Can You Park A Camper Van On The Street?

If you are new to Camper Vans, or have just bought your first Camper Van and you are dying to take it out on the road, you are probably asking yourself if you can park a Camper Van on the street or not.

Well, the good news is, you can almost certainly park your camper van outside of your house, on the street, providing there are no regulations stating that you can’t park it there clearly on show.

For anyone visiting this from outside of the UK, I apologise, because this post is written with the UK Camper Van and Motorhome market and it’s regulations in mind.

The UK is where I live once again, at least for now, and I don’t currently know the regulations for anywhere else other than for the UK and Spain.

Spain is where we lived until recently, and it is where I was when I owned my first Camper Van. I spent hours and hours researching where I could and could not take and park my Camper Van legally.

Spain is a country that is extremely well known for it’s red tape in every part of life. The ownership of Camper Vans and the Traffic Regulations relating to them are certainly no different.

There appears to be two main questions that come up regularly during my research, they are namely:

• Where can you park an empty Camper Van?
• Where can you park a Camper Van and actually stay in it overnight?

They are both obviously very closely related, but they also have their differences. So let’s have a look at them both, as well as a few other things related to Camper Van regulations and and where you can and can’t park them, hopefully we’ll be able to clear at least a few things up.

Contents

• 1 Where Are You Permitted To Park An Empty Camper Van?
• 2 Can I Park A Camper Van Outside My House?
• 3 Do I Have The Legal Right To Wild-Camp (Boondock) In The UK In A Camper Van?
• 4 Can I Sleep In A Camper Van Outside My House?
• 5 Can I Park My Camper Van In A Public Carpark?
• 6 Should I Put My Camper Van In Storage Instead?

Where Are You Permitted To Park An Empty Camper Van?

When it comes to our initial question of “Can You Park A Camper Van On The Street”? If it is an empty Camper Van, one without people staying in it that we are talking about, then the answer is yes, almost always…

There is no current traffic regulation that I am aware of, or that I have been able to find preventing you from parking your Camper Van on the public street, provided there are no clearly visible signs stating otherwise.

That is to say, visible signs such as parking restrictions that are applicable to all vehicles. Things like double yellow or single yellow lines, or the fact that the street or road you plan to park on being an Urban Clearway, amongst others restricted stopping areas. If there is not a Parking Restriction showing, then you are permitted to park your Camper Van there.

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