Search "how many days can I camp without planning permission" and you'll find answers mentioning 28 days, others mentioning five units with no day limit at all, and very few explaining that these are actually two completely separate legal mechanisms. If you've come away from your research more confused than when you started, that's why.
Certification isn't a quick form and a rubber stamp — it's a proper vetting process, and we're upfront about that from the first conversation. So rather than tell you it's worth it, we thought it was more useful to let the site owners who've been through it say so themselves.
Type "planning permission for glamping" into Google and you'll fall down a rabbit hole of council jargon, forum horror stories, and blog posts that all seem to disagree with each other.
Farm incomes have been squeezed for years, and diversification has gone from a buzzword to a necessity for a lot of landowners. Holiday lets, wedding barns, farm shops — all well-trodden paths, and all requiring significant capital and, usually, full planning permission.
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Not the version where you put your phone face-down at dinner and call it a digital detox.
Britain is wilder than you think. The evidence is out there, down a quiet lane, at the end of a field track.
There's a particular kind of traveller who's started to ask a different question. Not just where do I want to go — but how do I want to do it?
When you book a stay at any Wanderlust site, a share of your membership contribution is channelled into wildlife support
Exemption Certification solves the legal question of permission to operate. But Wanderlust membership goes further than that - we're by your side, filling your units with bookings.
