Legal advice regarding putting a satellite dish up

Gordon_Hose

spike7451 wrote: »

How does the cable come into the property?...By that I mean are the some grey boxes on the outside wall somewhere,possibly below the flats that have cable?..
If so,then it's a relativly simple task to either connect to one of the existing cable installs & running a spur line off that to your property.As for going thru the other flats to get to your's, utter tosh.They can take the cable around the outside of the property,either at low level or buried around to your side.
And actually Gordon isn't entirely correct in saying you can't have cable,the fact that the other apartments have cable & satalite points to the being an existing wayleave agreement in place.

It's up to whoever owns the building. You can't just go tacking cable to the outside of a building without the owners permission.

Buzby

Fairness is an argument for the playground. You will be bound by your leaseholder rights which override anything stated by the seller, but you could - if witnessed - raise it as misleading. Cable will not be daisy-chained from flat to flat (at least it shouldn't be). Virgin would feed flats individually from a distribution point. As Spike notes, there's not much sense coming from the cable company.

VoucherMan

Lilly1977 wrote: »

oh, as a newbie I'm not allowed to post links but I've just googled EU Law Satellite dish, interesting.

Having a satellite dish 'is a human right,' says European court
www.dailymail.co.uk

It must be true then. Problem solved. :rotfl:

hanwellmike

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

Sorry, but you have no "legal" right to a dish or cable. It is down to whoever owns the building and if he's already said no there's nothing you can do.

If it was that important you should have made 100% sure before completing that you could get the TV service you wanted.

Your other option is Freeview and top up TV. You can get Freeview HD and recorders now.

Agree 100%. It's the Landlord's right (and duty) to protect the look of the property and to ban individual dishes and aerials is the only way to go. As you have a share of the freehold you will have presumably have the right to question the current rules but you would need support from the other flat owners.