Do I need a licence?
If you allow your land to be used by the public as a camping site for more than 42 days consecutively, or 60 days in a year, you need a licence from us.
For a caravan site, please contact our planning department first as you may need planning permission. Contact us.
For more guidance on whether or not you need a licence, read the caravan and camping site exemptions and conditions on the Government website.
Apply for a licence
You must have planning permission before you apply for a licence.
Your application must include:
- a completed caravan and camping site licence application form (pdf / 86 KB)
- a site plan showing the layout of roads, caravans and facilities
Please return your completed application to us. Contact us for details.
There is no fee. If your application is successful, you should receive your licence within 60 days.
Relevant protected caravan sites
You can see the fees for relevant protected caravan sites here.
Touring caravan exemption
You can find the exemptions from the need for a touring caravan site licence at Natural England on the Government website.
Park home sites
Most residential caravan sites are what are known as relevant protected sites. You can find more information about relevant protected sites on the Government website.
Park home fees policy
You can read our park home fees policy here.
Park home site rules
Ashdown Park rules
Badger Hill Park rules
Bilton Park rules
Grosvenor Park rules
Langthorpe Mobile Homes Park rules
Little Studley Park rules
Low Bridge Park rules
Lower Dunsforth Park rules
Nidderdale Lodge Park rules
Palace Road Residential Park rules
Quarry Moor and New Park rules
Riverside Park rules
Roecliffe Park rules
Scotton Home Park rules
Shaws Trailer park rules
Springmoor Lodge Park rules
The Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020
The Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020 introduced a fit and proper person test for mobile home site owners or the person appointed to manage the site, unless exempted by the regulations.
Unless the site is exempt, the site owner must either:
- be a fit and proper person to lawfully operate a park home site
- have a fit and proper site manager in place
Apply online
Site owners operating a relevant protected site must apply to the council for the relevant person (themselves or their appointed manager) to be included on the local register of fit and proper persons to manage a site.
A site owner may only apply if they hold or have applied for a site licence for the site.
Applications are online only and payment must be made before the application can be submitted.
DBS certificate
The person applying to be entered on the register will need a basic DBS certificate, no more than six months old and from an approved supplier. This must be included with the application.
You can find out how to arrange a DBS check on the Government website.
Exempt sites
A site is exempt if it's "a non-commercial family occupied site". This is a site only occupied by members of the same family and not being run on a commercial basis.
The regulations provide further detail about this exemption, see The Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020 on the Government website for more details.
Cost
The application cost to be added to the fit and proper persons register is:
- £275.56
View our licensing fees and charges.
If we appoint a site manager the costs for making the appointment will be recouped from the occupier.
Fit and proper person fee policy
What we will consider
To be sure that the relevant person is a fit and proper person to manage the site, and to add them to the register, we will consider a number of factors, not limited to the following:
- past compliance with the site licence
- the long term maintenance of the site
- whether the relevant person has sufficient level of competence to manage the site
- the management structure and funding arrangements for the site or proposed management structure and funding arrangements
We'll also consider whether the relevant person:
- has the right to work within the UK
- has committed any offence involving fraud or other dishonesty, violence, arson or drugs or listed in Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (offences attracting notification requirements)
- has contravened any provision of the law relating to housing, caravan sites, mobile homes, public health, planning or environmental health or of landlord and tenant law
- has contravened any provision of the Equality Act 2010 in, or in connection with, the carrying on of any business
- has harassed any person in, or in connection with, the carrying on of any business
- has had an application rejected by any other local authority
- is, or has been within the past 10 years, personally insolvent
- is, or has been within the last 10 years, disqualified from acting as a company director
We also may consider the conduct of any person associated or formerly associated with the relevant person (whether on a personal, work or other basis), if it appears that person's conduct is relevant.
For more information about what we consider please see our fit and proper person determination policy.
Public register
If the council deems the ‘relevant person’ to be suitable, they will be included on the local register of fit and proper persons to manage a site. A site may have more than one ‘relevant person’ registered, for example, a larger site.
You can see the fit and proper person public register here (xlsx / 28 KB).