Creation of camping sites

Any provision of camping pitches on a regular basis requires planning permission for the creation of a serviced camping site. These pitches can be rented bare or equipped (tent, caravan, etc.). They constitute a reception capacity.

Must be preceded by a prior declaration the setting up or making available to campers, on a regular basis, of sites with a capacity of less than twenty persons or less than six tents, caravans or mobile leisure homes;

Must be preceded by a planning permission the setting up or making available to campers, on a regular basis, of sites with a capacity of more than twenty persons or more than six tents, caravans or mobile leisure homes;

These planning documents can only be issued in the areas of the PLUi intended for camping sites (NT or UTL sectors).

The tents

The provision of pitches for tents to campers on a regular basis requires the creation of a serviced campsite (see above).

Yurts without interior or exterior equipment are considered to be tents.

Caravans

Caravans are considered to be inhabitable land vehicles intended for temporary or seasonal occupation for leisure purposes, which permanently retain the means of mobility enabling them to move by themselves or to be moved by traction and which the highway code does not prohibit from being driven.

The provision of pitches for caravans (whether installed or rented) to campers on a regular basis requires the creation of a serviced campsite (see above).

A motor home or a converted vehicle (van) is considered to be a caravan.

Mobile leisure homes (mobile homes, trailers, etc.)

These are habitable land vehicles intended for temporary or seasonal occupation for leisure purposes which retain the means of mobility enabling them to be moved by traction but which the highway code prohibits from being driven (art. R. 111-41 CU).

Mobile leisure homes may only be installed :

1° In residential leisure parks specially designed for this purpose, other than those created after 1 October 2007 and operated by the transfer of pitches or by the rental of pitches for a period of more than one year;

2° In holiday villages classified as light accommodation under the Tourism Code;

3° In regularly created campsites, with the exception of those created by a prior declaration or created without planning permission, by a declaration to the town hall, on the basis of the provisions of the town planning code in their version prior to 1st October 2007 or constituting natural camping areas.

Light leisure dwellings (chalets, bungalows, safari tents, yurts, bubbles, etc.)

Light leisure dwellings are considered to be dismountable or transportable structures intended for temporary or seasonal occupation for leisure purposes.

Light leisure dwellings may be located :

1° In residential leisure parks specially set up for this purpose;

2° In holiday villages classified as light accommodation under the Tourism Code;

3° In the outbuildings of family holiday homes approved under the Tourism Code ;

4° In regularly created campsites, with the exception of those created by a prior declaration or created without a development permit, by a declaration to the town hall, on the basis of the provisions of the town planning code in their wording prior to 1st October 2007 or constituting natural camping areas. In this case, the number of light leisure dwellings must remain below either thirty-five when the site has less than 175 pitches, or 20 % of the total number of pitches in other cases.

Yurts, bubbles or "safari" tents with indoor or outdoor facilities are considered to be light leisure dwellings.

Tree houses

The erection of a tree house is considered to be a new construction on the ground and therefore requires planning permission. The land must be classified as a building zone.