do neighbours need planning permission for sat aerial?

[petemurphy]

2 doors down they have put up 2 massive sat dishes - one far bigger than normal. are they allowed to do this as it looks ste?

[KrazyIvan]

As its not a structure, I wouldnt have thought planning permission would come in to it. However you might want to ask what porn they can pick up ?

Just out of interest how big is big?

[sinizter]

Pretty sure they are allowed to do what they want with stuff like satellite dishes (I think, as long as it below 1m diameter).

Unless they are in a large development with houses and flats or similar. Even then ... Permission is probably not too hard to get.

[john_p]

Basically yes, provided one is 100cm and the other 60cm, and it's not a listed building:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/common...

[petemurphy]

KrazyIvan said:

As its not a structure, I wouldnt have thought planning permission would come in to it. However you might want to ask what porn they can pick up ?

Just out of interest how big is big?

its a womens refuge so i dont see why they need such a large dish as surely porn is the only reason to need it!

sure its bigger than 1m will have another look

we have fibre cable on the street ffs

yes i am being miserable but i like my garden view

[petemurphy]

[Deva Link]

petemurphy said:

its a womens refuge ..

I wonder if different planning rules / laws apply as it's not a standard domestic dwelling?

I agree how these blight some areas though - houses across the road from me face South and everyone who has a dish has it nicely tucked out of the way at the side. Then a newcomer srrived and stuck a dish smack on the front of his house.

[petemurphy]

mind u if it keeps them inside rather than letting their kids run riot maybe its a good thing

[Munter]

I suspect. One is for SKY. The other is for a satellite providing TV channels in a language more familiar to some of the residents.

[Tokoloshe]

Munter said:

The other is for a satellite providing TV channels in a language more familiar to some of the residents.

You mean "woman"?

[sinizter]

petemurphy said:

Certainly looks no larger than 100cm.

[russ_a]

Looks like 60cm to me.

[Deva Link]

OP - do you go fishing?

I'm struggling to imagine how the positioning there would affect your view, and you shouldn;t be gazing towards the windows of a womens refuge.

Reminds me of (one of the few funny) Jeremy Beadle stunt where a woman said she ordered a dish thinking it was 30" and it turned out to be 30' - they brought it on a low-loader and put in the front garden, totally dwarfing the house and her husband went absolutely mental.

[B3njamin]

Not In Their Back Yard?

Disappointing, was expecting a replica of Arecibo mounted to the house.

[Simpo Two]

Nobody's commented on the socking great mast yet.

Anyway, if you can't beat them join them - sneak out one night with some coax and croc clips and load up

(after all you probably helped pay for it)

[petemurphy]

A lex said:

Jesus Christ, get a life!

It sounded like they had installed Jodrell Bank from the 1st post.

sorry for caring about where i live

[petemurphy]

Deva Link said:

I'm struggling to imagine how the positioning there would affect your view, and you shouldn;t be gazing towards the windows of a womens refuge.

good point!

[Dogwatch]

Deva Link said:

Reminds me of (one of the few funny) Jeremy Beadle stunt where a woman said she ordered a dish thinking it was 30" and it turned out to be 30' - they brought it on a low-loader and put in the front garden, totally dwarfing the house and her husband went absolutely mental.

Completely off-topic but the other day I saw a puzzled woman in an shop trying to find a 12.5mm width blind as that was the measurement her husband had written down...

[cjs]

Top one looks like it is for Sky/Freesat, don't know why they needed what looks like a 60cm dish. Bottom one is 1m and looks like it is for foreign satellite channel pick up, do foreign women 'refuge' there?

[Corsair7]

petemurphy said:

its a womens refuge so i dont see why they need such a large dish as surely porn is the only reason to need it!

sure its bigger than 1m will have another look

we have fibre cable on the street ffs

yes i am being miserable but i like my garden view

You have no right to a 'view' if I remember the rules correctly.

Now if its blocking your light, then thats different,.