All motor caravans (also known as camper vans, motor homes, recreational vehicles) used on the road must comply with various rules about their construction.

Around 4,000 caravans a year are stolen from driveways, storage sites, and even from behind cars parked at service areas and rest stops. You must provide clear evidence that the vehicle you have converted will permanently be a ‘motor caravan’ and it meets the requirements for the internal and external features. The IT team continues to work hard on restoring other Club services including Caravan Cover, Motorhome Insurance and Red Pennant, to name a few. Adventure Awaits is your online destination for exclusive camping essentials that combine convenience, quality, and a touch of wanderlust. That is because the Guidance document which establishes the existence of the conversion to a motor caravan is silent on how to determine whether "the exterior of the vehicle actually appears to be a motor home".

However, it is not possible to determine the existence of this legal duty because there are no means before the V5C is submitted to establish if you have converted a van into a motor caravan. Then they will either decide that the body type must stay the same, or allocate an appropriate description based on the changes made to make sure the recorded body type accurately reflects the vehicle’s external appearance in traffic. Advice from our cyber security experts was to not raise public awareness of the incident and to allow their forensic team to carry out the necessary investigation to understand what systems (if any) may have been accessed. I have included lists of essential kit to keep in or with your unit, as well as those items to pack at the last minute.

Our UK Club winter Campsites, Affiliated Campsites and our CL network have remained open throughout the period and are welcoming guests daily.We love helping you to create your home styling theme you have only dreamed of, from the perfect home styling piece to that oh so soft throw rug. We continue to thank you for your patience, understanding and support, not only for our Club but also for our teams who are working so hard to get systems up and running again. If the vehicle has all of these features present, permanently fixed and installed properly, then it is a legal requirement to have it reclassified as a motor caravan on the V5C . To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Our hobby was really good build quality and they are preferred by a lot of people who live in them year round!

Please note that we will never contact you unprompted to ask for your account details or security information, and we will never ask you to disclose your passwords. CRiS Keeper Registration – The VIN and the caravan description are recorded on a Touring Caravan Registration Document, which is sent to the caravan's registered keeper. CRiS VIN marking and database – VIN stamping (a unique 17 digit Vehicle Identification Number) is applied at point of manufacture by all UK-based caravan manufacturers.Given how expensive even second-hand caravans can be, it would seem only fair to assume that there is some kind of documentation that is proof of legal ownership of touring vehicles.

This description, in addition to other distinguishing features, enables the police and other enforcement agencies to identify a particular vehicle. I haven’t opened the well wrapped book because it’s so nicely done and I’m giving it to my best friend for her birthday as she is a big time camper!

Road-going powered vehicles like cars, bikes and lorries are required by law to be registered with the DVLA. appears to be getting anywhere with this intransigence on the part of the DVLA I will attempt to go over the DVLAs head via the old school network to someone who has the ear of the PM but I am loath to presume on an old friendship if it can be dealt with another way especially as he is up to the neck in the quagmire that is Brexit. At the back of my motorhome, campervan, caravan, and camping logbooks and journals, you will find plenty of extra pages, half of them blank and half of them lined, for anything else you want to keep. Many caravan insurers insist that the caravan is registered with CRiS before they will provide cover.