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  i dont no if im in the right catergory of forums ..i have a query in my deeds it states that you cannot have a caravan in my drive ..bare in mind now my house is now 11 years old ..could i put my caravan in my drive overnight before i go away the next day as im not sure how im going to load it up in storage ....does any one bring theres home to load up .....(im not worried about my nosey neighbour who complains about everything that everyone does and buys lol.).................

ive sat here and thought ..yup im going to bring it home the day before i go .....one of my other neighbours will lovvvee it (both neighbours fell out over a cat ..lol) ...and basically tell my neighbour ..get a life .lol ...and as it will be a saturday ..(woops council office closed) ..i dont think there is much she can do about it...roll on may1st when i can take it out ...

trish x

Ignore the neighbour and just do it. Nobody can fine you or arrest you. In our previous house we did have a covenant but nobody objected to us keeping it overnight to load up or clean.

As said above there are covenents in house deeds but they are often only put in while the estate is being built to stop it looking a mess when the finished houses are being sold.

Are the builders still in existance? If not it would cost a lot of money to take you to court by the local council. I am sure they wouldn't bother.

If you get a letter from somone threatening to take action then you can say you won't do it again or put up a fight. If nothing happens then you don't have a problem in the future.

Now if you decide to keep the van on the front then that is a different matter. We keep ours on the front but we asked the neighbours if they objected first. We don't have a covenent in our deeds.

Just do it, whatever covenant is in place the first thing that anyone who has the right to enforce the covenant ( the person who placed it there ) has to do is to ask you to remove it. Since by the time they can get round to it your van will already be gone the right to even ask for it to be reoved will also be gone.

To be honest only if the builders are still present on the site and still selling houses on the site is anyone who has the right to do anything is any action likely, so if the builders are not still on site you could park the van there for longer periods and still be fine.

My understanding is it's only enforceable by the builders not the council - that takes time and money and only matters to them when they are selling new houses on the estate. If they haven't sold them all after 11 years I'm thinking they must have gone bust!

Seriously it's not an issue just do it as others have said, you are only loading it not siting it there.