The site fee, sometimes called the pitch fee, is what you pay the park each year to keep your home on its land. It is separate from the price of the home, and it usually goes up every year. Over ten years it is often the biggest cost of owning a holiday home, bigger than the home itself.
What a site fee covers
It normally covers roads, lighting, communal areas, security and the park's own running costs. It rarely covers business rates, water, gas or electricity. Those are billed on top, sometimes by the park and sometimes by the supplier.
- Ask for the fee as a single yearly figure, with the year it applies to.
- Ask which services are included, in writing. "Everything" is not an answer.
- Ask for the fee on the pitch you are looking at. Fees differ by row, view and pitch size.
How increases are set
Holiday homes are not covered by the rules that cap residential pitch fees. Your licence agreement sets how the fee can rise, so read that clause before you buy. Some parks link rises to inflation plus a margin; others leave it to the park's discretion. On this coast, published rises in 2026 ran from about 3% to over 9%.
Ask the park to show you the last five years of fees for your pitch, not the average for the park.
What the park page shows
Every park page shows the fee the park publishes, with the date we checked it, and a fee-by-year table where the park has published more than one year or owners have reported it. Where a park publishes nothing, the page says so, and you can tell us what you pay anonymously.
What to ask for before you buy
- The current fee for the specific pitch, and the date it next changes.
- Five years of fee history for that pitch.
- The clause in the licence agreement that sets increases.
- Whether rates, water, gas, electricity, insurance and gas safety checks are extra, and roughly what they cost.
- Whether the fee is reduced if the park is closed for part of the year.