These sort of covenants have been in residential housing schemes at least since the thirties and the expansion of Metroland. Frankly while they serve a purpose in extremis they're a throw back to when owner occupation was the preserve of the salaried middle classes. Keeping fowls (or pigs), having a signwritten van or, heaven forfend, carrying on a trade or profession other than Doctor, Architect or similar would be thought to lower the tone and make life intolerable. Those chaps might even want to join the cricket clud!!

Nowadays, or at least until the 'crisis' bit owner occupation is the norm. Our local estate built for bank clerks, teachers etc is now occupied by people in all sorts of trades.

In a rational country we'd have had a Residential Property (Regularisation of Restrictive Covenants) Act thirty years ago to sort this out. But as we don't we havn't !!!!

Edited by Bromptonaut on 30/01/2013 at 14:35

Didn't that question of you and its got nothing to do with me wanting to get on peoples wrong side its got to do with the fact that I own three cars one van and have a garage yet still manage to keep all my vehicles of the street its got do do with the fact that people are taking up to much room when if they organised themselves could leave room for the people who dont have on street parking.

every 50 years there are parking spaces for 2 or 3 cars

He probably meant meters (could be either gas or electric).

;>)