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TBF, I would say that there could be two sides to that anti buy-to-let clause. Depending on the goals of the housing association and wishes of the immediate neighbours I would reckon that such a clause could be perfectly reasonable.
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Having lived in the vicinity of an AirBnb property occasionally rented by kids who just wanted somewhere to party
Plenty of leases rule out short lets for this reason. The problem is leaseholders routinely flout the conditions of their leases. The freeholder and other residents & leaseholders need to come together to sort that shit out.
Howard
I've heard of a few but it was mainly the case that there were terms in the lease that they wouldn't give up and making that clear rather than sabotaging for the sake of it (for instance one wouldn't remove a term in the lease that didn't allow the leaseholder to rent the property out so the buy-to-let purchase fell through).