Neighbours with sofa in front garden!

boltonben

Hi

We are currently in the process of trying to sell our bungalow. The house is on a nice estate, however the neighbours (across the road) around a month a go put a 3 seater sofa near their front door! They used to have two wooden chairs there that they sat on when it was sunny, however now they have a big sofa and coffee table and it looks terrible! Is there some way to complain about this as I think it's putting people who view the house off? Surely it can't be allowed?

prosaver

Do you live in the southern states?

Guest101

Are you mad? They can do whatever they like...

boltonben

Guest101 wrote: »

Are you mad? They can do whatever they like...

I'm not mad, I'm just aware that the deeds stop a lot of things such as building walls / tree / bush borders around the front of your property, having commerical vehicles or caravans parked on your drive etc. So they can't do whatever they like.....

fairy_lights

boltonben wrote: »

I'm not mad, I'm just aware that the deeds stop a lot of things such as building walls / tree / bush borders around the front of your property, having commerical vehicles or caravans parked on your drive etc. So they can't do whatever they like.....

Is it a fairly new estate then? I know a lot of new builds do have clauses about what you can and can't do to the outside but I've got no idea who would enforce them or how. Are the houses leasehold?

Kalamazoo

Unfortunately there's not much you can do about scruffy chavs being scruffy chavs

G_M

boltonben wrote: »

I'm not mad, I'm just aware that the deeds stop a lot of things such as building walls / tree / bush borders around the front of your property, having commerical vehicles or caravans parked on your drive etc. So they can't do whatever they like.....

Unfortunately none of us here can read the deeds, so you'll have to help us out.......

Does it, for example, prohibit sofas being placed in the front garden?

Seriously, my best suggestion is that you offer them a bribe to remove the sofa until you have a buyer ad Exchanged Contracts.

PasturesNew

If it were dumped out there, unused, you might have a case of some sort if you were lucky. Or, you could've even offered to take it away for them.

As it's their choice of outside seating, it's tough really.

boltonben

G_M wrote: »

Unfortunately none of us here can read the deeds, so you'll have to help us out.......

Does it, for example, prohibit sofas being placed in the front garden?

Seriously, my best suggestion is that you offer them a bribe to remove the sofa until you have a buyer ad Exchanged Contracts.

I was more hoping that given the kind of thing that the deeds do prevent, something like the sofa would fall in there somewhere!

I think a few other neighbours have tried to talk to them about this as well but unfortunately no luck so far.

The annoying bit is that I've never seen them sit on it and given the recent weather it must be absolutely soaking wet.....

davidmcn

boltonben wrote: »

Is there some way to complain about this?

Walk across the road and knock on their door?

Guest101

boltonben wrote: »

I'm not mad, I'm just aware that the deeds stop a lot of things such as building walls / tree / bush borders around the front of your property, having commerical vehicles or caravans parked on your drive etc. So they can't do whatever they like.....

Those are restrictive covenants, they are not enforceable by you. And so far they don't restrict having garden furniture.