Told to remove sky dish off new home, or court action

[_Rich_]

My brother just messaged me, he has bought a brand new house in a huge housing development. He had sky installed a couple of months ago, in which he was told the dish has to be mounted on the side of the house (by the building company) in which he has done.

Any way fast forward to today the management company that maintains the roads etc have told him it needs be taken down because it can not be seen from the road or he'll be taken to court. Also apparently they can stop him selling his house in the future.

Further info, its a freehold but they pay to maintain the roads (like i believe all new builds)


Can this be done it seems a bit petty over a satellite dish?


sorry if the above is all over the place, i'm still being messaged by him whilst i type.

[bobtail4x4]

If they put covenants on the sale yes they can enforce them,

[smighall]

Need to read through all the covenants associated to the sale and development.

[rsv gone!]

_Rich_ said:

Further info, its a freehold but they pay to maintain the roads (like i believe all new builds)

Unless the road has been put forward for adoption.

[SonicHedgeHog]

Yep, happened on my old estate. Can't hang washing on the balconies either. Just give in, move the dish and save yourself a mountain of paperwork and grief.

[_Rich_]

Wow that is bonkers, i guess its one of those thing you don't think of being a first time buyer.

[dazwalsh]

that is utter bonkers

[egomeister]

Had a similar issue with my flat. Many dishes had sprung up over the years until the management company enforced the covenant and went on a purge. To be fair they did fit a communal system, but with only one feed per flat which wasn't much good for Sky+.....

[pidsy]

egomeister said:

Had a similar issue with my flat. Many dishes had sprung up over the years until the management company enforced the covenant and went on a purge. To be fair they did fit a communal system, but with only one feed per flat which wasn't much good for Sky+.....

Very common on new build flats. Right PITA but I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.

[Sheepshanks]

Outrageous. Next thing they'll be saying he can't leave the bins at the front.

[Nano2nd]

Sheepshanks said:

Outrageous. Next thing they'll be saying he can't leave the bins at the front.

the covenant on my new build states this, though i do agree with it!

[Saleen836]

It is mainly there until the development has been completed, you will also find it states things like no parking caravans/boats etc on your driveway, go take a drive round a new build estate that has been completed about a year or 2 and most will put you off buying there.

[indigostr]

And yet in the next town to where I live a whole new estate of social housing gets them as standard fit!

[hyphen]

dazwalsh said:

that is utter bonkers

Disagree, Dishes mounted prominently look chav, gets even worse when they are the larger ones for foreign channels.

As an alternative, you can mount them at the back on a pole facing the correct way I think.

[hornetrider]

hyphen said:

Disagree, Dishes mounted prominently look chav, gets even worse when they are the larger ones for foreign channels.

As an alternative, you can mount them at the back on a pole facing the correct way I think.

You think a dish on a pole in the back garden is less chav than one attached to the fking house?

[hyphen]

hornetrider said:

You think a dish on a pole in the back garden is less chav than one attached to the fking house?

No need to swear- needless swearing is also a chavvy thing to do

Quick google to illustrate:

This won't be seen from the front:


This is not what you want:

[MitchT]

_Rich_ said:

Any way fast forward to today the management company that maintains the roads etc have told him it needs be taken down because it can not be seen from the road or he'll be taken to court.

So the management company want the dish to be installed where it can be seen from the road? Surely that makes the houses look worse! Am I missing something?

[egomeister]

pidsy said:

egomeister said:

Had a similar issue with my flat. Many dishes had sprung up over the years until the management company enforced the covenant and went on a purge. To be fair they did fit a communal system, but with only one feed per flat which wasn't much good for Sky+.....

Very common on new build flats. Right PITA but I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.

I can see why especially when new, but my place was 25 years old!

The most frustrating thing is that there seems to be no acknowledgement that these are places people live, and satellite TV isn't exactly uncommon. We had a similar thing suggesting bikes should not be brought into the flats, yet there is nowhere else they could be securely stored (much easier to ignore that one though!)

[stuttgartmetal]

Virgin

[Some Gump]

hyphen said:

No need to swear- needless swearing is also a chavvy thing to do

Quick google to illustrate:

This won't be seen from the front:

That looks utterly st.

This is not what you want:

That's a terrace house affair. I very much doubt OP had bought a new build 1920's sinkhole estate.