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Forestry and Mobile Homes

It is extremely unusual to obtain planning approval for a dwelling in a wood. However, there is an allowance for forestry workers to live in caravans in woods during a particular season while carrying out forestry work according to Part 5 of the General Permitted Development Order 1995).

PART 5
CARAVAN SITES
Class A
Permitted development
A. The use of land, other than a building, as a caravan site in the circumstances referred to in paragraph A.2.
Condition
A.1 Development is permitted by Class A subject to the condition that the use shall be discontinued when the circumstances specified in paragraph A.2 cease to exist, and all caravans on the site shall be removed as soon as reasonably practicable.
Interpretation of Class A
A.2 The circumstances mentioned in Class A are those specified in paragraphs 2 to 10 of Schedule 1 to the 1960 Mobile Home Act cases where a caravan site licence is not required), but in relation to those mentioned in paragraph 10 do not include use for winter quarters.

There is no specific season according to the High Court, who concluded in 1993 that a season is "less than a year".
Planning permission is not required for forestry work (except where there is a tree preservation order) and may not be needed for buildings or uses of land necessary for forestry.

Using a caravan for forestry purposes, such as storage, shelter for workers or as an office, falls outside of planning controls and you do not need to ask the planning authority in advance. According to the Caravan Sites Act 1968, the legal definition of a caravan includes mobile homes and self-built structures. Under this definition, there is no necessity for the caravan to have wheels, as long as it is under the size limit (60 feet long, 23.3 feet wide and 10 feet high)


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