Caravan and mobile home licensing

Site owners will need to make an application for us to assess if the person or company managing the caravan site is fit and proper.

If the application is approved, the site manager will be added to the register of Fit and Proper Persons for up to five years.

Mobile homes - fit and proper persons application

Ensure you read all the information thoroughly below and on the ‘Before you begin’ before commencing your application.

We will be checking that the site manager:

• Is suitable to manage the site, for example they have relevant financial and managerial experience.
• Has not committed any offences involving:
  • Fraud or other dishonesty
  • Violence
  • Certain sexual offences
  • Drugs
  • Arson
• Has complied with relevant legislation relating to housing, caravan sites, mobile homes, public health, planning, environmental health or landlord and tenant law
• Has not broken the Equality Act 2010
• Has not been insolvent or disqualified from being a company director within the last 10 years
• Has the right to work in the UK
• Is a member of a complaints scheme which deals with complaints about the management of the site

We will publish the following information on our public register:

• site manager’s name
• site manager’s business contact details
• site name and address
• whether the applicant is a site owner or site manager
• Any conditions attached to the inclusion
• How long they are to be included in the register
• Rejected application information (until we grant a successful application for the site)

We will not include the site manager’s name if we reject the application.

If the application is approved, the site manager will be added to the register of Fit and Proper Persons for up to five years.

You will be committing a criminal offence if you:

• provide false or misleading information, or withhold information from the application
• fail to comply with a condition in the register

If convicted the site owner could face an unlimited fine.

Preliminary decision

If we refuse the application or want to add conditions to the application, we will send you a preliminary decision notice. You will have 28 days to make any written representations if you do not agree with our preliminary decision notice.

This notice will tell you:

• reasons for the decision
• date that the final decision will take effect
• Information about the right to make written representations
• any consequences if you continue to use the land as a relevant protected site if we have refused the application
• consequences of failing to comply with any conditions we impose on the application

After the statutory 28 days we can make our final decision and we will send you a final decision notice.

The final decision notice will include:

• date of the final decision
• what the final decision is
• reasons for the decision
• when the decision is to take effect
• information about any right of appeal including timescales for appeal
• any consequences if you continue to use the land as a relevant protected site if we have refused the application
• consequences of failing to comply with any conditions we impose on the application

Last updated Tuesday, 30th May 2023

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