What can we do to get sky if we are told we are not allowed a dish on the house ( it’s a new build)

[Blondie1958]

We are not sure if we can get permission to put a sky dish up, as it's a shared ownership house and we have to get permission for a sky dish, but it's not allowed on the front of the house. It's been suggested we need to get a lawful development certificate but this is going to cost between £103-£206 and we still might not get permission.

any suggestions on places to hide a sky dish? Or to avoid the crazy charge.

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@Blondie1958  If you can't put it on the house then maybe if you have a south facing garden this would suffice, you can install a ground mounted dish.

[Daniel0210]

@Blondie1958 You can't hide a dish. It needs line of sight to the satellite. That's the whole point.

edit: also as it's a new build just be mindful of other structures that may be built on the estate in the future that may restrict your signal.

[Blondie1958]

@Daniel0210 We have a brick carport on the side of house and very little front garden and I think they will object even more to this idea unfortunately than the dish on the roof, hoping it might be able to go on the gable end of the house but it's all up in the air at the moment, we've not moved in yet.

[Blondie1958]

@Anonymous unfortunatley I don't think will be an option I think that will be looked at as being worse than having a dish

[fizzdisco]

@Blondie1958 

If you can hold out until the end of the year Sky are supposedly launching Sky Q via broadband, without the need for a dish. As long as you have fast broadband at your new house then you should be able to get the Sky Q 'experience' that way. 

In the meantime you could subscribe to Now TV on a month by month basis if there are any Sky shows that you simply can't live without. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Blondie1958 

It's in the nature of satellite television to require a satellite dish which has very precisely aligned and unobstructed line-of-sight to the relevant satellite cluster: with Sky that's Astra at 23.5 degrees East.  Any dish which cannot 'see' this location simply cannot function for Sky (or Freesat).

In the absence of satellite reception, the nearest current online version of Sky service is NowTV (unfortunately with no recording or UHD ).  Sky may or may not be planning to release 'Sky Q online' at some point: there's been renewed press interest in this recently, but no reliable information on timescale has emerged.

[Blondie1958]

@fizzdisco 

 Unfortunately I'm in a 18 month contract with sky so I think I'm going to get a bill wether I can have it or not , we do broadband and everything through sky , we are moved yet so I will have to wait and see what I can do once we move. My TVs are only set up to work through sky so not sure what to do yet. Thanks for the info.

[Blondie1958]

@TimmyBGood

thanks for the info

[fizzdisco]

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@Blondie1958 wrote:

@fizzdisco 

 Unfortunately I'm in a 18 month contract with sky so I think I'm going to get a bill wether I can have it or not , we do broadband and everything through sky , we are moved yet so I will have to wait and see what I can do once we move. My TVs are only set up to work through sky so not sure what to do yet. Thanks for the info.

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At the very least you'll be able to use the Sky Go app and watch on laptops/tablets/phones. 

[bob1234]

@Blondie1958A lawful development certificate will do no good as even with one it will be down to the "housing association" or whoever owns the rest to give permission.

Often when they prevent dishes being installed there is a communal dish somewhere, have you checked there isn't one.

[Blondie1958]

@bob1234 

This is my worry if I spend the money on the lawful development certificate it doesn't guarantee that I will get permission.

tberes a block of flats a little way down the road from us that is the same housing association that has a big dish on the front, so I don't know why they are making such an issue of it. 
will have to wait until we move in to sort it out I think.

[PandJ2020]

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@Blondie1958 wrote:

tberes a block of flats a little way down the road from us that is the same housing association that has a big dish on the front, so I don't know why they are making such an issue of it. 

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Sounds like a communal dish - quite different to an individual one.

[bob1234]

@Blondie1958You may have a feed from that dish to your new property and if so may be able to get Q with it if the feed does exist but not suitable for Q it may support +HD in which case this is one of the few cases where Sky will supply +HD.

I would just ask Sky to do a home move, you have nothing to lose, if there is no suitable position at the back of the house no communal dish you can cancel.

You will then have to plead with Sky to let you out of the contract cheaply, I do think it unreasonable for Sky to insist on keeping contracts if they can't provide the service and it is not the fault of the customer.

[Blondie1958]

@bob1234 

Thanks for your help