Dishes disappearing for a couple of days...

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All except the permitted Gibby 1.25 and a Sky dish will be hiding away in the garage while I meet the council's planning officer tomorrow about next door's loft conversion. I hope she doesn't notice the dish has gained a considerable increase in height, and changed from an SMW 1.1 to the Gibby since the install was allowed 25 years ago :eek:

Dishes to vanish temporarily are two Triax 88s and a Triax 1.1.

It's an informal get-together with the planner and the neighbour on the other side before any official objection is made, to discuss a privacy issue whereby the huge picture window in the intended conversion is going to allow an unobstructed view of every inch of our gardens.

We'll be asking for a change to casement windows instead; it'll depend I suppose what the local planning department allow here.

Hopefully the dishes will be back up when the coast is clear...
 

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All except the permitted Gibby 1.25 and a Sky dish will be hiding away in the garage while I meet the council's planning officer tomorrow about next door's loft conversion. I hope she doesn't notice the dish has gained a considerable increase in height, and changed from an SMW 1.1 to the Gibby since the install was allowed 25 years ago :eek:

Dishes to vanish temporarily are two Triax 88s and a Triax 1.1.

It's an informal get-together with the planner and the neighbour on the other side before any official objection is made, to discuss a privacy issue whereby the huge picture window in the intended conversion is going to allow an unobstructed view of every inch of our gardens.

We'll be asking for a change to casement windows instead; it'll depend I suppose what the local planning department allow here.

Hopefully the dishes will be back up when the coast is clear...
Sympathy - nearly had a similar issue last Summer when I reported a likely nearby "bed in a shed" issue and queried some building work next door. Took down several dishes including the TD110 to be on the safe side.

Now going to have to be very careful when CH & I put the new Gibby up in place of the TD110 on Wednesday - got to try keep it not much higher than the TD (and have just "camo painted" it to cover up the white/cream face which would have stood out likely the proverbial "sore thumb").
 

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Ah, you didn't say this was a covert install.

See you around midnight tomorrow, I'll bring the sleeping gas.
 

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I don't see the sense in having a huge window in our small terraced houses. The view out will be hardly scenic - no ocean vista or rolling hills. Just another row of small terraces, garages and sheds.
 

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I was under the impression that if something was installed for 5 years or more without complaints then it can stay up...
 

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I was under the impression that if something was installed for 5 years or more without complaints then it can stay up...
Yes, I had heard something similar, but can't verify if that is indeed the case.
 

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Yes, I had heard something similar, but can't verify if that is indeed the case.
Think it is the case. John here on the forum had that happen, his big dish could stay up but classed as illegal in the eyes of the planners as it had been up a number of years without complaints from the neighbours. Not sure if he then applied for retrospective permission. Sure he will confirm...
 

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OK, I'll wait to see what transpires. We've had several loft extensions and 'back garden residences' built around the vicinity since my dish was installed where it is now. It would have been within sight of any planning officer looking into those, so maybe they weren't really that interested in contacting the owner (me) to lay down the law.
 

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OK, I'll wait to see what transpires. We've had several loft extensions and 'back garden residences' built around the vicinity since my dish was installed where it is now. It would have been within sight of any planning officer looking into those, so maybe they weren't really that interested in contacting the owner (me) to lay down the law.
I don't think most planning officers go looking for more trouble than the jobs they actually go out to see (my exception being the one who came here to look at our proposed conservatory extension and then tried to force me to have one wall built at 90 deg to the wall and not following the existing boundary line which swings away at about 75 deg and not 90 deg - finally "fixed" by a crafty workaround from the architect!).

The multiple numbers of dishes on the fronts/sides of many buildings around here tend to support that theory - whereas mine are nestled down between next door's high fence & tall tree, my garage & greenhouse, a 6' fence at the end of the garden, and fairly thick hazel and holly trees (etc.) between the dishes and the house. You can't really see anything much from ground level, but only if you are looking over to our garden from the bedrooms in houses 20+ yds away in one particular direction.

Current photos attached - though that will change when the Gibby replaces the TD110

BTW: a comment from CH when he saw those shots earlier today "Your garden looks busier than my roof. " - so who else needs sleeping gas?
 

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