Sources and method
Every figure carries a source and a date.
Nothing here is estimated. If we do not hold a figure the page says so, rather than filling the gap with an average or an industry guess.
Where the data comes from
| Source | Covers | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Owner reports | Site fees, pitch licence terms, van detailsThe only reliable source of fees. Parks do not publish them, and every other route we tried returned none. | Submitted directly, published as ranges |
| Park websites | Season dates, subletting rules, occasional age limits and feesA minority of independent parks state a fee plainly. Operator marketing publishes "from" prices, which we reject: a from-price is the figure a park advertises so it never has to state the real one. | Cited with the page and date |
| Overture Maps | Park names, locations, postcodesAn open POI dataset from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom. The backbone of the park list. | CDLA Permissive 2.0 |
| Food Standards Agency | Postcodes, coordinates, local authorityParks with a bar, shop or cafe are registered food businesses. Partial by construction: a park with no food outlet never appears. | Open Government Licence |
| OpenStreetMap | Coordinates, cross-checkingWhere the park list started. Conflates static parks with touring sites, so everything from it is reviewed before publishing. | ODbL |
| Council licence registers | Licensed sites, units permitted, season conditionsThe authoritative record of which parks exist. Holiday site registers are not published, so these are being requested council by council. | Requested under FOI |
What we will not do
- No estimated fees. A figure is either reported by an owner or quoted from a page we can cite. There is no third category.
- No "from" prices. They are marketing anchors, not fees, and publishing one as a fee would be worse than publishing nothing.
- No individual reports. Fees appear as a range per park and pitch type. A park average is withheld until three owners have reported, so no single person's figure can be worked out from it.
- No bulk copying of listing sites. Competitor directories are used for manual cross-reference only.
Where we are up to
1,142 parks published across 115 councils, with 3,388 more being checked. We hold fee data for 3.
That last number is small and it is meant to be visible. It is an accurate description of how little this industry discloses, and it only moves when owners tell each other. Report what you pay.
Last updated 2026-09-20