e-Petition: The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960

We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Assembly Government to remind all local authorities of the regulations under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960.

Further information (supplied by the petitioner)

Firstly, Part 1 (1) that it is an offence to operate land as a caravan site without the issue of a caravan site licence,

Secondly, Part 3 (3) A caravan site must have the benefit of planning permission granted under Part Three of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 before a site licence may be issued and NOT by lawful development certificate.

Thirdly if an occupier contravenes Part 1 (1)  which in turn is guilty of an offence, then on summary conviction, can be  fined to Level 4 on the standard scale (£2,500:00p) rather than be rewarded with lavish developments as is the case at present.

It has come to my attention that a councillor  / Justice of the Peace has signed a declaration that he had used his land as a caravan site , without a caravan site licence or planning for the past ten years, he should have been prosecuted for this serious offence, but, as a wrongdoer he was lavishly rewarded with a caravan site development (lawful development Certificate).

The 1960 Act is there to stop this. The wrongdoer has declared that he is guity of an offence under Part 1(1) of the 1960 Act.

Petition Signatories