Organization Profile

1.)  These covenants, agreements and restrictions are to run with the land included within the aforesaid metes and bounds and shall be binding upon the party hereto, its successors and assigns, and all persons claiming under them, until January 1, 1987, at which time said covenants, agreements and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten (10) years each unless by a vote of the majority of the then owners of lots included within the aforesaid metes and bounds, it is agreed to change said restrictions or terminate them in whole or in part.

2.)  All lots included within the aforesaid metes and bounds shall be known and described as residential lots and no structure shall be erected, placed or permitted to remain on any -residential building plot on the aforesaid plan, other than what is permitted by the Zoning Code of New Castle County.

 3.)  No building shall be erected, placed or altered on any building plot in the subdivision until the building plans, specifications and plot plan showing the location of such building have been approved in writing as to conformity and harmony of external design with existing structures in the subdivision, and as to location of the building with respect to topography' and finished ground elevation, by a committee composed of P. Gerald White, Wilmer Bouchelle, and Michael A. Poppiti, Wilmington, Delaware, or by a representative designated by said committee. In the event of dearth or resignation of any member of said committee, the remaining members shall have full authority to approve or disapprove such design and location, or to designate a representative with like authority. In the event said committee or its designated representatives, fails to approve or disapprove such design and location within thirty (30) days after said plans and specifications have been sub­mitted to it, or in any event, if no suit to enjoin the erection of such building or the making of such alterations have been commenced prior to the completion thereof, such approval will not be required and this covenant will be deemed to have been fully complied with. Neither the members of such committee, nor its designated representa­tives shall be entitled to any compensation for services performed pursuant to this covenant. The powers and duties of such committee and its designated representatives shall cease after completion and sale of the dwellings to be built on all lots in Lambeth Riding.

 4.)  No building shall be erected or located nearer to any front lot line nor nearer to any side street line, nor nearer to any side property line of the residential building plot upon which it is erected than the set back distances or requirements shown on the first mentioned Record Major Subdivision Plan or than as required by the Zoning Code of New Castle County which distance or requirement in greater.​​​

5.)  No animals shall be kept or placed upon any portion of the above described tract or upon the individual building lots whatsoever, except that the residents of any lot as conveyed may maintain thereon cats or dogs used as domestic pets provided that the aggregate number of such cats and dogs does not exceed three.

6.)  Without the necessity of any further reservations, all conveyances by Declarant, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the following easements which shall be easements reserved to Declarant, its successors or assigns, for the installation and maintenance of utilities, including, but not by way of limitation, gas, electricity, fuel oil, telephone, community antenna television systems, pay or cable TV systems, water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer drainage, including appurtenant structures, accessory structures, and necessary service connections:

a.) Easements over, under and along the rear six (6) feet of all such lots.

b.) Easements over, under and along the side property lines of all lots conveyed for a distance of six (6) feet from each side property line.

c.) Easements shown on the first mentioned Record Major Subdivision Plan otherwise of record.

d.) Easements for the installation and maintenance of house connections with any such utility, wherever located on a lot, but only to the extent the owner and/or operator of such utility service shall have assumed responsibility for the maintenance of the aforesaid house connections.

e.) Temporary rights or easements, necessary or proper to the enjoyment of the aforesaid easements, to enter upon lands adjacent to such easements with trucks and equipment, for the purpose of maintaining utilities or repairing the same as may be reasonable and appropriate to such activity.

LAMBETH RIDING DEED RESTRICTIONS   (Last amended 7/27/1998)

Declarant reserves unto itself, its successors and assigns, of any such easements the right to modify or extinguish any such easements without the consent of the owners of lots on the aforesaid Plan; provided, however, in the event such easements are being utilized by any public authority or public utility company for utilities, sewer lines or other utility purposes, such easements shall not be extinguished or modified without the consent of such public authority or public utility company.

7.)  A garage not exceeding three-car capacity may be erected on any residential building plot for the use of the owners and occupants of the plot upon which the same is erected. Any such garage shall conform in appearance with the architectural design of the dwelling on the plot upon which such garage is erected.

8.) No fence, wall, hedge or mass planting shall be erected or permitted on any residential building plot in front of the main house structure, except a hedge fence not exceeding four feet (4') in height. An open iron fence; a wooden picket or a hedge fence may be erected along the side and to the rear of the main house structure, provided, the same shall not exceed four feet (4') in height, except as may be permitted by the committee designated in paragraph 3 hereof or the assignee or successor of said committee. In no event shall a fence be erected beyond the building restriction line.

8.1)  No pool which is constructed or erected above grade commonly referred to as "an above ground pool", shall be constructed, erected, permitted or maintained on any residential building lot. No exterior satellite dish antenna greater than forty (40) inches in diameter, whether attached to a structure or free standing, shall be constructed, erected, permitted or maintained on any residential building lot."

9.)  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent the erection of sample houses and signs for display and sale to prospective purchasers or to prevent the use of said sample houses for display and for promoting the sales of other houses erected, or to be erected, on said lands.

10.)  If the party hereto, or any of its successors or assicns, or any one claiming under it, shall violate or attempt to violate any of the covenants herein, it shall be lawful for any other person or persons owning any real property situate within said metes and bounds to prosecute any proceedings at law or in equity against the person or persons violating or attempting to violate any such covenants and either to prevent it or them from so doing or to recover damages or other dues for such violation.

11.)  Invalidation of any of these covenants by judgment or court order shall in no wise affect any of the other provisions which shall remain in full force and effect.

 12.)  No commercial vehicle, house trailer, boat trailer or similar type of vehicle shall be parked or stored on any residential building plot in front of the main house structure, or between the main house structure and abutting street, in the case of a corner lot.  Anything herein contained-to the contrary notwithstanding, Declarant hereby expressly reserves the right-at any time to change or modify any of the restrictions, conditions, covenants, agreements or provisions contained herein so long as it shall be the owner of fifty per cent (50%) or more of the lots shown upon said Plan; and thereafter the said Declarant, with sufficient of the owners to constitute with the Declarant, fifty per cent (50%) or more of the lots in said tract, may likewise change or modify any of the restrictions, covenants, agreements or provisions contained herein.

 13.)  All easements, rights-of-ways, restrictions, limitations and conditions set forth upon the first mentioned Record Major Sub- - division Plan are incorporated herein and imposed by reference thereto.

14.) The foregoing covenants, agreements, conditions, ease­ments, reservations and restrictions shall apply to and bind only the lands included within the aforesaid metes and bounds and-in no event shall the same be construed to apply to or in any manner bind or affect any lands not included within the aforesaid metes and bounds, whether such lands are contiguous thereto or otherwise; and no owner of any lot or lots included within the aforesaid metes and bounds shall have any rights or easements whether in law, equity or otherwise in and to any lands not included within the aforesaid metes and bounds, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwith­standing.