Covenant - Sky Dish

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marksoton wrote: »

I'm not doubting it as i'll take that as your word. But if challenged it wouldn't stand.

Do you have "chapter and verse" you can quote as to why you think "it wouldnt stand"?

Chanes

Wow, I'm amazed people think they can ignore covenants!

Marvel1

Another reason why I wouldn't bother with new builds.

Lily-Rose_3

Browntoa wrote: »

Large landowner near me actively enforces the covenants , long list of things on their no list , satellite dishes , sheds , conservatories . They patrol several times a year and issue enforcements

I'm not allowed any kind of cabling down the outside of the front of mine , I'm also not allowed to change the colour of the front door , they repaint every house every 5 years

Again actively enforced

Is this on a property you OWN?

Hell will freeze over before I would allow anyone to tell me what colour I can have my own front door on my OWN house.

!!!!!!?

We owned 3 properties in just under 20 years (1 bed flat, 2 bed house, 3 bed house - built 1984, 1978, and 1974,) and not one of them had any kind of covenant, so maybe we have been spoiled.

All I know is we have never had an issue putting satellite dishes up, putting sheds up, adding a conservatory, having a caravan on the drive, putting fencing up, putting trees up (or chopping them down!) and I find it all a bit odd. Yes, if you're trying to do something OTT, like put an extra 2 floors on a 2 bed semi, then that's fine, but telling you that you can't put a satellite dish up, or you can't change the colour of your front door - on a house you OWN! How bizarre.

Even now, in our housing association bungalow, there's nothing we cannot do... (within reason,) except run a business from our home. We can alter anything. We have removed the front gates, put a satellite dish up, chopped 3 trees down, put flooring in the loft, put built-in shelves inside the house, changed the fire, and altered some other things, and the H.A. don't care. As long as we look after the house, they don't mind what we do (within reason.)

This bungalow is a 1970s one though. Maybe covenants are things that are more normal on newer homes.

ilikewatch

Lily-Rose wrote: »

This bungalow is a 1970s one though. Maybe covenants are things that are more normal on newer homes.

My 1904 house has covenants that prevent me (from memory) from "keeping swine, cockerels or foul beasts" or "running a tannery or other obnoxious industry", covenants are obviously pretty effective since well over a century later I'm not aware of anyone in the area contravening these covenants in their 6' × 10' back yards.

davidmcn

ilikewatch wrote: »

My 1904 house has covenants that prevent me (from memory) from "keeping swine, cockerels or foul beasts" or "running a tannery or other obnoxious industry", covenants are obviously pretty effective since well over a century later I'm not aware of anyone in the area contravening these covenants in their 6' × 10' back yards.

No distilleries allowed in my flat

moneyistooshorttomention

davidmcn wrote: »

No distilleries allowed in my flat

So you checked out the exact wording of that clause (and then looked up the legal definition of a "distillery") before you got going on the home brew then....:beer:;):rotfl:

dirty_magic

How old is the house? I wouldn't worry about it, ours has covenants that you can't extend to the front and you can't have caravans on the drive, but a lot of people have ignored it.

The houses aren't square at the front, but because the living rooms are so small there are a lot of people that have extended to square them off..

Kynthia

Chanes wrote: »

Wow, I'm amazed people think they can ignore covenants!

It depends what they are, how old they are, whether there is anyone around who cares to enforce it (covenants can't be enforced by anyone) and whether you can see others have successfully ignored it.

There isn't a one size fits all approach as it really depends on the individual circumstances. As you can see some people have 80 year old covenants that are ridiculous now or no one is around to enforce. Many estates have covenants that were put in place by the builder to keep the estate looking nice until all houses were sold. After that the builder no longer cares or may not even exist any more if it was 20 years ago. So a covenant in those circumstances about no vans on the drive and no satellite dishes wouldn't be enforced.

robatwork

Browntoa wrote: »

I'm not allowed any kind of cabling down the outside of the front of mine , I'm also not allowed to change the colour of the front door , they repaint every house every 5 years

Again actively enforced

I'm not being argumentative, just genuinely interested. Has anyone ever "disobeyed" and done something hideous like run a cable down the house or painted the door blue?

I am wondering what the actual remedy for the landowner was (not in theory but in practice).