A 1998 double-decker, re-engineered for stillness. Four sleeps, full kitchen, off-grid capable. Mobile experiences that travel, to festivals, fields, weddings, and the edges of ordinary.
A complete off-grid conversion, a tested rate card and this website, sold as one lot. No project, no snagging list. The land is being cleared, so the timeline is real.
The best spaces I've ever been in weren't the grandest. They were the ones that held you, that someone had thought about, properly, before you arrived. The light, the smell, the feel of the fabric on the arm of the seat. The way the window framed the morning.
That's what The Bus is. Every decision in here was made deliberately. The hand-stained oak slats in the galley. The brass shower fixtures. The throw on the master bed. The kitchen that actually works off-grid because someone went back and did it again until it did.
"Everyone who steps on board arrives with something on their shoulders. They leave lighter. That's the only brief that matters."
You don't book a bus. You book a room that happens to be parked in a field, on a festival edge, outside a wedding barn, exactly where you need it, exactly when you need it there. And when you leave, it goes away quietly.
A double-decker is 10.4 metres of volume most people waste. Every cubic metre here is a decision, treated as its own brief.
One chassis, four distinct operations. The rate card below is what we built it to charge. It has not been tested in the open market, and the section underneath shows you why that matters.
Parked on private land, fully off-grid, four adult sleeps. Arrival supper on request. For couples rebuilding, friend groups, queer family trips, or anyone who needs three days outside of themselves.
The Bus as venue. Cabaret bar, private room, brand activation, queer-curated nights, delivered to locations that can't build the infrastructure themselves.
Backstage artist lodgings, VIP green room, or retail activation. Pride, Wilderness, Latitude, we know the circuit, the PM teams, and the access routes.
Weddings, stills shoots, music videos, brand films. The exterior is unbranded and ready for an artist wrap, which is what turns it into a shoot location. Driver on request.
You own land. We park a bus on it for up to 60 days a year. You earn money. We handle everything. You do nothing except say yes.
Under the Class BC Amendment to Permitted Development Rights, a mobile structure can be sited on agricultural or brownfield land for up to 60 days per calendar year without full planning. We slot in cleanly, insured, turnkey.
"A field with a Bus in it earns more than a field. The 60-day PDR window is the shortest path to revenue a landowner has, if the Bus is insured, safe, and leaves cleanly. Those three things we guarantee." , Simon Williams · Studio19 by partnerships.community
Two different things, and we are not going to blur them.
Over the last twelve months the bus has been in private use on site. It has not been let commercially, it has no Airbnb history, and it carries no review score. What you are buying is a finished asset and an untested-in-market rate card, not a running book of bookings.
We could have left that off the page. A buyer would have found out at viewing, and then wondered what else we had not said.
Published nightly rates for converted bus and coach stays in the UK, taken from live listings. Sleeps-four properties sit in the middle of this range.
Live UK listings, August 2026. Full comparable set on request.
Illustrative only. These are our numbers, not achieved results, and they are gross of running costs, cleaning, platform fees, insurance and pitch rent. Build your own version before you buy anything.
60 nights at £150 to £250. Sixty days a year is the legal ceiling on agricultural or brownfield land without planning permission. This is the low-friction start: no site licence, no planning application.
120 nights at £150 to £185. A realistic first full season on a site with a caravan site licence, listed on the usual platforms, priced against the comparables above rather than above them.
150 nights at £200 to £220. Requires a good location, real marketing and a second season of reviews behind you. Achievable, not automatic.
Gross payback runs from roughly two and a half years at the strong end to five years or more on the permitted development route, before costs and before any resale value. Events, private hire and festival placement sit on top of that and are where the margin actually is.
If something is not listed here, it is because we have not verified it. Ask and we will check rather than guess.
It is being sold unbranded. A full artist wrap is the single highest-return thing a new owner can do to it: it turns a converted bus into a photographed object, and photographed objects get booked. We can introduce you to artists who work at this scale if you want that route.
Sold as seen, as one lot. We are not breaking it up.
A ten-metre double-decker is not a caravan. Here is the honest version so you can plan before you commit.
The land it sits on is being cleared, and our attention is on other things. It is not distress and it is not a fault. The build is finished and it deserves an operator who will actually run it.
No. Buyer collects. We will introduce you to the contractor who knows the vehicle and the access, and he will quote you direct. We take no cut.
People do. That is a question for the council covering wherever you put it, not for us. The permitted development route in the pitch covers sixty days a year on agricultural or brownfield land without planning.
Yes, and you should. Viewings are by appointment, weekends and evenings. Bring someone who knows vehicles if you want.
Deposit to reserve, balance clearing before collection. Standard. We are not releasing it against a promise.
Sensible offers are considered, particularly from a buyer who can collect quickly. Time is worth more to us than the last few hundred pounds.
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