recently has been pulled down, an area resident who had protested its erection confirmed yesterday.

On Friday, Works and Engineering Minister Leonard Gibbons ordered Bermuda Cablevision Ltd., which had put up the dish on a former US tracking station at the top of Sentinel Hill, to remove it within 48 hours.

"We took it down on Saturday,'' Cablevision's general manager, Mr. John Greiner, told The Royal Gazette . "I will be applying for planning permission to put it up somewhere else, but right now I don't know where.'' The dish, which was declared "illegal'' by Planning Director Mr. Brian Rowlinson in The Royal Gazette on Wednesday, had been described as "big, ugly'' and inappropriate for a residential neighbourhood by St. Anne's Road resident Mr. Harley Hayward.

Mr. Hayward, who was planning to lead a petition for the dish's removal, expressed his satisfaction yesterday over Government's speedy action, adding that a number of his neighbours had been ready to join him in protesting the dish's installation. On Friday, Mr. Stanley Lowe MP had also raised the matter in the House of Assembly, saying that the dish had not been on the site a month ago.

"Given that the property was taken over this year,'' he told the assembly, "what right does anyone have to put up things on property owned by the Government?'' While the dish had been confirmed as unlawful by Mr. Rowlinson last week, he explained at the time that Government had not yet set up any planning laws to cover the former American Bases.

Claiming to be unaware of the exact date of the installation, the Planning Director also said that the soon-to-be-created Land Development Corporation, which will own the former Base, would assume responsibility for enforcing Bermuda's planning laws.