ABSTRACT
In 1998, Lucy, an insurance saleswoman from London, decided to purchase a country house in the village of Small Steeple. Finding a farm cottage with a paddock in a small private road, she offered to buy it from Giles, the owner of the farm of which it was part. The sale was completed by deed and contained covenants by Lucy, to contribute to the cost of the upkeep of the road, to maintain the paddock as an open space, to use the premises for residential occupation only and not to alter the external appearance of the cottage. These covenants are expressed to be made with ‘the vendor and the owners for the time being of No 2 and No 3 Flower Lane, being similar properties’.
