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Having spent a few hours going round in circles deliberately designed to sap you of any sense of achieving your goal. Thought I'd ask the experts.
How can I speak to a human about poles etc? Got a letter saying they were doing work but basically the house is used as a pole. Wires attach to SE corner and track round to NW corner. Now not so bothered about the pittance of a payment but there's old wires there and damage being caused to pointing. I'd like all wire that are snipped at each end removed and the damaged pointing made good. I managed to peak to a sub contracted sub contractor but they knew nothing of the job so..... Over to stw. Any help?
Scotland and BT/openreach.
You may as well shoot yourself in the head now as try and speak to/get any help or sense out of Openreach.
Find a local solicitor, Open Reach/ Scottish Power are a lucrative target for them at the moment; especially around Wayleave compensation. I had a decent result recently over a pole on my property that they didn't realise existed.
We had an issue with a wayleave that was granted by the owners in the 1960’s. It’s frightening how few rights the contact signed by the then owners leaves us as the fourth owners since then in terms of access etc. It got to the point that we would gladly pay to rid ourselves of the wayleave, but we were told that we have little to no chance.
Good luck
Welshfarmer is pretty much on the point there. BT/Openreach really couldn't care where their cables are, they are a nightmare for tree work.
Best bet is some form of 'accident' that cuts then all from your house in the hope they decide it's easier to just shove a pole somewhere there instead.
Power networks are quite the opposite and very forthcoming with help for free.
Now not so bothered about the pittance of a payment but there’s old wires there and damage being caused to pointing. I’d like all wire that are snipped at each end removed and the damaged pointing made good.
Check the wording of the wayleave, does it mention any liabilities for damage, leaving old apparatus etc
Then letter before action to company secretary
Also Scotland with a pole on property. Got somewhere by refusing them access to do work they wanted until they provided me with a copy of the wayleave and a named contact with which to discuss it. That wasn't just being grumpy - what they wanted would have made a bit of a mess of the garden and I wanted to check the limit of their entitlement.
Then it turned out that the wayleave was granted after the area became a conservation area, which means it shouldn't have been granted. And of c. 3 dozen lines only 6 are live. And that I have a right to terminate the wayleave but so far they can't point me to anything which requires me to pay any compensation to them for doing so.
They've gone quiet but it won't be long before they'd had long enough to make the case and I'll be terminating the wayleave.
Our neighbours had a pole and terminated the wayleave so Openreach connected us to a pole much further away with the drop wire running through a tree. We had two wires, fortunately the one the tree broke was redundant by the time it happened, the other is now down to two cores as a result of branches rubbing on it - Openreach are not interested at all. I think it will need to fail entirely before they care, and we'll lose the line until it's replaced. Just hoping we'll get FTTP soon and we can forget about it.
In Cambridge BT are subletting their poles to Open Fibre. OF were digging up the pavement to every house to lay a duct for a fibre to blown down at a later date. However, I saw them laying fibres to the BT poles in our street and was chatting to them and apparently they have agreed permission with Open Reach to use the old BT poles, which saves a lot of digging. If we sign up to OF they just come and han a fibre from the junction box they've stuck on the pole to our house.