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Sky dishes and contracts

Evangelion
Evangelion Posts: 44 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Hello,

Quick question hopefully, am in the midst of buying a new build, which is plodding along slowly, but in the contract it states that none of the houses on the estate are allowed to have a sky dish installed.

I questioned this and they said it was prett standard. It's not in an area of natural beauty, it's in a completely urban location surrounded by houses.

Is this a clause that is policed very closely or do you think you'd get away with it if you placed it discreetly?

Any suggestions welcome!
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  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    It's a common clause.

    Policed? In some estates/blocks it is policed strongly, in others no one gives a xxxxx!

    Best advice is to look around. Are there any other dishes evident? Just one? Or multiple?
  • anselld
    anselld Posts: 8,721 Forumite
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    You would get away with it after the estate is all sold up and the Developer has left.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    anselld wrote: »
    You would get away with it after the estate is all sold up and the Developer has left.
    Hmmmm - perhaps. But perhaps not. Some freeholders/management ompanies DO enforce these clauses and make people remove dishes.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    New estates have all sorts of clauses written in. Such as parking of caravans. All to do with the look of the development before it's finished.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,683 Ambassador
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    Our house, built in c1935, has a clause preventing communication receiving devices being put on the outside of the building. Totally ignored by everyone.
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  • ellie27
    ellie27 Posts: 1,097 Forumite
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    We moved into our new build house 7 years ago and there were many clauses like this.

    The builders are still on site to this day, have been an gone a couple times in between. Everyone has satellite dishes but most folk put them at rear side of house (not sure if thats to hide them or if for better signal?)
  • stalkah
    stalkah Posts: 227 Forumite
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    Dish has to be pointing towards the south generally in a southeastern direction depending on where in the country you are.
    Can you get away with it on the back of your house?

    We're buying a new build in a rural area and the clause is no dish on the front of the house
  • giddypenguin
    giddypenguin Posts: 808 Forumite
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    We have this clause - but we are not in a freeview/cable area so everyone ignores it as a dish is the only way to get TV!
  • knightstyle
    knightstyle Posts: 7,387 Forumite
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    Just do it but if there is an objection put it on a fence or something.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,323 Forumite
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    Satellite installation engineers are used to dealing with this. When they come round, make sure you are very clear it needs to be installed in as discrete a place as possible.
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