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Bob Minchin wrote:

planning requirements have changed quite a bit
since then and in most cases, they have relaxed rather than
tightened.

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/per...jects/antenna/

Oooh I have a TV aerial, a DAB aerial, an FM aerial and a dish, better
hope dennis doesn't snitch


I've x-posted to uk.tech.digital-tv because that is where the aerial
installers hang out.

If I read the contents of the above link correctly:

"an antenna mounted on the roof only sticks out above the roof when
there is a chimney-stack. In this case, the antenna should not stick
out more than 60 centimetres above the highest part of the roof, or
above the highest part of the chimney stack, whichever is lower."

virtually all the installations I can see from my house require
planning permission because they are above the top of the chimney which
is above the top of the house.

I know my last installation at a previous house (hoisted high on an
alloy scaffolding pole and still high and proud) is well outside these
limits.

The ambiguous phrasing of
"if you are installing a single antenna, it is not more than 100
centimetres in any linear dimension (not including any projecting feed
element, reinforcing rim, mounting and brackets);"
makes me wonder if the modern toast racks you see are within these
rules.

I can also, from where I am sitting now, see a roof with two poles and
three TV aerials on the chimney (although all look so eroded they are
probably not in current use) which are all above roof and chimney
height.

Pondering further on "mounted on the roof" does that mean that there
are no restrictions if it is mounted on a wall (e.g. a gable end)?


This all looks very silly.

Odd to see the term "antenna" used here. "Aerial" is the common term
for broadcast stuff - I tend to use antenna only for radio astronomy -
in a probing sort of way.

Common usage keeps changing with living languages.

That happened with airfield/airport too.

But airfield and airport now have separate meanings.

They didn't originally.

Antenna isn't used by anyone, is it?

Yep, by heaps.

I am a licensed radio amateur.

Me too.