Garage Conversion / Restrictive Covenant - help please

aoleks

You’re all wrong, but again, it doesn’t matter, whatever a stranger says on a forum won’t change the reality.

That covenant says absolutely nothing about you not being allowed to change the use of that garage. If that garage becomes a bedroom, what room does the covenant apply to?

The covenant in question is to ensure people don’t use a garage to store building materials or “park” a boat or any other “weird” or unwanted use, just like there are covenants that don’t allow you to run a business on the premises, for example.

There’s nothing in the covenant to suggest you can’t transform the garage into another type of room, to change its use, and as long as you comply with relevant regulations, it’s all good.

Doozergirl

You're reading things that aren't there @aoleks

With respect, you appear to be convoluting this covenant's wording with a totally differently worded covenant on your own home about structural alterations needing permission from the council as the transferor of your property.  Your very first post in these forums back in August was to ask what that covenant meant for you.  

Going back to this one: 

"No garage erected shall be used for any purpose other than for the garaging of a private motor vehicle"

As soon as you use that erected garage for the purpose of being a gym, office, utility, bedroom, shower room, dining room, play room, cinema room etc it is being used *for a purpose other than the garaging of a private motor vehicle*.  

It is an inescapable fact.  The covenant couldn't be any more explicit if it tried. 

To answer your question directly -  "If that garage becomes a bedroom, what room does the covenant apply to?"  It applies to *the erected garage that is now being used for a purpose other than the garaging of a private motor vehicle*.  

Even a motorised boat can pass the test of being a private motor vehicle so even you haven't managed to interpret what the garage isn't for if everything I've listed is fine, as long as you call it something else.   In fact, if I put a rowing boat in it and call it a "boat house", we're all good according to your interpretation.  

   

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