'Holiday use only'?

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I'm confused. I'm lusting over a property on Zoopla, Total pie in the sky, I couldn't afford a wendyhouse, never mind a 3-bed barn conversion. and under 'Agent's note' it says 'The property is restricted to holiday use only and can only be occupied for eleven months of the year'. Is that a thing? I don't really understand how it can be so? I mean if you own a house you own it right, so who gets to decide it's for a holiday let only? And why is it?

It sounds like it has a planning condition attached to it which means it can only be used as a holiday let. It’s likely to be because it is located somewhere where a normal house wouldn’t be permitted. Perhaps somewhere very rural or in a really small village. It’s quite common.

Often you can get around the 11 month rule by going on holiday for 4 weeks.

I regularly drive past a building which is for sale with planning to be converted into a holiday home. It can't be lived in permanently. It's a farm building.

A lot of the properties around the Cotswold water park are built on this planning condition, also a lot of static van and lodge holiday complexes. Usually you also have to be paying council tax at a permanent residence to prove that you have a fixed address, other than that of the 'holiday home' you are buying.