Restrictive Covenants on New Builds

Mallotum_X

Worth seeing if they will put a time limit on these things.

pimento

Scrootum wrote: »

Making a decent estate look like Chav city with a Sky dish on every house is not really to anyones benefit. (Apart from Chavs).

That's alright if you live in a cabled area. Our only option for TV is to have a dish. We aren't served by Virgin and we live on the wrong side of an eastward facing hill so the only way we could get TV would be to have a dish or a very large aerial.

nomoneytoday

We have such a convenant. Our sky dish is on the garden wall, below sight lines, with no issues.

pimento

Scrootum wrote: »

What do you call the box thing bolted onto the back of a Sky dish?

Why that would be my house, mister.

Relocationrelocation

we had similar covenants but they stated you couldn't put the dish at the front of the house - fine (and for me much preferable) to have the Sky dish at the back of the house.

caeler

I've got all those covenants too. I personally like the stipulation about no sky dishes on the front of the houses. However the builder has to enforce the covenants and once they've finished building will they be coming back to check?! There are plenty of examples around here where owners have ignored the covenants, I suspect unlike us they didn't bother to read them! I ignored one recently, there is something about not changing the front garden landscaping, I've changed mine - well personalised it a bit :-)

patman99

Covenants are only enforceable by the person/company that put them in place. If the company goes bust or the person dies, then the covenant dies to.

We have loads of covenants on the site where I live.
We can't -

Hang washing out to dry
have external ariels/dishes
no parking of commercial vehicles
no business use of property in part or whole

to name but a few. As residents, we have all chosen to ignore the lot & no one has had a letter about it.

AndyPK

so your not allowed an external ariel, or dish.

I bet they haven't even provided fibre connections on the estate!

pimento

Scrootum wrote: »

Council tenant I presume.

I so hate to disappoint you but no. Mortgage free four bed detached, old bean.

ging84

I think the house builders are all too eager to write in heavily restrictive clauses to please nimys and just hope they can rely on common sense when it comes to enforcement.
my favourite restriction in mine is the requirment for vehicles parked to display a valid road fund license (which doesn't exist)