Hi,
Speculative question. If I were to move into council housing, who would
I have to ask permission from when putting up, say, wire antennas?
I know that I need a planning permission if I want to raise a vertical
3m over the roof, but what about wire antennas for HF?
Say I want to run a couple of wires from my window/balcony to the next communal wall (or tree), who do I have to ask permission from? The
council, the housing association, co-tenants or all of the above?
Hi,
Speculative question. If I were to move into council housing, who would
I have to ask permission from when putting up, say, wire antennas?
I know that I need a planning permission if I want to raise a vertical
3m over the roof, but what about wire antennas for HF?
Say I want to run a couple of wires from my window/balcony to the next communal wall (or tree), who do I have to ask permission from? The
council, the housing association, co-tenants or all of the above?
Thanks
From your description, I assume you don’t have a garden and/or the wires will run over shared areas? That is probably going to be the problem.
From your description, I assume you don’t have a garden and/or the wireswill run over shared areas? That is probably going to be the problem.
While, in real terms, the risk is tiny, I can see the H&S freaks getting excited about your antennas ( even wires) falling and crushing someone flat ;-)
Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
Speculative question. If I were to move into council housing, who would
I have to ask permission from when putting up, say, wire antennas?
I know that I need a planning permission if I want to raise a vertical
3m over the roof, but what about wire antennas for HF?
Say I want to run a couple of wires from my window/balcony to the next
communal wall (or tree), who do I have to ask permission from? The
council, the housing association, co-tenants or all of the above?
I don't think it's a planning matter unless you were in a conservation area, so it would likely be your landlord as owner of the wall/tree. That would presumably be the housing association. Your tenancy agreement may also have conditions about what you can't do, and again if you wanted to do something not permitted you'd need to ask your landlord for permission (in writing, probably - by email will suffice for this).
If it was above the public highway, eg to a tree in the road, then you'd
need permission from the highway authority - your county council, if the road is adopted. But if it was say the car park for your block of flats then it could be your landlord again if it was private land.
If you were going above another tenant's home (eg the garden of the flat below) they might object, but at the end of the day the landlord still owns that land and can grant permission. It would be polite to talk to them, though.
The technical term for this kind of permission is a 'wayleave' and it's something phone companies do all the time, but not something most landlords will be used to.
Another way to look at it is if you're just slinging a wire round a tree you aren't making any damage to the tree or causing issues for people on the ground, and so you can easily take it down if anyone complains.
Which they might not, if it's just a thin wire that wasn't causing any hazards.
Theo
(not a lawyer or a planning expert)
I might (or might not) be invited for a viewing soon. Is this topic (especially roof antennas) something I could ask during the viewing or
better not wake the sleeping dog?
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