Where do you keep your Motorhome?

No room on driveway at our new house. But the car repair garage next door has a yard behind, which is invisible from the road. We can just see the roof out of the toilet window! So accommodating... we pay £20 p month and only if it is there. They also had space when a friend came to stay in her van, and didn’t charge her.
 
Years ago, I lived somewhere with no convenient parking place, so the van had to go to a storage site: it was awful. It made trips away much more of a palaver, you couldn't nip out to fetch something, to fix something.
Weekends away were stressful because of the need to get back before it closed. More than once he locked up and went home whilst were were unpacking. Good job we were on good terms with the large german shepherd guard dogs left in the compound!
So a motorhome parking spot was a prerequisite for the next house we bought!
 
Lucky enough to have a drive big enough by the house it is so useful as it doubles as extra bedrooms when family calls.
 
In a haulage yard with the lorries. My last motorhome got severely vandalised when I parked in the road outside. £10 a week
 
we keep it right outside the house, steering lock, external door bars, and an extra habitation door lock, when we're not using it it's on hook up most of the time. I like to keep it there for maintenance jobs, that I do during the winter months
 
Mobilvetta said:
We keep ours on our drive at home, it lives underneath the carport, although we had to have it raised by a meter to accommodate it. We also have security lights that cover all around the house and CCTV cameras that send me an email image should anyone come into there zones.

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Is that a boiler flu on the left hand side at the rear ?

I think you will have problems with safety checks if it is ?

Where I live I would be limited to a height of 2.5 meters along the boundary wall and any electrics signed off by an electrician or the local council.

However I am allowed 30 square meters of roofing, 2.5 meters at the boundary wall and 4.5 meters at the house wall, otherwise it has to go in for a planning permission application.
 
harrow said:
Is that a boiler flu on the left hand side at the rear ?

I think you will have problems with safety checks if it is ?

Where I live I would be limited to a height of 2.5 meters along the boundary wall and any electrics signed off by an electrician or the local council.

However I am allowed 30 square meters of roofing, 2.5 meters at the boundary wall and 4.5 meters at the house wall, otherwise it has to go in for a planning permission application.
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It is but my son has put a flu extension kit on it so the flu goes through the roof of the carport now so that we don't get fumes in the carport as it is blocked on three sides.
 
When we were tuggers and had a bit more spare cash we had a hard standing and double gates installed at the far end of the garden (we have a tidy sized plot !!), It was great for the vans and as guest accomodation. But once we came to the dark side said area has become a repository for a scrap bbq, 30+ meters of scrap fencing, several blue gas bottles (most still full) and various other bits of junk and all nicely hidden. The 'van lives on the drive plugged into the mains with a yellow post and our car behind it. Even though it's ancient we have an Aldi shed alarm in it (yes I know :D) but the alarm goes off outside. We live in a close so all our neighbours know when we are here or when we are not and we all look out for each other, and we among several of our neighbours have keys to each others houses
 
tapfitter said:
Ours is kept on our driveway at the rear of our property, ready to go at a moments notice.
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Ours too behind 7 foot high gates and as mt land goes down by two feet can not be seen from outside except me neighbors and planes flying overhead he he


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we live on a residential park home site although we have a very relaxed management and a huge plot fire reqs class them as caravans and the 6 mt law invalidates the mobile home insurance if kept there , we have it stored in a barn on a farm 1 mile away no restrictions on collecting etc there is another motorhome and 5 caravans stored there cost is £5 a week but not charged if i’m away for months
 
V1nny said:
The very first morning after I brought our motorhome home and parked it on the drive, I had a neighbour at the door asking me where I was going to store it. At this stage we hadn't even had a night away yet! He proceeded to inform me that according to our property deeds we aren't allowed to keep caravans on the drive; I told him it isn't a caravan. He then said we aren't allowed to keep a van on the drive; I told him it isn't a van.

I was tempted to store it on the drive permanently, but as it was always our intention to store it on a nearby farm, my wife persuaded me not to be so childish, and we have stored it there ever since for £250 per year.
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When we moved in the neighbours knew we had a Motorhome, we had thought it would fit down the side of the house but had not taken into account the gutter overhang on the bungalow, so it was parked on the front drive (nothing in the deeds against I checked). The neighbours complained that it was blocking their view of MIL’s house and suggested we put it in storage where they keep their caravan. We said we wouldn’t as we use it so much. They stopped talking to us, that lasted for 3 years - now they are as friendly as could be, no idea what changed!
 
nabsim said:
No drive at home (when there) so I have storage on a farm that does motorhome and caravan storage as well as having a caravan site and statics. Owners live there along with some staff. I have 24/7/365 access so long as I either text or call to let them know, that’s to stop them calling police or blocking road with a tractor :)
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Can you please tell me where this place is as we are looking at leaving our motor home somewhere in October when we head back to Australia. ?
 
Jo Mac said:
Can you please tell me where this place is as we are looking at leaving our motor home somewhere in October when we head back to Australia. ?
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There is a caravan site in Buxton called Lime Trees, it is the farmer that owns it all, they have some tourers, statics and lodges as well as a farm shop (very good) and caravan and motorhome storage. Here is a link for the site, if this is the wrong number they will be able to give you the right one.
Lime Trees
 
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We are lucky, have a holiday home which is coded gate access only to the 68 acre site. Will keep the campervan there as based most of our time in UK there ( opens ten months in a year) Only issue is that it is a very wooded area so will have to work out some sort of cover which is quickly removed, to guard against all the leaves and bird poo!IMG_20190126_160604.jpg
 
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