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Restrictive covenants in gated community
parcival
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We live in a gated community that is about 10 years old. Each house is identical and each house has either a garage or an allocated parking space. We also have an area for visitors parking.
There are restrictive covenants regarding paint colours on exterior walls etc as well as covenants restricting residents parking in the visitors area. Unfortunately out of 80 properties we have about half a dozen residents who habitually abuse this and leave cars parked in the visitors for a day or even several days at a time. This often means that there is no space for genuine visitors.
Over the years many letters have been sent both by the developments own management committee and the appointed managing agents - all to no avail.
Are these covenants enforceable and if so could someone take legal action against the management committee and / or managing agents for a failure to enforce them.
There are restrictive covenants regarding paint colours on exterior walls etc as well as covenants restricting residents parking in the visitors area. Unfortunately out of 80 properties we have about half a dozen residents who habitually abuse this and leave cars parked in the visitors for a day or even several days at a time. This often means that there is no space for genuine visitors.
Over the years many letters have been sent both by the developments own management committee and the appointed managing agents - all to no avail.
Are these covenants enforceable and if so could someone take legal action against the management committee and / or managing agents for a failure to enforce them.
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I would think it would be very difficult to actually enforce and would probably require a vistor to leave a car parked there for several weeks as by the time you've complained it would be gone anyway.0
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Print off some stickers and slap them on the windscreens of the offending vehicles if it bothers you that much.0
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