>Where can you put one?

If it's a stand-alone dwelling, you need planning permission. You can site a caravan within the easement of an existing dwelling without planning permission, but you can only use it as an extension to that dwelling rather than a stand-alone dwelling - you could put your nan or your kids in there, you could use it as an office, but you couldn't make it into a separate home. Farmers can site static caravans without planning permission, but only to accommodate temporary agricultural workers.

https://www.allenscaravans.co.uk/blog/the-guide-to-planning-permission-for-mobile-homes-and-static-caravans/

It's illegal, or at least outrageously difficult, to escape mortgage/rental slavery in Britain through cheap alternative housing.

You can sometimes get away with building a "shelter" intended for use maintaining a plot of land, kludging that with a mobile home parked up and sometimes moved may do it. You'd need to own the land for that, but that can be affordable, about the cost of a deposit on a home. Have a look on various housing websites, there's usually an option for land only.

My uncle lives in a rented caravan. It costs him about £400 monthly, and we're in Hampshire.

Very cosy existence.

>>456678

There are loads of mobile home parks in this country, but they tend to be over-55s only or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

>>456677
Be aware planning departments take a dim view of such activities and your one complaint away from coming to their attention.
A story I've heard from multiple sources has someone buying land, gaining planning permission to construct a lake or pond, when signed off as completed by the local planning dept promptly craning in a narrow boat to live in and sticking two fingers up at the local council - not particularly practical advice to most but I admire his chutzpah

>>456687
> or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

This. Plenty of static caravans go for about 20 grand, with a sea view, on the South coast - I'm sure they are cheaper elsewhere too; but they all have restrictions on how many months per year you can stay in them, and hardly any allow year-round living.

>>456707
What if you bought two or three caravans in different parks and split your time between them?

>>456707
There was a case in East Yorkshire where someone built a holiday lodge park on the edge of Beverley and misled people into thinking they could live there all year round. Retrospective planning permission was denied so the council ended up having to evict the owners, about 200 pensioners. It was on Look North all the time for what felt like a decade or so and I'm sure he got away with it in the end.