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Buying house with restrictive covenant "a single dwelling house"
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Sorry, that is autocorrect! It says house.
The intention of the covenant was probably to prevent you developing the site by building another house or converting a barn, or more likely giving you permission to do so upon a payment for the uplift in value.
It comes back to it looking like there is nobody to actually enforce the covenant but in any event the indemnity policy should cover any existing breach.0 -
It reads to me more as a restriction to residential use - if it was to prohibit subdivision then it would (I think) have to specifically say so, not just be implied by the fact they used the singular.0
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and yet there is a barn on the property which, being unconverted, suggests farm use........It reads to me more as a restriction to residential use - if it was to prohibit subdivision then it would (I think) have to specifically say so, not just be implied by the fact they used the singular.
It would help if the OP provided the full wording of the covenant including context, rather than just selected limited extracts.0 -
and yet there is a barn on the property which, being unconverted, suggests farm use........
In some parts of the UK, the word "barn" is used for a general storage building, rather than exclusively for an agricultural or ex-agricultural building. I have even heard small coal stores, referred to as "coal barns".If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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