Living on a residential mobile home site

If you live on a residential mobile home site (park home site), it must be licensed so you can live there permanently all year round.

You will usually own the mobile home you live in and rent the pitch it’s located on from the site owner.

The rules are different if the site is only licensed for holiday units. You cannot live in a caravan on a holiday site all year round, even if it is licensed for holiday use for 12 months of the year.

Before you buy a residential mobile home

Make sure that the site and the pitch are licensed for residential use all year round.

Find out what to check before you buy a residential park home on the National Caravan Council website.

Living on a site

You must:

• live there as your only or main home
• follow the terms of your written statement – the agreement that sets out what you and the site owner are responsible for and what rights you each have
• pay the site owner for utilities supplied under the agreement
• pay Council Tax

The site owner must have a residential site licence from the local council.