Walked between caravans

[Tevion28]

Hi currently staying on in my friends holiday home and me and dp wanted to walk down to the river and took a quick route between 2 caravans and a lady came out and shouted very aggressivly do not walk between the caravans and slammed her door shut so was we in the wrong.

Sometimes you get lots of caravans on one large patch of grass with road/path only around the outside. How on earth wound you get out from a central caravan or do you just have to stay there, trapped lest you set foot on someone else's grass 😆. If you want complete privacy caravan parks aren't really the best place to achieve it.

I cannot explain hard enough how this is literally not the same thing in any way whatsoever

The action of using a disabled loo v cutting across a pitch are not comparable, no.

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She doesn’t own or rent the land outside of her plot snd it it’s a caravan as opposed to a static home there is no outside space as such normally

She has literally no right to behave this way unless she c a produce legally binding documentary evidence to the contrary

Tbh I’d be tempted to go back and ask her for sight of it

evion28

Just a thought though do they actually have rights to that patch going between or just the area that the caravan is pitched on“

Seriously, you’re giving it this much thought? 🤣
Just use the path.

It just reminds me of people who buy a house without a drive and then claim the space on the road in front of it as their parking space.

My neighbours have done this. They also shout at my kids for standing on the communal grass outside of their house (they are a first floor flat so it's not even directly in front of their window it's in front of the downstairs neighbours who doesn't care. They have fenced off and hedged the communal ground at the back too despite that it's also meant to be communal and put up a shed and everything, then asked me to call my letting agents to report that they had wasps swarming above THEIR window because ot wound be expensive and they thought the agency would pay as the roof is communal 🤷🏼‍♀️. They wound definitely shout at anyone passing on a caravan site 😆

When I book a tent or touring pitch I pay for a pitch say 10m x 10m. I assume this is for my use.

When I book a caravan, I just book the van, not the 2m surrounding area although sometimes they say you can park your car alongside the van.

I get if caravans are privately owned some space around the van may be for the sole use of the owner, sometimes these are fenced though.

@Heartofglass12345

I didn't know this was a thing, I don't get why you can't walk between two caravans?!

Me neither and I've been caravanning with tourers and static ones.

"Would you walk through someone's garden to get somewhere without their permission??"

Yes, if a public footpath goes through it as happens sometimes with farmyards. If it's a public right of way you can walk there.

Some very mixed opinions but great thread

@Shirleyphallus
I'm also intrigued by the use of "salty" - what does it mean, and is it a regional word?

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But who do we listen to? Plenty of people who own caravans or holiday in them have said they don't know this rule?

MNs is not the fountain of all knowledge, often the views are crazy eg not answering the door at night, not turning up unannounced, etc

If she had come out and politely asked me not to walk by her caravans I would have apologised, explained I had not realised and not done it again, if she had come out screaming at me like this woman did to you I would have told her in no uncertain terms where to go the sad cow.

@Tevion28

To be honest I never knew this was a thing I've stayed at hoseasons and everybody does it.

I'm with you on this.

When people rent a caravan they are only renting the caravan (no where in any booking I have ever made has said caravan and grass in front.

Caravans are sited on public areas.

I walk through all the time and have had people walk through on my plots too. I just wave and say hello. I don't get uptight and precious, and certainly wouldn't scream like a banshee at someone.

We go to haven about three or four times a year and I never knew this was forbidden!!

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Christ if we believed and followed everything I read on here who knows where we'd all be. 🤣

I got a telling off for one of my feet being on someone's driveway once, I was trying to get a closer look at some birds. It wasn't the resident that told me off but the people I was walking with. Apparently it would have been fine to admire the birds in their front garden as long as both feet were behind the line of the driveway 🙄 If I looked out my window and saw someone looking into the plants with one foot on my drive I wouldn't think they were going to rob me. But different places have different concerns and rules. Now you've been told you just have to suck it up, even if it wouldn't be a big deal to you. When in Rome.

I'm glad I read this because I'd like to go on a caravan holiday one day and I'd never had known not to walk between them. Is this the same for those beach hut things too? I'm a very ignorant city person lol

Yes people walking past where you live is the same as people being disturbed on a caravan site where they expect some peace and quiet.

If I expected peace and quiet, the last place on earth I'd be holidaying is a caravan park.

The fact that these places have 'etiquette' is news to me. Common sense would tell me playing a ball game right outside someone else's pitch, or dropping in on someone else's wave, is not good manners. Walking between two caravans to get from A to B, no.

*I cannot explain hard enough how this is literally not the same thing in any way whatsoever

The action of using a disabled loo v cutting across a pitch are not comparable, no.

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Thankyou I thought it was clear what meant but you can't argue with stupid 😂 best not to try

@liveforsummer

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Christ if we believed and followed everything I read on here who knows where we'd all be. 🤣

In isolation on the Shetlands with no designated parking spaces, pesky NDNs, in-laws within a 500-mile radius, hot tubs, bog brushes, or murals on the wall.

You're welcome

I really don’t think this is about the nitty gritty legality of who owns or rents the patch of grass between caravans.

It’s about just not being a dick and sharing a field and not upsetting other users and respecting everybody’s space. Just stick to the paths. It’s common sense and good manners.

People are crazy territorial for things they perceive theirs but not actually theirs.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks yes that sounds likely - having already LTB. You'd shop for essentials (mumsnet can provide a list of what this is) only once a fortnight. Make sure you never exceeded a fistful as a portion size and enjoy a thimble of wine only on special occasions lest you be tarred as an alcoholic.

Oh and you'd never EVER walk on grass near a caravan on a public site

I have some sympathy for shouty woman.

We have a touring caravan which we use at the same site every time. You have a pitch and everything within that space (there's no actual boundary) is yours to use. I get irrationally irritated by kids and the occasional thoughtless adult walking straight past our windows, within a foot or two, as a shortcut. It's just a bit thoughtless really and intrudes on the "space" you need from other people.

Having said that I wouldn't shout at people for it, just have a cathartic moan to my husband and then forget about it.

At the holiday parks we've stayed at, you'd never make it to the caravan without deviating from the paths so it's not a universal rule applicable to every static site ever.

If it's a particular rule of the site, they should state it with other rules such as curfews for noise and access.

I've recently been camping and pitched up near a gap in a hedge that people were inevitably going to use so we parked the car as a buffer between where people would pass and the tent.

I've lived in the end of a cul-de-sac and people would often try to push through the neighbour's hedge to a public space beyond, clearly walking over well-maintained privately owned grass. Politely but firmly saying thar there was no access through the garden and they needed the jitty on either of the neighbouring streets did the job without and animosity.