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Unauthorised
Satellite Dishes: As a result of
the recent cessation of cable
services in Aberdeen the City
Council is aware that satellite
dishes are in some cases being
installed without planning
approval.
Residents who
have not satisfied themselves
that planning approval has been
granted or is required should
reject dates for installation of
such dishes given by
suppliers.
Where installed
without a necessary approval,
satellite dishes are liable to
enforcement action requiring
removal and reinstatement at the
property owner's expense. Owners
are also likely to experience
difficulties and delay if they
attempt to sell their property
without approvals.
Generally
speaking planning approval is
required if a satellite dish is
installed:
* where there
would be more than two dishes on
a building divided into
flats.
* where there
would be more than one dish on a
building divided into flats or in
its garden.
* in a
conservation area where a
building is divided into flats or
in its garden.
* in a
conservation area on any wall or
roof facing a road (including
back lanes) of a house not
divided into flats.
* anywhere on a
listed building.
* where it would
be on a flat roof or above the
ridge line of a pitched
roof.
* where it would
not be sited so as to minimise
its effect on the effect of the
appearance of the
building.
* where the dish
would be more than 90 cm in any
dimension.
Specific advice
as to the need for planning
permission in any particular case
can be obtained by filling in the
Council satellite dish
questionnaire available on the
City Council website, or from the
Planning and Strategic
Development Department (telephone
523470). Planning application
forms are available from the same
source.
Where a property
is a former council house (house
or flat), landlord's consent is
also required. Where a property
is a former council house or
council flat, superiors consent
is also required.
Further
information about landlord's and
superior's consent is available
by telephoning the Environment
and Property Department on
522374.
Design Guidance: This information
can only give you brief guidance.
Staff in the Council's Planning
section of Aberdeen City Council
are will to discuss with you any
specific proposals you may have.
You are recommended to contact
them as soon as you start to
think about building any
extensions, alterations, fences,
sheds, garages or similar
buildings.
This information
provides guidance to householders
living in the new village of
Kingswells who wish to alter or
extend their houses or erect
freestanding buildings in or
around their gardens. The Council
intends that this advise will
help householders obtain planning
permission quickly and
easily.
Because of a
special direction made by the
Secretary of State for Scotland
planning permission is needed at
Kingswells before any extension
or external alterations are
carried out and before any
building or structures are
erected in or around a private
garden. The direction was made
because the area has special
amenity value and lies in open
countryside. Its sensitive
location was recognised by the
emphasis placed on good quality
design and layout when planning
permission was granted.
A
master plan and guide have been
prepared so that a high standard
of design layout can be achieved
and to emphsasie that suburban
type housing layouts are not
acceptable.
The following
design principles should be
followed:-
- all extensions
should appear as though they
were part of the original
house.
- building
design should reflect the
character of traditional local
buildings.
- roofs should
normally be pitched at 40
degrees or more.
- all wall and
roof materials should normally
match those of the existing
building
- other
materials such as granite
masonry, concrete facing block
or granite chip dry dash will
often be acceptable depending
on particular
proposals.
- smooth white
rendering and concrete facing
bricks are not
acceptable.
- timber weather
boarding should be dark
stained
- no barge
boards shall be
permitted.
- garages should
either form part of the house
or be designed with pitch
roofs.
- porches and
outbuildings should have
pitched roofs.
- fences should
not be horizontally boarded or
railed.
- external
finishing material s lying on
the same plane should not be
mixed.
- as a general
rule no extension should
project forward of the main
front wall of a house.
- no wall, apart
from a gable wall, should
exceed the height of the eaves
of he existing house.
- dormer windows
should be as unobtrusive as
possible with windows as ends
of the dormer.
They should not
be constructed:
- off the walled
or gable wall.
- so that they
extend to or above the ridge
of the house - in detached
properties, extend to within
one metre of a gable
wall.
- so that they
cut the hip of the
roof.
You may live in a
quiet road where cars and
pedestrians share the same
surface and there are no
footpaths. Such roads allow a
more intimate atmosphere to be
created. This means, however,
that electricity and telephone
cables and water and gas pipes
which normally run under the
footpaths instead run through
your garden in a strip between
1.5metres and 2metres from the
edge of the road. If they do, a
layer of open concrete slabs will
have been laid within this strip
just below the surface of your
garden. As these slabs prevent
damage by heavy vehicles which
might override the kerb, it is
important that they are not
removed. Please do not plant
shrubs, heathers or trees or
construct rockeries in this strip
as they may have to be removed to
allow access by the service
authorities. For the same reason
planning permission is unlikely
to be granted for the erection of
boundary wall, fences or railings
on this strip.
Service Strip
(marked between arrows)
(Information
reproduced by kind permission of
Aberdeen City Council)
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