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That looks good, but I'm in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands and there is nothing like that near me.

We were looking at putting an office pod in our garden, does anyone know the best value ones to get?

Yeah seems expensive, but an interesting concept, I've never seen anything like it before...

Hi, I saw this office pod which is on top of a trailer, what do people think of it? I tried to find out how much they cost new, but can't find anywhere that makes anything like it. https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-household-goods/mobile-office-glamping-pod/1376395572

I've been researching some pods and to get a completed ensuite one around 7 meters long and 3.5 meters wide it is around £25-30k. You can buy a frame kit for around £2k, it would probably work out much cheaper to kit it out by yourself? Has anyone used a frame kit to build a pod? https://www.cncdesign.co.uk/extra-large-glamping-pod-frame-kit-7200-3500.html

Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, but was wondering if anyone has any experience with installing en-suite 'camping' pods (or think sometimes they're known as 'glamping' pods)? I was posting the other day about putting in a static caravan in, but now thinking about putting a pod or two in the garden, one to be used as an extra bedroom for family or perhaps rent out to friends (which would need planning permission to rent out I think) and the other as a home office. They wouldn't be in prominent locations so shouldn't blight the landscape, I don't really like seeing pods in obvious locations either. There are lots of them in my area that people rent on airbnb, I might ask around to see where they got them. I read about these frame kits on another thread in the forum, but they seem like a lot of work and a bit too permanent, would rather something that could potentially be craned to another location at a later date like in the video shot in Ireland linked below. The luxury pod from timber builds looks ideal, but a little expensive at £14,500 + 5% Vat. Frame kit: https://www.cncdesign.co.uk/frame-kits.html Luxury pod Timber Builds: https://www.timberbuilds.co.uk/luxury-pods/ Pod installed in Ireland:

Our neighbors won't be able to see the caravan from their house or garden where we are thinking of putting it, there are many trees and bushes in the way, even if the trees weren't there they wouldn't be able to see it as there is also a hill in the way. They will be able to see it a little bit when they're actually driving to their property, but not when they're at it.

I could be wrong but from what I can understand having a caravan (static or touring etc.) in your garden is not really a 'permitted development' because it is not really a development as such. This is the only specific guidance I could find regarding mobile homes from the Highland Council: https://www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/file/1346/bst_018_caravans_and_mobile_homes It says that wastewater systems aren't excluding from building regulations, but it doesn't say that they need planning permission. The more I read that khub forum it seems to be a mass of confusion among planning departments about static caravans in the garden, someone was even told they couldn't have a caravan 2 meters from a boundary fence, but someone else says that is not true and you can as long as it is in your garden and used for ancillary purposes there will be no material change of use. Michael Hyde seems to have a good idea about things: https://khub.net/web/planningadvisoryservicepas/forum/-/message_boards/message/9505175

Not a croft, but there is agricultural land around my house, it's owned land not registered with the crofters commission. There is an interesting thread on this other forum: https://www.khub.net/web/planningadvisoryservicepas/forum/-/message_boards/message/34177194 It seems like a lot of planning officers that object to a static caravan forget that it is classed as a caravan and think that rules for other developments apply. There are also some planning rules around developments in front of the front elevation of your house, but I don' think these apply to caravans. A lot of people say it needs to be within garden curtilage, does anyone know where you can find out what land around your house is officially classed as curtilage?

Hi, we're thinking of putting a static caravan in our garden for part-time use as kind of extra bedrooms, does anyone know if this would require planning permission? It wouldn't be used as a totally separate dwelling, it would still have involvement with the main house. I'm in the Scottish Highlands and the nearest neighboring house is over 200 meters away. I've tried reading the Highland Council website but can't find anything that helpful, I think you need to pay them £55 just to ask them if you need to pay the £400 for a full planning application. We are on around 20 acres of agricultural land, how far away from our house would stop being considered in the garden? I think it is a grey-area about where a garden actually ends. I already read the below link which was a little helpful: http://minihomes.co.uk/planning-for-mobile-homes-in-gardens/ This thread on another forum was helpful: https://www.khub.net/web/planningadvisoryservicepas/forum/-/message_boards/message/227183334