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An unexpected covenant in my lease

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  • julicorn
    julicorn Posts: 2,614 Forumite
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    We're not allowed to hold religious gatherings or play a gramophone loudly after 11pm. And if we want to keep a reptile, we have to ask the freeholder for permission.

    It's quite the struggle, honestly.
  • timefortea
    timefortea Posts: 328 Forumite
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    I can't have any shows, shooting galleries, mechanical swings, or allow gypsy encampments.
  • artyclarty
    artyclarty Posts: 227 Forumite
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    edited 15 December 2018 at 9:41AM
    Horses must not be kept on the property - council house built 1949!



    ... Actually as strange as it sounds, a lot of the children of original tenants still live in the street. We have a back lane and a front garden leading onto a green. When the houses were built, about half a dozen horses used to graze on the front and then their traps and food in the back yard.


    The north in the 50s was a poor place!
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    artyclarty wrote: »
    . When the houses were built, about half a dozen horses used to graze on the front and then their traps and food in the back yard.


    The north in the 50s was a poor place!
    Sounds quite nice.

    I remember the deliveries by horse & cart in London in the early '50s and the rag & bone man's cart later than that.
  • elsien
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    Freehold property had a covenant which said we couldn't take a horse and carriage down the drive.
    It also said a business couldn't be run from the property, which came as more of a surprise as parent had turned it into a nursery school several years previously. Solicitors paid up the indemnity insurance for that little oversight.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    I'm not allowed to carry on any manufactory of soot or blood.

    I'm not even sure how one would go about manufacturing soot or blood.
    timefortea wrote: »
    I can't have any shows, shooting galleries, mechanical swings, or allow gypsy encampments.

    You might mock, but thanks to such covenants our country has got rid of the scourge of shooting galleries everywhere.
  • Davesnave
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    You might mock, but thanks to such covenants our country has got rid of the scourge of shooting galleries everywhere.
    Tell that to the thousands of pheasants currently dodging hundreds of corporate bullets in my neck of the woods!

    Still, they'll get Christmas Day and Boxing Day off, making them marginally better treated than nurses, shop workers etc. ;)
  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    supa34 wrote: »
    Can't keep chickens in garden. Only chickens. Strange.

    Definitely get a llama.
  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    Novice_investor101 wrote: »
    Can't bake bricks or boil tripe (lease is from 1895)

    What if you wanted to boil bricks and bake tripe?
  • ThePants999
    ThePants999 Posts: 1,748 Forumite
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    Dunno if these are at all unusual, but we have to:
    - let the council in at "any reasonable time" to verify that we're not running a business from the property
    - keep the gardens tidy
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