Permission to erect a satellite dish?!

mrsw1983

I think we'll probably just take it down then, if that would resolve the issue?

Luna9

My mother has just received a demand from her freeholder's agent Pier Management Ltd for the sum of £117.50 being the cost of a licence of consent for the installation of a satellite dish. They state that with the Digital Switchover Act of 2007, they understand there will be a desire to erect a dish and although the normal consent fee for any alteration is £250 plus vat., they will reduce the fee to £117.50 inc.vat. for requests made before June 30th 2010. Looking through my mother's lease I see that consent from the freeholder is indeed required but does this sum sound reasonable?

Richard_Webster

My mother has just received a demand from her freeholder's agent Pier Management Ltd for the sum of £117.50 being the cost of a licence of consent for the installation of a satellite dish. They state that with the Digital Switchover Act of 2007, they understand there will be a desire to erect a dish and although the normal consent fee for any alteration is £250 plus vat., they will reduce the fee to £117.50 inc.vat. for requests made before June 30th 2010. Looking through my mother's lease I see that consent from the freeholder is indeed required but does this sum sound reasonable?

Presumably this request for money was unsolicited. If that is the case then companies that actually go round estates looking for this sort of infringement usually charge a lot more than £117.50 - with some it is as much as £1,000.

Read the letter carefully. Sometimes property managers haven't been round the estate and are simply writing speculatively to everyone in the hope that some of those with satellite dishes will come clean and pay up.. Worth checking with neighbours who haven't got a dish if they got the letter too!

FTBFun

Luna9 wrote: »

My mother has just received a demand from her freeholder's agent Pier Management Ltd for the sum of £117.50 being the cost of a licence of consent for the installation of a satellite dish. They state that with the Digital Switchover Act of 2007, they understand there will be a desire to erect a dish and although the normal consent fee for any alteration is £250 plus vat., they will reduce the fee to £117.50 inc.vat. for requests made before June 30th 2010. Looking through my mother's lease I see that consent from the freeholder is indeed required but does this sum sound reasonable?

Err, couldn't she just get a freeview box?

Luna9

Richard_Webster wrote: »

Presumably this request for money was unsolicited. If that is the case then companies that actually go round estates looking for this sort of infringement usually charge a lot more than £117.50 - with some it is as much as £1,000.

Read the letter carefully. Sometimes property managers haven't been round the estate and are simply writing speculatively to everyone in the hope that some of those with satellite dishes will come clean and pay up.. Worth checking with neighbours who haven't got a dish if they got the letter too!

Thank you, but the letter is addressed to my mother. She got a letter from Pier last month warning that consent is needed to erect a dish but I ignored it thinking it was a ruse to squeeze money out of leaseholders. She has a satellite dish and Pier say they are reliably informed that she has one. They are prepared to waive the normal breach of lease fee of £500 as long as she pays the £117 by the end of the month.

darren221980

Morning all,

Im just in the process of buying a property that is 7 years old and read through the paperwork from the solicitors yesterday and noticed that we need permission George Wimpey for a Satellite dish to be installed. I've spoke with the current owners of this house and they claim they didn't know about this and no one else on there street did either (every house on this street has at least one sky mini dish installed and at least one house has two of them). They have offered to take the dish down if need be though.

However i've called George Wimpey customer care this morning and asked how much we have to pay them to get permission to have a dish installed and i can't believe the price they have quoted, £180 just to get permission! I think i'll be sticking to freeview or set a dish up in the back garden at ground level out of site!

I wouldn't mind paying for permission but at £180 its a complete joke, that £180 could pay for, at least four separate installations by a satellite engineer in Telford!

Darren

westv

Why do builders have these ridiculous restrictions? To try and make a bit of extra cash? I can understand, perhaps, restrictions in a conservation area but - everywhere else??

Thefunkygibbons

A new build is on the list, but not certain

Certainly, I will be looking hard at the clauses now

I guess the easiest thing is get them removed before agreeing to sell. However, if not, then a sunset clause would seem like a good idea

Mallotum_X

Make sure the particulars of the sale say that the dish is not included. Then if a fuss is made say it will be taken down and wasnt included anyway.