Some clarifications:

To respond to Gingernuts:
The people who own the nursery have lived in the house for over 12 years. They have only in the last 2-3 years decided to open a nursery when Ofsted changed the rules that enabled people to provide this type of childcare from their own home.

To respond to the Chairman of TLERA:
I think your carefully worded post hides the real truth of TLERA's involvement with this case.

1. TLERA contributed £200 towards the cost of a surveyor (minuted in the published TLERA minutes on 7th December 2010. - extract below:

Planning Appiications
Tony mentioned that he had received the bill from Anthony Keen and noted the TLERA donation of £200 towards the costs.
Andrew gave an update regarding the application for 5 Liphook Crescent. At the Lewisham Planning meeting on 11 November 2010 the planning committee approved the application for a nursery at the property. . . . Following the Lewisham meeting, Andrew stated that he had spoken to a resident of Liphook Crescent, who was a lawyer.
Following some discussion and investigation on the matter he stated that, in his opinion, he thought that the covenants contained with the title deeds would be enforceable under current civil law by a neighbour of the property in question.
It was suggested that an article be included in the next newsletter on the subject of covenants.

TLERA then contributed c.£60.00 towards the title searches for houses in Liphook Crescent to search for the house that has the Covenant that is beneficial over the nursery (September 2011).

I hereby request an Extraordinary Committee Meeting of TLERA and request support from 14 other members to carry this request. From this meeting I hope we can gain a full and open account of exactly what has happened here. If you agree, please post on this thread and email chairman@tewkesburylodge.org.uk

The covenant may be legally enforceable, the question here is whether TLERA and the residents concerned have acted morally in the best interests of the local community.

This post was last modified: 26-01-2012 09:34 PM by Jason.