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Our Land Certificate (deeds) has this covenant. Ours was imposed by the building company and has other aspects like no sheds, open plan front garden etc which everyone flouts.

i was told that there would have to be a complaint made to the building company, who would have to then take enforcement action, which i would think is unlikely.

we keep our van in storage which is a pain, but we do put it on the drive for a week or so before we go to pack up, and usually a few days after we get back and so far no one has complained.

claire:-}

We put our first caravan on the side of the house, built a drive to accomodate it.

Neighbour came round and said to move it as he knew there was a covenant stopping caravans on our estate. He then went to the builder and told them.

They told us to shift it. We did.

We then parked a selection of muddy covered racing cars, borrowed from friends, on the same spot for five or six weeks while we pleaded with the builders' solictor who was adamant.

Eventually I went around the development - 12 houses - with a petition. All but one signed to say they saw no reason why I shouldn't have my caravan there.

Took it to the solicitor who was unmoved so I said: "You will take the complaint of someone who doesn't even live inthe development (we are on a corner and the complainant is not part of the development) against people who have actually bought houses off you?"

He asked me to repeat that then said: "He diesn't even live in one of our houses? Put it back then." So I did!

That was twenty years ago - our sixth caravan  is out there right now!

Hi,

I never looked into the details of this because we didn't own a caravan at the time,

but at the last property we owned ( a new build) it did say on the deeds that we could not have a caravan on the drive, it also said that you couldn't park a business vehicle (i.e. van) also.

We never had an issue and brought when we were too young to care about the implications, pleased to say we have since moved on.

Hope you sort it out

As others have said apply to the land registry for the Title Information Document this may show the restictive covenants, if not then you will need to get a copy of your Transfer, again this will show restrictive covenants sometimes in the Second Schedule.

Good luck!

Quote: Originally posted by Fat Bum on 07/6/2007

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Some covernants lapse after a certain number of years and some are not even worth the paper they are written on as they are just added by builders, but with no legal backing,to try to make houses more saleable - I don't know how you can check this though.

Fat Bum

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If the covenant is written into the deeds then the person who put it there can always enforce it if they choose to, if you tried to oppose it and went to court you would lose you accepted all the conditions when you signed the deeds and that is the end of the story. But the big thing about this is that it is only enforceable by the person or company that had it placed in the deeds so whilst the woman across the road could make a lot of noise about it and could try to enforce it, she would have great difficulty in doing so especially as there are lts of others in the same area doing exactly the same.

My solicitor tells me that, having been given permission once, and so long ago, the builder would not be able to now enforce the covenant.

He could enforce it on anyone else who bought the house tho.

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Flandersfield, hiya, pm me on frank.elson at ntlworld.com

OK. Here's what's going down:

Another neighbour of mine -who seems to have been inspired by my caravan- has bought one for himself and is keeping it on his driveway too!

We'll be "putting the wagons in a circle" to keep Indians out next!

I didn't even bother paying the £17.50 to get my Deeds from my bank's deedstore to find out about any covenants; from what you all have been saying (and thankyou all very much for your comments!), plus the fact that there are are so many other 'vans on my estate, I'm just going to take my chances and set up camp on my own darned land! If anyone wants to start a fight, they'd better set their sights real good and have a quick draw!

Y'all sleep tight now -ya hear?