New builds rules on new estates

blueybug

AdrianC wrote: »

I rather suspect that it isn't the "rules and goalposts" which are changing, but your awareness of them.

FWIW, I wouldn't have said that your van fell within the spirit of the restriction, even if the letter of the restriction could be interpreted to include it.

No it's the goal posts

My awareness is fine but thanks for checking

blueybug

borkid wrote: »

Actually on my new build estate they do say a reasonable number of domestic pets. |I have 4 cats which they are OK with but I don't know what they would say if we'd bought our chickens instead of donating them to our daughter.

Re vans there is a size limit on the estate I live on. My main issue with vans, and this is due to the size of some, is parking. Despite the fact every house has a garage and a parking space very few use the garage for their car so the parking space is used and the second car parked on the road, this narrows the road so that only one car can pass comfortably. It also makes it difficult if anyone has visitors.

Chickens and pigs not allowed on this one

My friends est is the following
No vans over 3.5T
Bins are not allowed out the night before
Anymore than 3 cars per household you need written permission to have (5/6 bed houses)
Lawn not to go higher than 2" grass height
No sheds in rear garden.

AdrianC

blueybug wrote: »

No it's the goal posts

My awareness is fine but thanks for checking

Riiight. So - to take one somewhat pertinent example - when you signed the deposit doc, there was absolutely no restriction on signwritten vans? It wasn't that you didn't know about it, it was just that it didn't exist...?

You _sure_ about that?

blueybug

AdrianC wrote: »

Riiight. So - to take one somewhat pertinent example - when you signed the deposit doc, there was absolutely no restriction on signwritten vans? It wasn't that you didn't know about it, it was just that it didn't exist...?

You _sure_ about that?

Yes nothing black and white was written on the piece of paper I signed. She viewed my van and said you need to cover that up. I then said I own a trailer, no that can't be here either. She is providing me with their " rules" this week

AdrianC

blueybug wrote: »

Yes nothing black and white was written on the piece of paper I signed. She viewed my van and said you need to cover that up. I then said I own a trailer, no that can't be here either. She is providing me with their " rules" this week

Thank you for agreeing with me.

borkid

blueybug wrote: »

My friends est is the following
No vans over 3.5T
Bins are not allowed out the night before
Anymore than 3 cars per household you need written permission to have (5/6 bed houses)
Lawn not to go higher than 2" grass height
No sheds in rear garden.

That's a bit OTT. The bins get emptied here at 6:30 am , the council say put them out the night before.
No restriction on car numbers but my 5 bed house has parking for 6 med sized cars without parking in the garage.
Would be interesting measuring the lawn, luckily we have no lawn, hate all the mowing. There is a clause stating what is accepetable in the front garden.
Only size restrictions on a shed but we have an 8x6 and I think could have gone a size larger ( the developers provided this).
I thought some of the restrictions we had were due to the estate abutting the village conservation area but maybe they are the norm. The roof pitch had to be steeper to fit in with the surrounding houses.

borkid

blueybug wrote: »

Nothing on contract that I signed, the sales person happen to tell me while she was talking parking rules. I've asked for a full document but like most things on this estate the rules and goal posts are moving all the time.

As much as I love the house the way the builder is changing it's becoming rather fun

Do you mean the contract at exchange or what you signed to reserve the plot. Before we signed the contract our solicitor made sure that we had all this info from the builders. We had a huge pack of paper work to read through which included several pages from the builders.

blueybug

borkid wrote: »

Do you mean the contract at exchange or what you signed to reserve the plot. Before we signed the contract our solicitor made sure that we had all this info from the builders. We had a huge pack of paper work to read through which included several pages from the builders.

It's the reserve paperwork. Like I said I've asked for full regs and rules which she said will copy over to me.

borkid

OK we didn't get any info when we reserved but the reservation fee was 'only' £250 and we were buying off plan and were getting them to do a lot of quotes for alterations we needed which they wouldn't do unless we had reserved. Infact that £250 was money well spent because the sales person was much better than our estate agent for getting info about the chain and hurrying things along and kept us informed as soon as she discovered anything.