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Have to love the Council...We have been getting letters addressed to: The Mobile Home And then our address. We thought this quite funny at the time, as we have ...Thread Tags: gypsy life |
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We have been getting letters addressed to: The Mobile Home And then our address. We thought this quite funny at the time, as we have a 2 birth caravan we are sleeping in while we are doing the renovations. We have just received new council tax details for the property, and it has come in 2 parts. Part one is for the house, which is £1400 minus £420 for long term empty. Part two is for what they call 'Mobil Home' which is another £950!!! ![]() Any idea where we might stand for having a caravan (not a mobile home!!) in the garden? Will be calling them tomorrow and discussing this with them. The house still has the full bathroom in it, and we just use the caravan to sleep in while we are not working or doing work on the house. |
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If the council have already accepted the use etc for the caravan and are expecting you to pay rates on it accordingly, it sounds like your next step is to get permitted development rights/ certificate of lawful use status and build on it! |
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!!!)It could well be something i look into in the future, as i have plans to buy the lump of land behind the Games Room, which is about the size of our plot. Just seems a joke that i have to pay for a caravan, AND the house!! | |
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If you are using the caravan for residential purposes then you have to pay council tax on it. The caravan has to be unoccupied for a certain amount of time during the year to be not classed as a residence. I dont know the exact time for this because where my friend has his caravan the place shuts down for 1 month a year, no one is allowed on site. For me its worked on the time in the caravan, by adding up the time I am not there this gets us outside the requirement. I also need to move the caravan from time to time but that may be because of the way mine is calculated i.e. since its not unoccupied for a set period of time it needs to be mobile not static. <edit>Council guidelines - http://www.voa.gov.uk/instructions/c...n_pn/Frame.htm Quote:
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| Do you loike Dags? ![]() Just called the Council, and they have said that if the house is having major work, and is unhabitable then we DO NOT have to pay council tax on the house, for a Max of 12 months!! Other wise it means a 50% reduction for the house tax, as long term empty and then the tax for the caravan. They are coming out tomorrow to look through the windows (as i am out) to make sure we are not lying! They will see no walls and ceiling, so i think that should justify that one!! |
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