Looking to buy aproperty with an o licence in place

Remus:

Remus:
Im after a property that has an o licence in place. These are pretty hard to come across.
Im looking for the south east or east midlands area. Owner operator set up. Unit and trailer only

The thread has gone off course a bit. Im just after a property that has an o licence in place. So there is a good chance i could apply and get an o licence myself.
I have a passion for driving and would rent a unit for 4/5 months a year or possibly buy an older unit and subbie. Done a lot of container work out of felixstowe, would probably go down that road.
I have a seasonal business which is winter based. So driving my passion in the summer would be a bonus to my year of work.
Lotta people saying just work for someone. So on and so on. But i want to have my own truck eventually. And not drive the last donkey wagon in someones yard. Been there. Done that.
I struggled to find a transport manager to take me on without shocking fees. So i solved that problem and did my transport managers course.
Im not after making huge amounts of money. I just want the option to try it.
Thank you for posts so far

I think it’s probably the way the title of your post is worded, it does sound a bit like you wanted to buy somewhere for a full scale operation, I know the detail in your post does not say that but, hey, this is Trucknet detail
Have you considered just basing yourself in someone else’s yard ? There is a HGV garage just down the road from me that has multiple small operators running from there, from grab wagons to mixer trucks to straight haulage. Presumably you will need facilities for safety checks / services anyway.
If it helps, and I am not in your area, I have moved operations a couple of times but always on industrial estates and have never had a problem getting an O licence, 2 different traffic areas too, neither has anybody else that I know of when applying on the same industrial estates. I think the problems come when you are applying anywhere near houses, whether there is an existing licence there or not.
One thing I would say is that we, almost, stand our vehicles for a lot of the winter, (we do a little bit of “specialist” haulage),and I think it’s bad for them, especially with regard to brake components etc. Ours are outside, so maybe if you had at least the unit inside that would be better.
I think someone above mentioned that one of the O licence conditions is that you always have a vehicle available. I have had a licence, that should really have been surrendered when I got a knew one, that was on the records for 2 years with no vehicles. I never heard anything from the authorities and in fact when I realised it was still in place, I asked them what to do and they said just leave it run out and don’t renew it. I suspect if you told them what you were doing there would not be a problem and it would save you the costs of safety checks in the winter if the vehicle was off the licence.
Hope all that helps.