Parking a caravan on an unadopted/shared access road

shoe*gal_2

Strider590 wrote: »

Sounds like one of those god awful streets where nobody is allowed any individuality and cannot even plant stuff in their front garden.

A friend bought such a place, he actually has instruction to mow the front lawn so that it has lines at 90 degrees to the road and it has to be done at least once a week between certain dates. I'm fairly certain there was something about keeping ones car clean too.

It's not that bad - my car is filthy and will stay that way until its service next week. I have no intention of cleaning it .

The deeds state things like a shed can't be visible from the main road, trees and bushes can't be above a certain height, you need permission to build a conservatory, nothing can be added to the property that is not in keeping with the rest of the estate, nothing can be added before the road is adopted such as a fence, you can't have a satellite dish on the front of the house etc. It's one of those small estates with the upgraded everything to differentiate it from the main estate further along by the same builder and an excuse to charge more. We got a stonking price on it because the previous buyers pulled out with financial issues and it was the last unsold house. Even our previous 20 year old house had ridiculous clauses such as trees couldn't be higher than 2 feet (!) even though the builder planted them and you couldn't have a visible conservatory or shed.

shoe*gal_2

craig1123 wrote: »

Would the caravan restrict access for an ambulance or fire engine?

Only to their house I suppose. They'd just have to reverse out onto the main estate rather than turning round. The binmen don't go up there anymore because they struggle to reverse out again.

It's on land that's shared ownership between the five houses and each is liable for a fifth of the overall cost of repairs or maintenance. Any one of them can park on it. I'm just really interested as to whether he's found a cheat to go against the rules set out by the builders. We have - we have a Sky dish where it can't be seen by other properties despite the deeds saying no dish on the front of the house or visible from the road. It's meant to be Virgin only.

Car_54

I have a vague recollection that there's something in planning regs that may help, but don't have the time to research it at the mo.

I believe a caravan that is stationary longer than a certain period (28 days?) is regarded as a structure, and so requires planning consent.

If you can establish that this is indeed the case, then report the owner to the council.

cajef

I would think contacting the builders assuming they are the people that placed the restrictions in the deeds and asking them whether this neighbour is in breach of any planning restrictions would be your first port of call.

takman

shoe*gal wrote: »

That's what I thought - that he's been very sneaky and very clever and found a loophole. One of his neighbours isn't a happy bunny though as the five houses are equally liable for repairs to the road which now has a huge caravan dumped on it.

Then they should be happy about it because the caravan will stop all the vehicles using that part of the road to turn around so will reduce the amount and cost of repairs that it needs.!.

Jackmydad

Strider590 wrote: »

Sounds like one of those god awful streets where nobody is allowed any individuality and cannot even plant stuff in their front garden.

A friend bought such a place, he actually has instruction to mow the front lawn so that it has lines at 90 degrees to the road and it has to be done at least once a week between certain dates. I'm fairly certain there was something about keeping ones car clean too.

Where was that? Stepford?
But seriously? You couldn't make it up. I didn't realise things had got that silly.
Mind you I had a couple of neighbours at one time who thought I should be like that. They were disappointed I'm afraid.