The totally comprehensive guide to mobile homes in the garden is available as a book on Amazon or Ebay priced £30. It's a step by step guide on how to obtain a certificate of lawfulness for a mobile home in your garden, everything you need to know and more...
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100 pages of infomation A4... example forms and certificates.
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Orginal Documents of Law with explanations.
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Over 50 floorplans and designs.
Did you know a mobile home could be used as a residential annex in the garden of a house without the need for planning permission? General Conditions...
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Land situated outside of a conservation area, national park or article land where development is restricted.
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Use must accompany the house, used by a family member for example and not rented as a private residence.
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Located in the residential boundary of a dwelling house. Not adjoining woodland or agricultural land.
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Can be assembled on location, under guidelines, if access is restricted.
Many homeowners with large gardens would like to build residential annexes to their property in order to both increase the value of the site and expand the living spaces.
In many cases household extensions and garden room summer houses are allowed without planning permission but homeowners cannot build a large residential garden lodge / bungalow, with full cooking, washing, sleeping facilities without the need for planning… so what’s the big secret? How can you build a large bungalow in the garden without planning? … the answer is a type of ‘caravan’ called a ‘mobile home”!
The laws that allow a touring caravan to be parked in a drive also allow a large mobile home to be sited in a garden and used in association to the main house.
The objective of this book is to inform the reader of one thing: the permitted development right to site a caravan or mobile home in the garden of a house without the need for planning permission.
Historically mobile homes have little architectural beauty and bear connotations of lower class living standards. However, modern designs and build methods can offer all the luxury of a conventional build.
You may have seen mobile homes and static caravans being transported along the motorway and think of the practical impossibility of delivering the structure into your back garden or down a local road… no problem… caravans, even large mobile homes, can be assembled on site if access is restricted.
Building a residential ‘granny annex’ as a mobile home is fantastic way to avoid the need for planning approval altogether and substantially increase the value and use of your property.
CONTENTS:
Section 1 – Introduction
• General Conditions
• Permitted Development Rights
• Bad Access?
• Certificate of Lawfulness
• Mobile Homes have moved on!!!
• What are ‘caravans’?
• Different types of Caravan
• Big!
• Conforming to the Definition
• Good idea!
• Law Source for Caravans in Gardens
• What does incidental mean?
• Incidental use or separate dwelling?
• Demonstrating Incidental Use
• Definition of a ‘Dwelling house’
• Definition of a ‘Curtilage’
• Farm / Agricultural Land
• Agricultural Workers Dwellings
• Notes: The Legal Definition of a ‘Caravan’
• Notes: The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960.
• Notes: Case Law
Section 2 - Original Documents of Law
Section 3 – Contacting the Council
• Example Letter 1 & 2
• Lawful Development Certificate
• Benefits of a Lawful Certificate
• Time Limits for Enforcement Action
• Application for LDC Notes
• Application for Proposed Use or Development
• Example Application
• Example Council Approval
Section 4 – Floor Plans
• Floorplans
• Example Designs
• Design Templates
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