Paul Boyd usenet.dont.work@plusnet said:
*When* that fails, then try the local council. Not sure which
department, but you could perhaps find out if they needed planning
permission to install these lights...
Not normally. The lights themselves don't, so if you bolt lights onto
an existing building or existing fence post / guard tower / whatever
you probably won't need permission. If, however, you erect towers to
carry the lights, that's a building operation, and then you probably
would need planning permission (for towers and lights).
Probably.
In most cases.
Planning permission is far from cut-and-dried, however, and there's
quite a bit of discretion vested in the authority planning department,
who may have their own opinions. In some cases it's as hard to get an
authority to state whether permission is required or not as it is to
actually get the permission. Also, there's loads of special cases
(listed, aonb, sssi, conservation area, etc etc) where the normal
rules don't apply.
regards, Ian SMith
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