Caravan Park & Holiday Site CCTV: A UK Buyer's Guide

A caravan park or holiday site is one of the trickier things to secure properly. The valuable stuff — touring caravans, static units, boats, plant — is spread across acres, the busy season fills the place with guests who all expect privacy, and the quiet season leaves rows of unoccupied units that are a magnet for theft and vandalism. Add storage compounds with no mains nearby and entrance barriers a long way from the office, and conventional wired CCTV becomes a trenching nightmare. This guide covers how UK parks actually secure these sites — practically, and without digging up the whole place. Last updated: June 2026. What you're really protecting It helps to break a park into the zones that each carry different risk: The main entrance — the one point every vehicle passes. Get this right and you have an audit trail for the whole site. Storage compounds — touring caravans, boats and trailers parked off-season. High value, high target, often furthest from power. Static/holiday-home rows — occupied in season, empty and exposed out of it. Amenities and back-of-house — shop, reception, fuel, plant store, bin areas. The perimeter and quiet boundaries — where intruders prefer to come in. Each zone wants a slightly different camera, but they share one constraint: power and broadband rarely reach where you need them. Why off-grid is the default here, not the exception On a typical park, the entrance, the far storage compound and the back boundary are exactly the spots with no convenient mains and no broadband drop. Running cable across a live site full of guests is disruptive and expensive. That's why solar-powered 4G/5G CCTV suits parks so well: each camera is self-contained — solar panel, battery and a SIM — so it goes exactly where the risk is, not where the cabling happens to reach. The one rule that matters is sizing for a British winter, when daylight is short and the park is at its emptiest and most vulnerable. Our off-grid solar calculator sizes the panel and battery for your camera and location. ANPR at the entrance: your single most useful camera If you do one thing, log every vehicle at the entrance. An ANPR camera on the entry lane gives you a searchable record of which vehicles came and went and when — invaluable after an out-of-hours theft, and a strong deterrent once visitors realise plates are read on the way in. It also helps with day-to-day operations: flagging expected deliveries, contractors and known problem vehicles. Get the lane geometry and mounting right and capture is reliable; our ANPR procurement guide covers the detail. Storage compounds: where the big losses happen The off-season storage compound is usually the highest-value, lowest-supervision part of the whole park — rows of unattended tourers and boats, often tucked at the back. This is where a couple of solar 4G cameras with good night vision and AI intrusion alerts pay for themselves. You want \"person in the compound at 2am\" pushed to a phone, not a hard drive nobody checks until a unit's already gone. For a fully temporary or fast-changing layout, a redeployable mobile CCTV camera you can reposition season to season is often the better buy than fixed installs. Privacy: get it right before you deploy Holiday parks are full of people enjoying their downtime, so CCTV here has a privacy dimension that a remote yard doesn't. Cover entrances, compounds, amenities and boundaries — the operational and high-risk areas — and avoid pointing cameras into pitches, windows or private outdoor space. Put up clear signage, keep a simple record of what's covered and why, and you stay both effective and proportionate. Guests rarely object to cameras on the gate and the storage yard; they object to feeling watched on their own pitch. A sensible starter specification For a mid-sized UK park, a workable layered setup looks like: ANPR on the main entrance lane — every vehicle logged Solar 4G cameras on the storage compound with AI intrusion alerts Redeployable solar cameras covering off-season static rows Fixed or solar cameras on reception, shop and fuel/plant One app for live view, playback and alerts across the lot, so the duty manager has a single screen Scoping your park Every park's geography is different, so the right answer is a quick site-specific spec rather than a shopping list. Tell us the layout, the zones that worry you and where power and signal actually reach, and we'll spec the camera mix, SIMs and solar as one system. Start with the Solution Builder, browse the full 4G/5G CCTV range, or talk to our UK team. Free UK delivery on orders over £75; trade pricing for parks, groups and installers.