Washing lines

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We live in a new estate, we were one if the first in and have been in about 2 years. In our missives it states we can only have a whirligig washing line.

We have 2 new neighbours (moved in in September) both have washing lines with poles strung across their gardens I am 99% sure their missives are the same as ours.

It irritates me they aren't following the missives, should I leave it alone or complain to the builders. (I know this is a bit petty)

How very dare they - never heard anything like it...

In a 1930's house we once had we were not allowe to make bricks on the property!! Truly.

Here is an interesting question for you if you knew it was against the missives would you ignore it or follow the rules?

I'm a rebel, and I would hate a whirlygig, as well as being told what to do in my own garden.
I mean, what are they going to do about it? What CAN they do?

It's a different perspective. One person reads the rule and decides to do what they like and will deal with the consequences when or if they arise. Or more likely one does it and others follow. Someone else reads it and follows it. On our estate all sorts of rules. The only ones enforced are caravans being there more than 24 hours,ditto commercial vehicles and not fencing in amenity land.

:o at not being allowed to deliberately flood the ground floor of your house.

Tsk, spoilsports!

Just a thought but maybe somebody felt that the houses sold earlier (ie yours) would put people off if sporting a washing line but once all the houses sold they are no longer fussed so not in later missives. wait til the summer and if no one has had to take theirs down then go for it!

I was not allowed to put a cat flap in the wall of a first floor flat. Neither were we allowed any musical instruments in the property, except a piano. I took great pleasure in digging out my old recorder and playing it the week we moved in.

i'd consider why the original rule was there, how likely it is to be enforced (much more likely for things like commercial vehicles before all plots have been sold) and whether other people are following the rules.

Or I wouldn't buy a house with missives I thought were overly restrictive. So maybe its in your interests when you come to sell for the missive of no washing lines to be countered with the knowledge that everyone has one up.

Personally I would move - not because of the washing line but because it would piss me off hugely that the house I own is ruled by ridiculous 'missives' by somebody who has no rights to it anymore. Am I the only one to be a bit shocked that these 'missives' even exist? . So does that also mean that if you have a van for work, you are not allowed to park it on your own property? Surely that's ridiculous!

I remember when we bought our house there was something in the original deeds about only being allowed to keep up to 8 livestock in the garden - and they could be goats, sheep and pigs only - NOT cows. Is that an old version of the same thing?

I suspect you are right rhumba, the new house are at the end if a cul de sac and as our house faces their garden I don't think anyone else will see it.

I spoke to a friend who also lives on the estate about it when they first moved in and they weren't aware of it being in the missives, they checked it was in theirs too. I wonder if they are blatantly ignoring the missives or simply haven't read them

Seriously though, I wonder WHY you're not supposed to have a washing line? Is it to do with looks?

I can understand about satellite dishes as they look a bit unsightly and other things that can be a nuisance for neighbours.

A washing line doesn't look any worse than a whirly one and if you get one of the retractable(sp?) ones it can be gone in an instant!

This thread has baffled me.

I'd think fuck it I will dry my washing how it suits me. In the Grande scheme of things it's a bit of twine and a couple of sticks.

Yeah they are iaregina, we had some changed before we bought, that we're important to us. Hence why I am 99% sure their missives are the same as ours.

Some are important as they dictate how much maintenance you pay on share ground others not so much

We're not allowed keep livestock,poultry,or game birds.

What's wrong with a work van?

I would just leave them to it, it's only a washing line. Get one yourself if you want, surely no-one would complain about washing lines?

X posted.

Rhumba that's a good point.

On the note of washing lines, the line goes right across my back garden, a whirligig would just be in the corner... Maybe if they hung it perpendicular rather than parallel to my house it would annoy me less

I guess they look unsightly and/or take up more parking space, RexManning.

A lot of people I know have a car each and then have a van for business. The van isn't insured for domestic purposes so they need a car for weekends so they have two cars parked on the drive and a van parked on the pavement .

Maybe if you ignored it, it would bug you less as well?
I'm not being flippant either - stop worrying about your neighbour's washing line. Seriously.

I went to see my friend today and someone has nicked her whirly washing line out of her garden .

It made me think back to this thread.

My mother always maintained that washing didn't dry properly on a whirly line - it had to be spread out along a proper line to dry.

I would just leave it, it can't be that much of a problem to you, surely?

My friend has a condition on her house saying she cannot have more than two sheep in the front garden - she's always wanted to get three and see if anyone complained.

My neighbour has a caravan in her drive. Missives say no. No one gives a shit. Would never dream of making an issue as it is a stupid rule. Thankfully our street are equally underwhelmed by this, my neighbours are nice

I had to Google 'missive'.