Did anyone ask the question as to how much money the neighbours had had to spend on attempting to enforce the covenant?

Really sad that what appeared to have been a good opportunity to hear and understand both sides of the argument seems to have failed.

Whatever the rights and wrongs on both sides and whatever my opinions on the matter I was looking forward to hearing the objectors' side of things in more detail. Even if they'd just said, "do you know what, we just want to continue to enjoy the benefit of the covenant in its purest form and dont want or need to demonstrate nuisance to enforce it", I could respect the honesty and at least understand what was driving this.