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Mr_Burns · 17-07-2008, 18:54

I can appreciate the misery that this sort of thing brings - there are a group of kids in my street who are a pain in the bum. Their last escapade was to try and break the LNB off of all of the Sky dishes with a football, with a great deal of success!

VM is under no obligation to apply for planning permission for street cabinets UNLESS the size of the structure is over 2.5 cubic metres (under the town and country planning act/general permitted development) - you'd be surprised how big this is. VM is, however, obliged to notify the local authority planning office of its intention to site new street furniture and its location and the authority can object to the siting of the cabinet(s). There should be consultation with the local authority highways department, too.

If there are two cabinets co-located, it sounds like the cabinets where the fibre-optics change to copper/coax cables (might not be though depending on which cable company it used to be) - not cheap to move at all, and I don't ever think that they'll be put underground.

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Mr_Burns Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wales Age: 53 Posts: 213	Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street I can appreciate the misery that this sort of thing brings - there are a group of kids in my street who are a pain in the bum. Their last escapade was to try and break the LNB off of all of the Sky dishes with a football, with a great deal of success! VM is under no obligation to apply for planning permission for street cabinets UNLESS the size of the structure is over 2.5 cubic metres (under the town and country planning act/general permitted development) - you'd be surprised how big this is. VM is, however, obliged to notify the local authority planning office of its intention to site new street furniture and its location and the authority can object to the siting of the cabinet(s). There should be consultation with the local authority highways department, too. If there are two cabinets co-located, it sounds like the cabinets where the fibre-optics change to copper/coax cables (might not be though depending on which cable company it used to be) - not cheap to move at all, and I don't ever think that they'll be put underground.