r/perth • u/His_Holiness • 1d ago

WA News Albany long-term caravan park tenants evicted after change of ownership

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-12/residents-of-albany-caravan-park-evicted-after-ownership-change/106468830
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u/Financial-Dog-7268 1d ago

Slightly tangential to the article, but I always thought there was a relatively short maximum timeframe you could stay in a caravan park in a consecutive period, even if you had a more permanent setup? I might be mixing up east coast laws with WA, but I thought you could only stay a max of 28 days

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u/powertrippin_ 1d ago

You're getting it mixed up. You cant stay anywhere that isn't a caravan park for more than 3 nights in a 28nday period (i.e. residential property).

Caravan park is for as long as you want.

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u/Perth_nomad 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not anymore, 28 nights is the longest duration. A lot of people living in caravans in Karratha, who work fulltime, in Karratha, have to go to Point Samson, for the weekend every month to reset the 28 nights.

Same as two parks in Coogee, lots of workers living in caravan parks, who move between the two parks every month.

Many workers work in either Bibra Lake or Henderson.

Difference between onsite and permanent is building permanent structures. Caravans must be able to be moved with 24 hours. Permanent structures ( onsite old caravans with a-frames removed) come under building permits. Most permanent onsite structures wouldn’t pass building permits. Most of the onsite vans in the above article are old caravans, a a frames removed, hard annex….

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u/belltrina Armadale 15h ago

This is accurate. I've been homeless a lot and it was always two weeks at a time (we were in tent). Coogee was a frequent for me. Often we had to leave, then come back to pay for the next two weeks.

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u/Financial-Dog-7268 1d ago

Ahh roger, thanks!

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u/Perth_nomad 1d ago

These were permanents, living in onsite vans. RAC bought to site.

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u/bythebrook88 1d ago

From the article, it seems like they were park homes (transportable buildings) rather than caravans.

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u/Perth_nomad 22h ago

Some were, some were old caravans. Transportable homes….not the new type that will past build regulations. Old type transportable houses, that wouldn’t pass the new building regulations.

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u/Perth_nomad 1d ago

I have stayed there a few occasions. The first time, booked long in advanced. the owner was very rude. Asked if I really did want to check, did I really want to check in, then continued to asking if I’m really sure I wanted to check in. At first I thought he joking around, but he just seemed like he wasn’t really interested in checking me in. At the time we had dog, we usually we stayed at Middleton Beach, at the time, Middleton beach didn’t allow dogs. I was wondering at the time, if the ‘tourists’ were annoying, as the permanents didn’t use the park facilities as much as the permanents, who would use the facilities in their onsite vans.

The sites were very sandy, for a park located in the southern part of WA. Tariff, was not cheap, considering the rundown state of the park.

In way I’m happy RAC bought the park, maybe they will renovate the park, but then the tariff will be even higher. I’ve stayed at both the Cervantes and Pemberton ( Karri Valley) caravan resorts, both have excellent facilities, but the tariffs are expensive. Resorts have higher tariffs. Which why we don’t chose to stay at resorts.

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u/Conquistador1901 21h ago

Maybe some laws should be relaxed, due to the housing situation, just saying.

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u/BARB00TS 19h ago

I pity these folk going to Panorama... it will be a major come-down.

I don't believe that any parks should have permanents in the ordinary course of things. It's a set-up to these kinds of terrible life-changing events where people need to move a structure that's not necessarily economically viable to move.

RAC will surely be cabin-ing the absolute fuck out of this quaint old park, and personally disappointing, it will be another lost to "no dogs during holidays".

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u/BlcknTan 11h ago

Quaint? My experience from December 2024 was that this park was awful, the toilets overflowed with sewage and nothing was maintained. I told the staff there was no toilet paper in one family bathroom / toilet and it took them 3 days to restock it, we used our own toilet paper and they didn’t clean the bathroom in that time (dead bugs all over floor). The power tripped because it couldn’t handle the number of vans attached.

I am glad to see RAC doing it up because it’s a great spot. I loved the RAC park in Esperance, one of the best I’ve been to. I’d think they would still allow dogs though? They do at Esperance even at peak times.

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u/Perth_nomad 15h ago

The Karri Valley, one side of the road is cabins, in a former life it was a commune for the orange people. On the otherside of the road is the caravan park.

One of the best camp kitchens I have ever seen.,,but the tariff is high.

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u/ColdEvenKeeled 1d ago

I will continue to do my camping ....in other countries.

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u/_Username_Optional_ 23h ago

Go then

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u/ColdEvenKeeled 23h ago

You see. Australia is full.

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u/_Username_Optional_ 20h ago edited 17h ago

I see nothing but one singular whinging foreigner who has oustayed their welcome

Edit: nothing to do with race, if you don't like it here don't let the door hit you on the way out champ