Caravan site licensing

To be happy that the relevant person is a fit and proper person to manage the site, and to add them to the register, we'll consider:

• past compliance with the site licence
• the long term maintenance of the site
• whether the relevant person has sufficient level of competence to manage the site
• the management structure and funding arrangements for the site or proposed management structure and funding arrangements

We'll also consider whether the relevant person:

• has the right to work within the UK
• has committed any offence involving fraud or other dishonesty, violence, arson or drugs or listed in Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (offences attracting notification requirements)
• has contravened any provision of the law relating to housing, caravan sites, mobile homes, public health, planning or environmental health or of landlord and tenant law
• has contravened any provision of the Equality Act 2010 in, or in connection with, the carrying on of any business
• has harassed any person in, or in connection with, the carrying on of any business
• has had an application rejected by any other local authority
• is, or has been within the past 10 years, personally insolvent
• is, or has been within the last 10 years, disqualified from acting as a company director

We also may consider the conduct of any person associated or formerly associated with the relevant person (whether on a personal, work or other basis), if it appears that person’s conduct is relevant.

1. Certificates must have been issued no more than 6 months before the date of the application. It is for the site owner to ensure that any certificate they provide with an application meets this requirement.
2. A Criminal Records Certificate will be required;
   • where the relevant person is an individual
   • for each individual in relation to whom the applicant is required to provide information.
3. If the site owner is the subject of the test, is an individual and will manage the site themselves, they have to provide;
   • a criminal records certificate for themselves only
4. If the site owner is an individual, is the subject of the test, but has appointed or intends to appoint someone else to manage the site, they must provide;
   • a criminal records certificate for themselves and the person appointed or to be appointed to manage the site
5.  If the site owner is an individual and has or is to appoint a person or company to manage the site and be the subject of the test, they must provide;
   • A criminal records certificate for the person appointed or to be appointed to manage the site.
   • If the individual above is not a relevant officer of the appointed company, then the applicant must also provide a criminal records certificate for the officer to whom the individual will be accountable for the day-to-day management of the site too.
6. Where the site owner will be subject to the test but is not an individual, the applicant must provide;
   • a criminal records certificate for the person that the applicant has appointed or intends to appoint to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the site.
   • where the person appointed to manage the site is not a relevant officer of the site owner, a criminal records certificate must be provided for the relevant officer to whom the person managing the site is/will be accountable for the day-to-day management of the site.
   • if that person is also not an individual, a criminal records certificate must be provided for the individual appointed or intended to be appoint to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the site; and so on.