Battle to ban 'unsightly' satellite dishes to be addressed by city council
HOMEOWNERS with "unsightly" satellite dishes could soon be facing legal action.
The number of dishes in The Avenues and Pearson Park area of west Hull has increased so much over recent years, the city council is now looking at addressing the issue.
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Sally Beavis, of Victoria Avenue, has a satellite dish at the back of her house.
The Avenues and Pearson Park Residents' Association has been battling the problem for about a decade, claiming the dishes are not in keeping with the area.
Chairman Stephanie Wilson said: "We have been trying for years to alert people to the damaging aesthetic potential of wrongly-place satellite dishes."
In conservation areas, residents are supposed to apply for planning permission to place a satellite dish on the front of their house if it is visible from the road.
An assessment on the front of houses revealed there were 77 dishes: 18 in Marlborough Avenue, 12 in Park Avenue, 9 in Westbourne Avenue and 29 in Victoria Avenue.
A similar survey in 2001 found there were only 31 dishes.
Now the issue is to go before a Hull City Council planning meeting, on Tuesday.
Councillors will be asked to look through options for the satellite dish problem.
Dee Mills, who lives with her three daughters in Victoria Avenue, says people don't have a choice.
The 32-year-old, who has a satellite dish on the front of her property, said: "I think it would be nicer if they weren't on show, but it's one of those things.
"With the trees in the way, you have to have them where they can get a signal.
"It doesn't bother me. I think there are more important things to worry about."
Planning officials are now putting together some wording on the legal issues surrounding satellite dishes.
This will be published in a residents' association newsletter which will then be circulated throughout the neighbourhood.
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by SPIKED, EAST YORKSHIRE
Friday, September 10 2010, 7:41AM
“Satellite dishes may be a problem, but a far far more unsightly problem is Wheelie Bins placed in the front of people's houses. Many parts of Hull and the East Riding look like a refugee camp with the scruffy mucky bins outside on view to everyone passing by.”
by Avenues, Resident
Thursday, September 09 2010, 9:56PM
“Mind your own damn business. If I want a satellite dish the size of Jodrell bank, then I'll bloody well have one. Keep your nose out of people's private business, you pathetic bureaucrats”
by dont live in, the past
Thursday, September 09 2010, 9:53PM
“i hope these do-gooders that want the dishes removed dont have
a tv ariel on the roof
any sort of gas flue sticking through the wall
i hope the only have very limited electrical point in the house
no modern conservatories
the list could go on but all those houses never had any of it so modern day living isnt in keeping with those houses .
there is an answer if you have to remove them which will include mounting them at the rear of the house on a long pole above the gutter so that they can face the correct direction
ive drove down those avenues plenty of times and cant say ive noticed any
get a life you narrow minded fools”
by Hull, Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 9:04PM
“Is Hull a Working Class city? I went to Walton Street market the other week and I saw people shoving hotdogs and burgers into their mouths at 9am in the morning!!!!! Lost count of all the young, overweight mothers pushing prams about. Had to cringe at the junk for sale by the car booters, things like ripped jumpers, odd socks and stained T-Shirts (should be recycled, but will probably end up in landfill) But hey, if there is a market for it..........
Hardly something that is going to entice US, Japanese and European tourists to a city that had hopes of being UK City of Culture 2013!!!! Now I swear if the council offers punting rides up the river Hull that would divert some of the tourist ££££ from Oxford and Cambridge, Hull could call itself a Middle Class city then.”
by Mike, Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 7:52PM
“The fishing industry was one of many that built that this city. Undoubtedly a very important part of Hull's late 19th/early to mid 20th century boom years, but the vast wealth it generated for shipowners, merchants, skippers and administrators took them as much out of the 'working class' category (if you really need to pigeonhole people) as textile barons in Lancashire or Midlands car manufacturing executives.”
by Hull, Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 7:29PM
“Err, well I would say Hull is a Working Class (WC) city, considering it was built on the fishing industry, a WC job by any standards. When that closed down the life blood of the city was killed off, thus why it is so poor now. Moreover, the area is still known for a relatively strong manufactoring base (caravans, Smith & Nephew, Recketts) again, traditional WC jobs. As for the people, overweight, heavy smokers/ drinkers, teenage pregnancies, unemployment, uneducated. Hardly traits of a city with a large, healthy, educated Middle Class (like Cambridge, Reading, Oxford, Bristol, Brighton etc).
As for meaning of this report, the residents are trying to stop the slow decline of an historic and important part of the city, before it desends into other parts of Hull that have long been brainwashed by the insidious intrument of Murdochs Media Empire, SKY TV.”
by Mike, Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 6:30PM
“'More skills than a hundred penpushers'
I was born and raised in Longhill, and I know that inverted snobbery is pathetic and ignorant.
Treat people as you find them. Idiot.”
by Working class man, More skills than a hundred pen pushers
Thursday, September 09 2010, 6:03PM
“Hull, Hull, ,what is the meaning ? maybe you could explain to the underclasses ?.”
by Baron Von-Hessleink, Kingston-upon-Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 5:57PM
“"Hull is a Working Class city"
No it isn't. It doesn't 'belong' to one perceived notion of 'class' any more than any other. The Hull area is home to people of all different backgrounds with different values and different principles, and I don't believe this satellite dish issue is restricted to just one group of people anyway. It's just common sense that if we want a more attractive city for everybody there should be certain standards to be adhered to.”
by Hull, Hull
Thursday, September 09 2010, 5:04PM
“Seen the news today? Yep, Hull is gonna come bottom or thereabouts when these spending cuts start. Guess what they use to measure the resilience of the area? The number of professionals to the amount of green space. Those so-called 'great' residents of Hull who concrete over their gardens are letting the area down!”