Our house is ex council and our deeds (from when the house was first sold to previous owners) state that we cannot keep any animals or birds (it also said that we are not allowed to park a vehicle on the land, yet all the houses now have drives with cars parked on them). Our area used to be part of Warwickshire (the deeds are Warwickshire) but now we come under Birmingham. I contacted Birmingham council and they said the deeds were out of date and it wasn't a problem to keep hens. Our neighbours have dogs that yap ALL DAY LONG.....so they can't really moan about our hens!!
My house is ex council as well, our flat was ex council before we bought this one,
I never had problems with our council about keeping hens or cockerels, they have even told other people that hens are allowed (AND cockerels) I have never heard of anyone being told they have to get rid of them
I dont know how true it is, but I was told, every sixth house on our estate had to have hens and supply others with eggs at a nominal cost in exchange for scraps (I wish, the law dont allow that any more)
(I wonder what a 'nominal charge would be ?)
This sounds like a hang over from the war, because so much has changed, but I have had a councilor come round and have a look around, he went away happy (I can only assume this as I never heard from them again)
Yes we do have the yapping/barking dogs and they have had the abatement letters, but I dont think the dogs read them
The council has trapped all the feral cats now and have cleared out a lot of the rats and burrows (after they were found on the 4th floor of a block of flats
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