Piplingtoo,

You may have a cause of action against your solicitor - possibly time barred.

However, I suspect that your solicitor did refer to the covenant in some correspondence.

I, personally, was completely unaware of the restrictive covenant on my property until I got the title deeds out of the Bank to examine them!

The covenants do look a little out of date. One says I must build a house costing not less than £350 on my land!