RD 518/2026: what changes on 1 October for motorhomes
What the myth says, and what the BOE says
It is being claimed that RD 518/2026 «permite dormir en cualquier calle». That is not in the text. What the rule does is impose conditions on parking and relocate the municipal power, which remains intact.
The three conditions of the new art. 92.4
The parking of motorhomes and other vehicles fitted out as living accommodation must be carried out:
- Without extending any of the vehicle's own elements beyond the perimeter of the vehicle, understood as its footprint in plan view.
- Resting only on the tyres, with the possibility of safety chocks or wedges. Levelling legs are excluded.
- Without discharging fluids from the living compartment.
With all three met, the act is still parking. With one breached, it ceases to be — and that is where the regime changes.
The article almost nobody mentions: 156
The rule repeals the old art. 93, and from that comes the reading that «ya no hay prohibición». But it relocates the full municipal power into a new art. 156, which also allows parking to be charged for «en función de sus dimensiones».
In other words: the municipality keeps the competence it had, and gains a charging tool that was not previously written down. A municipality with its own by-law still prevails over the state rule.
What happens until 30 September
Paragraph 92.4 does not yet exist. Until that date the Reglamento applies without it, and this site does not publish the new text as law in force: each municipal page shows it separately, under «What changes on 1 October 2026», with its date.
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And the part the RD does not touch
Parking, sleeping in the vehicle overnight and camping are three distinct legal facts, and RD 518/2026 deals with the first. A municipal by-law may forbid what the State allows; what it cannot do is allow what the State forbids.