Neighbours Satellite dish on my chimney

It is against planning - has to be on the rear or side. You might find the standard method of installing to the rear when the chimney has a better sighline to be rather ugly (a pole on the back wall lifting the dish over the view of the ridge - the satellite constellation is not flat in the sky so it doens't have to lift it the entire height) though.

Is it installed using lashing kits (wire around the chimney) or drilled in? Drilling in can cause damage, as can badly done lashing kits actually. You don't want a damaged chimney stack.

Councils do occasionally enforce against this, but they may have the opinion that its your responsibility being on your side of the shared stack.

I meant it has to be on the rear or side of the house - any side of the chimney stack requires planning. Which wouldn't ever be given.

Drilled gives an angle of "you have damaged my (shared) chimney" for further action, but this is likely to be quite messy.

Why would someone in a built up area put in a satellite dish in this day and age... no need for them anymore once broadband is available...

I had an apartment years ago. Neighbor's above put in a satellite dish... where they mounted it they allowed water in that came down through the interior walls into our apartment...

Is this a fight worth fighting ?

The OP said:

I asked him to remove it and he was less than helpful/co-operative, so I am in no mood to do him any favours.

I'd be careful starting an argument with anyone I shared a party wall with. There's one thing having no relations with your neighbour, it's another thing to have bad relations with your neighbour. Things can get very ugly, very quickly when you share a party wall. Believe me, I know.

Could always stick a flag or something else on his side of the chimney and see how that goes? 😀

100% this. If it's in any way a house you want to stay in long term then you need to figure out a way of getting on well with your neighbours.

If you removed the party wall in a semi D you'd be sitting in a big room watching TV with the household next door. Semi Ds are pretty much just one big house with no doorways between each half. You're under the same roof as another family.

So something to consider before kicking off a massive fuss. Not sure what I'd do myself to be honest, part of me wants to let it slide but there's another part of me that absolutely hates satellite dishes.

Jeez, OP, you really do love a good argument, don't you?

I'd agree with this, carefully removing and returning something from your property sounds pretty reasonable.

Satellite LNB power is max 18v and produced by the satellite box. It is entirely safe to just unscrew the F connectors from the LNB.

This is not advice on legality or sensibility!

Sky offer their service entirely streamed now (in the UK anyway - not sure here), and the Vodafone and (awful) Eir services are also entirely streamed. All of these are using their own gear and streams

If you want decent TV free and reliably you will still need a dish and aerial for the foreseeable.

Just get on with your life instead of moaning about a dish. The world won't end.

Obviously not the case in this instance, but, some folk access quite a large range of services via satellites other than 28.2e. be that via a multi-lnb setup or a motorised dish. Similarly if someone wants to use Irish Freeview TV in an area that has poor coverage, it's accessed via Saorsat with a dish pointed to 9e.

There are lots of reasons for Sat use even in an age of decent BB and app access.

Get it off the chimney asap or you will have problems with the chimney in the near future.

Make sure to plug any remaining holes.

Also check the tiles in the area where someone must have being standing to erect this.

Sky Screen is available in Ireland too but there are a (small) number of channels excluded plus there is no recording service - there is a catch up service but this is not the same thing as programmes are removed after a certain period of time. There will continue to be satellite service for some time.

I have no intent of removing my motorised or 2 other fixed dishes as i love to tinker

It’s your property , the fact they just dismissed you shows they are a wan**r.

take it down and hand it back,

Edit: did they install the dish themselves or was it a company. If it’s a company try find out tell them to come remove it.

Keep us updated please OP!

I notice our neighbour had installed their dish directly in front of my dish the other day, as in the LNB of mine is pointed at the back of theirs now, I doubt it was an aggressive move just stupidity and all my channels are still coming through somehow so I suppose Ill just accept it for the sake of the quite life...