Would you let a Beri-Beri onto your campsite?

[Pernickety]

Mornin all,

There's changes in the wind and it looks like I'm going to be living/working in a converted camper 365 days a year everywhere from Ben Nevis to the Med. This isn't choice so much as necessity, the house is empty, no-one to look after anymore and the echoes are driving me nuts--if I don't do it now, I never will. Spent my life as a mountain climber and more used to snow holes at 20,000 feet than beds on the first floor, so although van life is new being outdoors is second nature.

So seeing as this isn't just for two weeks here, two weeks there, I need something that let's me work without being interfered with too much either by the law or by thieves, and no you ain't allowed to interfere with me neither, except I might swap a cup of tea for a decent biscuit.

Anyhow rather than buying an out and out camper, which I can't afford, I'm aiming to buy a panel van and convert. Having already sought opinions on the stealth question over at DIYMotorhome, quite a few folks were of the view that plain panel vans didn't actually blend in so well outside of urban areas, so I'm looking to convert in a way that's a compromise, not an out and out camper and not fully suspicious/secretive stealth neither.

At the moment that's looking like a LWB Renault Master/Movano or Sevel equivalent, maybe with a bonded privacy window each side (no windows in the back doors), roof window/vent and flexi solar panels.
Probably not much different from these (they aren't mine by the way):

Outside photo, inside photo.

So my question, and I'm asking because I simply don't know, is am I likely to be turfed out of campsites in the UK or Europe just because it's a panel van?

I'm not the hippy, pot-smoking type though probably look a bit scary in me breeks first thing in the morning. The van won't look like a builder's yard--I'm more arty these days--and anyway travelling with my Beri-Beri who's quite fussy about his fabrics. Beri-beri is my rubber duck by the way, and no you ain't allowed to interfere with him neither!

Actually why's it starting to sound like it isn't the van that'll be the problem?

Thanks, Andy

 

[Ranger]

Six foot bed, it depends how you measure it. If you make a double but camp alone it would be seven foot six across the corners. You don't have to show the measurement on the photos so as long as it looks like a bed there will be no problems.