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Caravans and campervans

May 2024

  • View from Lake District campsite on the edge of Derwentwater.

    Lake District caravan owners forced out by 60%-plus price rise

    A huge increase in fees means many vulnerable people have to leave the Derwentwater site they call home

April 2024

  • Steve Green with his campervan Cecil

    Cecil the campervan nearing 900,000 miles and helping clean up UK coast

    Steve Green says vehicle bought in Australia in 1998 and now part of a plastic waste collection team has many more miles in it

December 2023

  • campervan at dusk

    Living in a van makes me an aristocrat among the homeless – but the world seems predatory, unforgiving

    Michael Koren
    I am an artist with no workspace, camped by a sluggish creek and a busy highway in the Queensland heat, where the bush rats, pythons and mosquitoes are relentless

August 2023

  • One of the four Mad Dogs and Vintage Vans caravans at their Herefordshire site, UK.

    10 of Britain’s best vintage caravan stays

    Here’s why retro caravans with original features and wild surrounds are one of the coolest camping options around

July 2023

  • Jane Dunford in the Quirky Campers campervan she hired with a friend

    A wilder kind of campervanning: park and hike on Dartmoor

    A new style of holiday offers off-grid seclusion in a rented campervan, with Devon just one of many places pairing UK landowners with nature-loving travellers

May 2023

  • Spending on static caravans rose to £1.2bn in 2022, up from £900m the previous year

    Static buildup: Hull’s caravan makers enjoy a British holiday boom

    Hull has a strong claim to being the centre of the UK mobile home industry, but while the pandemic boosted sales, there are now fears of a glut

April 2023

  • Sean McWilliam with his static caravan in Northumberland.

    ‘The stress is overwhelming’: the highs and lows of starting a new life in a static caravan

    Evicted or driven out by rent rises, people are turning to caravans as a cheap option. Some love the lifestyle – but for others, it is cold and unsafe

April 2022

  • Baby sitting in a blue tub trug by a bell tent having a bath on a camping holiday

    British camping holidays boom in pandemic, figures show

    One in five adults have been camping or caravanning during Covid – many for the first time, says Mintel

February 2022

  • Caravans in Southport, England in 2021.

    Easter bookings boom as UK’s pandemic love affair with caravanning continues

    Camping and Caravanning Club reports bookings for its 100 sites are up 33% on Easter 2019

August 2021

  • Merton and Webster in their motorhome.

    ‘Constantly stunning and invigorating’ – Paul Merton and Suki Webster on campervan touring

    The married comedians on the great views, friendly folk – and friendlier sheep – encountered on their tour of England and Wales for a new TV series

June 2021

  • Polmanter touring park in St Ives, England.

    ‘It will be busiest year on record’: England caravan parks boom as lockdown eases

    Sites report rise in caravan and motorhome bookings as visitors put overseas trips on hold

May 2021

  • a vehicle from Barefoot Caravans parked on the beach with a table set for two

    Younger buyers discover joys of caravanning for Covid-era holidays

  • Suzanna Jones, a former truck driver who lives in her van near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, with her dog, cat, hens and a quail.

    ‘I was sleeping in laybys’: the people who have spent the pandemic living in vans

April 2021

  • “It’s not all Jack Johnson, beaches and fluffy dogs.” Karsten, Zuri and Maxine Smith travel Australia by Kombi van

    Nappy nomads: the couples who do #vanlife with babies on board

    As the vanlife community grows up, a new generation is being born into the bohemian travelling lifestyle. Doosie Morris meets the couples who take their lives, and babies, on the road

December 2020

  • A campervan and RV park in Australia.

    As summer holidays loom, the ACCC warns of a deadly fault in RVs and caravans

    Water heaters by Suburban recalled over fears they may produce unsafe levels of carbon monoxide when used in gas mode

June 2020

  • National Trust campsite at Wasdale Head Cumbria

    Are you planning a holiday in England this summer?

  • Motor scooters

    Scooter and moped demand triples as commuters look to shun buses and trains

September 2018

  • Deliciously bleak … Camping, Julia Davis style. Now the series is getting a Lena Dunham US makeover.

    'If this is paradise, give me hell': the camping shows Lena Dunham should watch

    A journey into horror, an epic adventure in self-discovery, or a soggy family nightmare? As the writer of Girls remakes the British sitcom Camping, we provide some inspiration

April 2018

  • Mam Nick, a road from Edale to Mam Tor, within the Peak District national park.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive: restrictions on caravan sites in the Peak District – April, 1956

    26 April 1956: The Peak Park Planning Board draws attention to a ruling that a caravan site be shut down as it formed an ‘incongruous addition’ to the national park

March 2018

  • Large static site caravans for residential or holiday purposes.

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Can the landowner evict tenants from a residential caravan site?

    The council-tax paying residents have found notices taped to their mobile homes by bailiffs
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