To keep a caravan in the driveway

[TheActualRealCinderella]

Which I can use as an office to study away from the noise of the kids.

Depends how your neighbours would feel...

It’s your home, your driveway, you pay the taxes so it should be yours to to with as you wish.

I don't think YABU. Just don't tell them, or they'll want to use it too.
When I was young, one of my friends had a caravan in their back garden that was never used as a caravan. We used to go and play in it when we got bored.

On a private drive it should be ok. It maybe worth checking first as where I live it’s prohibited to have a caravan, commercial vehicle etc on our drives or the road, if owned by a resident.

You had better check your deeds. Some properties have a covenant in the title forbidding keeping a caravan on your driveway. If that checks out I'd go for it.

Lots of people keep caravans fpr holidays etc, it really isn't that unusual.

Make sure you are allowed to. We live in a conservation area and we can't keep one on the drive or street.

There is a guy up the road from us who has a massive van as he has a child in a wheelchair.

They have a driveway which they have a ginormous caravan on and they park the van on the double yellow outside their house and just change the time on the disabled badge causing a huge obstruction near a busy junction.

I have taken a photo and reported it to the council as one day they will cause an accident

You had better check your deeds. Some properties have a covenant in the title forbidding keeping a caravan on your driveway

^^This.

I live in a town where you can keep your caravan on your property, I didn’t realise it was prohibited by some councils.

Do it .

I'd love a caravan on the drive to escape to. I have camper van fantasies about just buggering off for a little while

Eh!! Depends how your neighbours would feel???? It's nothing to do with them. Go for it Op.

It's your driveway so YANBU.

Our neighbours have filled their front garden with a caravan, campervan, two cars and various "projects" - part of a kit car, a kayak, several motorbike parts etc. It's like living next door to Scrapheap Challenge but it does make it really easy when giving people directions on how to find our house. "Look for the Clampitts, you'll know it when you see it" kind of thing!

^
Ha ha ha that is hilarious. Clampits love it

You can get the details of your deeds and any restrictive covenants online for about £6 from Land Registry. They will be the definitive answer as to what you can do.

We had a yacht in our front garden growing up, made directions very easy. Once got a love letter through the post as a teen literally addressed to "HellenaHandbasket, Yacht in garden, Town Name, County."

As a neighbour I would hate it- but it’s got nothing to do with me so if your deeds permit it- do as you please!

As a neighbour I would hate it

^Me too. But as you are not my neighbour, OP you can do whatever you like.

Near to us a family had a decrepit old caravan on their drive and nobody liked it. Then a smell developed in the area. A really horrible smell. The drains were checkednetc and after a while it was discovered that a tramp had been sleeping in the caravan and had died some time ago.

Sad story, completely irrelevant to the thread but I guess the point is to keep it locked when notnin use. When we were kids we had one and used it for sleepovers which was awesome when we were teens.

A couple of my neighbours have caravans on their drives. Doesn't bother me.
How nice are your neighbours!

@greendale17 you hope!!

Oh and OP, check the deeds and if all ok go for it. Nothing to do with neighbours, not sure why it would cause anyone else a problem anyway.

YANBU. do it.

We have a covenant preventing large vans, caravans, mobile homes and boats on the drive.

Thank goodness. Bloody eyesores, block the outlook and often mean the cars are then parked on the road.

Just make sure you disable it somehow, a friend of mine had hers pinched when she was on the school run....