Loobylou72
Guest
Dear Members
Please help. My husband and I are tenants of a beautiful pub in the Peak District. We welcome campers in vans to park for free overnight in our carpark and use our beautiful pub for food and drink - everyone's a winner! In fact I think several members on here have visited us.
Our landlord's who own the building are incredibly difficult and one of their latest plans is to stop us having overnight parking of campervans on our carpark. We've had a solicitors letter quoting from the 'Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960' saying that we are acting illegally by running a 'caravan site'. We are not running a caravan site, just trying to boost our business by allowing people to camp overnight in our carpark. There have never been any issues with noise or bad behaviour or anything. Everyone who has camped here has been fabulous, well behaved and left early the following morning.
Does anyone have any knowledge of camping or parking legislation, or know anything that would be any help to us as I need to respond the their solicitors by 4pm on Tuesday or they are threatening breach of contract and issuing a section 146 notice, which is effectively an eviction notice or an injunction!!
Any help would be most welcome, we have had several quotes for legal advice starting at £500 for an initial consultation and we just don't have the cash, so we are replying ourselves so if anyone could share their knowledge, there's a pint or two in it for you!
Thanks
Lou
Please help. My husband and I are tenants of a beautiful pub in the Peak District. We welcome campers in vans to park for free overnight in our carpark and use our beautiful pub for food and drink - everyone's a winner! In fact I think several members on here have visited us.
Our landlord's who own the building are incredibly difficult and one of their latest plans is to stop us having overnight parking of campervans on our carpark. We've had a solicitors letter quoting from the 'Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960' saying that we are acting illegally by running a 'caravan site'. We are not running a caravan site, just trying to boost our business by allowing people to camp overnight in our carpark. There have never been any issues with noise or bad behaviour or anything. Everyone who has camped here has been fabulous, well behaved and left early the following morning.
Does anyone have any knowledge of camping or parking legislation, or know anything that would be any help to us as I need to respond the their solicitors by 4pm on Tuesday or they are threatening breach of contract and issuing a section 146 notice, which is effectively an eviction notice or an injunction!!
Any help would be most welcome, we have had several quotes for legal advice starting at £500 for an initial consultation and we just don't have the cash, so we are replying ourselves so if anyone could share their knowledge, there's a pint or two in it for you!
Thanks
Lou