breach of a restrictive covenant

[erictheweary]

I believe our neighbours are in breach of a restrictive covenant on their property ( storage of caravans).
Local council saying nothing to do with them as private property.
I am not in dispute with my neighbours but want the landlord to comply with the same rules as the 100's of other houses on the estate ( and remove the eyesore).
So, who would enforce such a thing?

[evilmags]

Don't even go there. Neighbour disputes are a nightmare and take ages to resolve (speaking as someone in the middle of one). Once you report a neighbour to the police/authorities you have to tell any perspective buyer about it, effecting your property value negatively. I would also make sure that they are not travellers becuase if they find out you reported them your life will be hell.

[Sporky_McGuffin]

Just set fire to it. Job jobbed.

[fatherjack]

(prior to any exasperated post from Fretmeister)

It's an agreement between two people to do (or not do) something. Unless the covenant itself was created at the insistence of someone else, e.g. there's a condition of planning permission for the development that requires the developer to include such a covenant, it's a private matter between the two parties involved.

[loverocker]

You have to find the beneficiary of the covenant. Might be detailed in your home's deeds. Then get them to enforce it, if they can be bothered. Or if you can find them in the first place.

Synthesising the first two suggestions in the thread: sneak out at night and put a "Free caravan - help yourself" sign on it and maybe the local travellers will do the job for you.

[fretmeister]

It's been about 15 years since I did any land law at all.

Can't remember!

[erictheweary]

Cheers. Read a couple of other things also.

So, I could contact Barratt Homes and ask them to enforce the covenant on a property they sold in 1973 or take legal advice to pursue a complaint against my neighbours in which I would have to prove the breach impacts upon me and have to tell perspective buyers of my house about it for ever more.

Feeling I am stuck with looking at a caravan that looks like it was dragged out of a swamp from my living room window for evermore. As far as I can work out it belongs to the landlord who is storing it there and not the tenants so the caravan might outlast them.However, we live on a hill and I'm sure caravan brakes are prone to rusting through....

[evilmags]

Go to the BNP web forums and post a rant about the "Pikeys next door". Give the adress and wait for 200 skinheads to decend on them. Is the property leasehold or freehold BTW?

[erictheweary]

Go to the BNP web forums and post a rant about the "Pikeys next door". Give the adress and wait for 200 skinheads to decend on them. Is the property leasehold or freehold BTW?

Are they interested in Romanians next door? Beginning to look like a viable alternative.Whilst the skinheads where there I could give them flyers for our next gig (you don't always get the most hibrow audience playing in a ska band).

Freehold.

[LoFi]

you don't always get the most hibrow audience playing in a ska band).

True - the band I used to play with had a pretty good crowd normally, but on the couple of occasions we were booked as part of a "night" with other ska bands, the crowd looked like an NF rally.