether the site is for permanent residential use, holiday use or for use by touring caravans, although there are some exemptions.
It is a criminal offence to use land as a caravan or mobile home site without a licence. You may be fined up to £2,500 if you don’t get a licence or breach your site licence conditions. Your site licence may be revoked if you repeatedly breach your site licence conditions.
The Mobile Homes Act 2013 (MHA 2013) introduces changes to mobile home site licensing. It gives us greater powers to monitor mobile home site licenses to ensure licence conditions are met and to carry out effective enforcement action where appropriate. We are also able to charge a fee for all site licensing functions. Residential mobile homes sites, and sites with a mix of residential and holiday mobile homes, must have a residential site licence.