Restrictive covenant question

00ec25

if you are simply llooking for leverage over the LL, then this sounds like an HMO , in which case check with the coucil if they are a) aware of it and b) if it complies with their requirements

you will have great difficulty enforcing a "family" covenant becuase its not you who hold the covenant. However the council should be more helpful over HMO regulations

Fang_3

00ec25 wrote: »

if you are simply llooking for leverage over the LL, then this sounds like an HMO , in which case check with the coucil if they are a) aware of it and b) if it complies with their requirements

you will have great difficulty enforcing a "family" covenant becuase its not you who hold the covenant. However the council should be more helpful over HMO regulations

Ooh thank you. That actually raises another question - as I understand it, the rules of defining a HMO is a house with more than five unrelated people living in the same house, or a shared house with three or more habitable floors? Now my former house has a ground floor with lounge, kitchen and bedroom, then another floor with the bathroom and a small bedroom/study, and then another floor with three further bedrooms. There's also a basement which had a floor and ceiling but is used for storage, and apparently spider breeding *shudder*. Would this count?

timmyt

Fang wrote: »

This may be a stupid question but does:

"That every house shall be for the accommodation of one family only"

in a restrictive covenant mean that the rooms in the house can not be let separately?

correct, that is exactly the position