Buyer's Guide

Our Pitch Fees are the charge to you, each year, for you to keep your property (the holiday caravan or lodge) on our ground (the pitch).  Pitch Fee costs are dependent on the size of your holiday home.  Our Static Caravan fees start at 35ft x 12ft units, up to 40ft x 12ft and over.   Any caravan over 40ft x 12ft (480sq ft) will have the Large Van Premium added to their Pitch Fee Invoice for the appropriate additional square footage. 

Our Lodge fees are split between Single Lodges (up to 14ft wide), Twin Unit Lodges (up to 20ft wide), and Waterfront Pitch Fee (any size of unit). 

Pitch Fees are a one-off payment paid prior to 31st December each year, rather than a monthly rolling fee.  Pitch Fees are payable in advance of the start of the season, for example, when we look at the 2027 Season Fees, you would be invoiced for these in November 2026 with your invoice being payable by 31st December 2026.

This fee covers Rates, water, refuse collection, and drainage charges across the park.  We calculate this charge by gathering the invoices we receive for each of the services mentioned, adding these up, and dividing the overall total by the number of holiday homes on our Park.  This is a one-off payment paid prior to 30th September each year.  This fee is charged out 6 months in advance and 6 months in arrears.  For example, when looking at the 2026 Season Charge, you would receive an invoice for this in August 2026 being payable by 30th September 2026.  The fees charged on your invoice would cover the period 1st April 2026 to 31st March 2027.

Each pitch at Sandgreen has its own individual electricity meter and we read these every two months.  We read the meters a little more frequently than most other parks normally will, and this is due to the recent price increases we have all experienced in utilities costs.  When we read the meters and invoice for usage more regularly, it means our customers are not getting an invoice for a larger period of usage, and therefore, a larger amount of money to pay at once. 

Once we read your meter and process your reading, we will then send you an invoice for the units you have used, plus the standing charge for the number of days between your previous reading and your new reading. 

All of our electricity meters have a glass screen showing your reading, so customers are able to monitor their own usage and keep track of their readings if they so wish. 

It is very difficult for us to estimate how much electricity you may use in a season.  This depends on many factors such as: how often you visit and how long you stay in your holiday home, which appliances you use and the frequency and length of appliance usage.  You will, as expected, use more electricity during the autumn and winter months.

We have a mixture of bulk gas and bottled gas connections on our park.  Most of our Lodges run on bulk gas, with the majority of our caravans running on bottled gas. 

For holiday homes with a bulk gas connection, your pitch will have its own individual gas meter and will be monitored, read, and invoiced in the exact same way as electricity is. 

For holiday homes with bottled gas connection, your holiday home will always be connected to two gas bottles – one which your caravan will be using off, and one in which your caravan will use as backup when your first bottle runs out. 

When you have an empty bottle at your pitch, all you need to do is call or visit our office, order and pay for a new bottle, and our team will take care of everything else for you.  We will deliver your new bottle the same day, disconnect your empty bottle, connect your new bottle, and reset your regulator.  Currently (March 2026), the price for a 47kg Gas Bottle is £124.70 (inc VAT).

Similar to electricity, it is very difficult to estimate how much gas you may use in a season.  This depends on many factors such as: how often you visit and how long you stay in your holiday home, which appliances you use and the frequency and length of appliance usage.  You will, as expected, use more gas during the autumn and winter months.

For Health and Safety, each holiday home must have an Annual Gas Safety Test carried out. If you wish for our Gas Safe Registered Engineer to carry this out, this is charged out per gas appliance tested within your holiday home, for example, boiler, hob and oven, gas fire.

This charge is only applicable to customers who do not wish to receive correspondence by email and would rather receive everything by post.  This is a one-off payment, payable by 1st March each year.

A Visitor Licence is only needed if someone out with your immediate family will be staying or visiting your holiday home in your absence.

When you are staying in your holiday home, you can, of course, have any visitors you wish stay with you. 

When you are not staying in your holiday home, immediate family members can visit and stay in your holiday home without the need for a Visitor Licence.  Immediate family is classed as your spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister, the spouse of any of those persons and treating the stepchild of any person as his/her child.

If anyone out with immediate family is using or staying in your holiday home when you are not, you, as the Holiday Home Owner, would need to apply for and submit a Visitor Licence to our office for approval.  The form is very straight forward and easy to complete and asks for your details and the details of your holiday home, your visitors details including name, address, contact number, emergency contact number, car registration, and the dates of their visit.  Each Visitor Licence allows them to stay up to 7 days and there is a charge per Visitor Licence.  As we do not allow subletting on Sandgreen, there is a maximum limit of 4 Visitor Licence allowed per year.

The reason we operate a Visitor Licence is to prevent unknown people staying on Sandgreen.  It helps us keep Sandgreen Caravan Park as safe and enjoyable as we can.

You will need to arrange Holiday Home Insurance which will incur an annual Premium charge to you.  We can assist by giving you contact details for our recommended providers.

You may wish to arrange Wi-Fi in your holiday home which could incur additional monthly charges to you.

If you decide to bring your boat onto Sandgreen, you will be required to register your craft with our office, pay a registration fee, and provide us with proof of your craft insurance.  The Boat Registration Fee depends on the size of your craft, starting at £144.00 (inc VAT) for crafts between 10ft and 12ft, up to £468.00 (inc VAT) for crafts 16ft and over (Based on 2026 Prices). This is an annual cost and you are required to register your boat with our office at the start of each season.

Each holiday home should be fully drained down each winter to protect from frost damage.  If you wish our team to carry out the drain down in winter and the reconnection in spring, there is a charge for this.  The current charge for this is £226.80 (inc VAT) for a caravan or single lodge with central heating, and £270.00 (inc VAT) for a Twin Unit lodge with central heating (Based on Winter 2025 Prices).  We send information and current pricing for this service to each customer around September each year.