Restrictive Covenants - House to Nursery

NeilCr

Can't see a drive for six cars being adequate given it is on a busy road. And it could be messy with parents trying to get in and out.

edgex

1920s-40s is not 'very old'

soundproofing can be expensive

it's not the parking that's an issue for nurseries (it will be assumed that's for staff), it's that all the traffic is concentrated in 2 short periods of time.

need_an_answer

I live 3 doors down from a lady that childminds and TBF its not made any difference to the immediate area in terms of parking or a huge impact on noise...but she has no more than 4 children in any one day.


OP...What number of children are you hoping to attract when fully up and running?

verybigchris

+1 to checking with the council. My local authority published guidance for new nurseries about 3 years ago and it was very heavily focussed around parking; without several off-road parking spaces for staff and for parents picking-up/dropping-off they wouldn't give permission.

elsien

NeilCr wrote: »

Can't see a drive for six cars being adequate given it is on a busy road. And it could be messy with parents trying to get in and out.

None of the nurseries round my way have parking for more than 3 or 4 cars. Staff tend to use public transport.
You do need to check with the council though, before you get much further. I suspect any planning concerns they have will rate higher than an older covenant.

NeilCr

elsien wrote: »

None of the nurseries round my way have parking for more than 3 or 4 cars. Staff tend to use public transport.
You do need to check with the council though, before you get much further. I suspect any planning concerns they have will rate higher than an older covenant.

True of my local ones, as well. To be fair the one I go past most parents walk their kids to.

But none of them are on a busy road which I thought would make a difference

Agree re planning v covenant.

phoebe1989seb

We owned a house next door to a nursery for ten years. Both ours and the nursery were large (3500 sq ft), detached, Victorian properties and we knew all about the nursery when we purchased - we'd actually unsuccessfully attempted to purchase that property a couple of years previously, (they were individually designed houses of which only three existed in the area).

At first the nursery only took 16 (iirc) babies/pre-schoolers and the owner lived upstairs. Gradually the business expanded to 30 (again, iirc) kids and she bought a house elsewhere to live in. At any one time only twelve kids were allowed in the 65' X 35' garden, but this was often flouted and became more frequent. The noise was loud.

Then they purchased the house directly opposite and numbers increased again. Throughout the day there was traffic chaos as most parents dropped off/picked up by car - often on their way to take older siblings to one of the four local independent schools. The neighbour on the other side of us [STRIKE]a dodgy, but very wealthy character[/STRIKE] actually had one parent's car wheel-clamped for blocking his drive.

The first nursery building had no parking spaces whilst the second had two - used by the owner and manager - and the road was a permit parking zone.

Indoors we heard very little despite the nursery not being soundproofed - plus we adored the house and area generally so wouldn't have moved as a result - but in the garden was a different story.

When the planning applications went in there were only a couple of objections and for the most part the neighbours (small street, only twenty-odd properties, although many, being large were subdivided into flats) didn't seem to object.