Satellite Dish overhanging onto my property!

earlofbarrett

I came home yesterday to find Sky have come onto my property (without my permission) and installed a satellite dish onto next door's house which is now over hanging onto my property and looks very unsightly every time I walk through my front gate!!

Now I know in law that this is trespass in the same way that satellite dishes are not allowed to overhang onto the adopted highway, or similar to tree branches overhanging onto a neighbor's property, and I shall be informing my new neighbors that I will be contacting Sky to remove it ASAP as their installers are clearly under trained in such matters.

I was wondering though that if Sky do not remove it within the next 7 days can I charge them storage for each day it is trespassing?

Many thanks in advance.

F_Bear

one way to fall out with your neighbours.

knock on the door and speak to them and let them know ur not to happy.

sky have access to lots of different tools to change the height of the dish so it can be put on the other side of the house

Mark_Mark

F_Bear wrote: »

one way to fall out with your neighbours.

knock on the door and speak to them and let them know ur not to happy.

sky have access to lots of different tools to change the height of the dish so it can be put on the other side of the house

Or maybe not, it has to point a certain way.

wiogs

It really depends how much you wish to fall out with your neighbours over this.

The deed is done, I doubt if the installers will care as the issue is now with you and your neighbours not the installers.

phill99

wiogs wrote: »

It really depends how much you wish to fall out with your neighbours over this.

The deed is done, I doubt if the installers will care as the issue is now with you and your neighbours not the installers.

You're very wrong. It's everything to do with sky. It's eeffectively an illegal installation.

I would write to your neighbour confirming that unless it's moved within 7 days you will remove it for them and charge that the cost if removal.

wiogs

phill99 wrote: »

You're very wrong. It's everything to do with sky. It's eeffectively an illegal installation.

I would write to your neighbour confirming that unless it's moved within 7 days you will remove it for them and charge that the cost if removal.

How do we know Sky installed it?
My dish was not installed by Sky.

How do we know that it is for a Sky box and not another Sat box?

I assume the OP can prove that people were on their property without their permission?

If the OP damages/removes the neighbours property then they could leave themselves open to a claim I would have thought.

Moto2

It's your neighbours responsibility not the installers

They will have signed off on the positioning of it [in theory] and given the installer the OK to proceed.
They should have got your permission, Sky [or any other installer] won't do that

cte1111

What do you mean when you say it is hanging over into your property? If the fixings are actually on your neighbour's wall, then I can't see what you could complain about. You surely don't own the air around your property, just the wall itself. As long as it's not preventing you opening a window, then it seems like a bit of a non-problem.

I'm not saying satellite dishes are attractive, they're not but many of us have them on our houses. Hopefully after a while, you will get used to your neighbour's new dish and the look of it won't annoy so much.

NB if they did go onto your path to set it up, then it would have been polite to ask but I would not fall out with my neighbour about it now.

System

when they came to install mine, they asked if we had permission to put it on the wall - that was it, so neighbour could have easily just said yes.
Imo this is the start of a long running feud with your neighbours, personally I would mention it to them but if you start with all the trespassing stuff it will come back to bite long term

Mark_Mark

phill99 wrote: »

You're very wrong. It's everything to do with sky. It's eeffectively an illegal installation.

I would write to your neighbour confirming that unless it's moved within 7 days you will remove it for them and charge that the cost if removal.

Not a friendly chat then?

lstar337

cte1111 wrote: »

You surely don't own the air around your property, just the wall itself.

So by your reasoning, your neighbour could build up and over in to your garden, and you would be cool with it as long as it doesn't touch the ground on your side.

It's only air right, you don't own it. :D