Demand for Wayleave for fibre broadband cable installation

[Exfarmer]

I woulnt think they would have to close the road to dig down the verge with a mini digger this is a 20 car a day road

Oh you innocent, if they dont close the road they will need a licence, traffic lights tickets for working in the environment, your field is a lot cheaper option.
Besides what else is down that verge?
BT hit an electric cable down the road from us . The power was down a week generators were supplied all round. The road was closed. I bet it cost BT 50K for what took the DBO an hour to repair when they got round to it

 

[Henarar]

Maybe not but traffic management would still be necessary, they would have to do it by the book with the required paperwork in place.

The main of the way they are going down the verge so they will have to sort that anyway

 

[RhysT]

Need to think ahead too, some of the old electric wayleaves allow you to ask for them to be moved
at some point in future. Be a pain if a housing developement was stopped because of a cable

We’ve got a planning permission for 2 houses on one field, one plot is undevelopable due to a main sewer running under it.

 

[cattleman123]

The main of the way they are going down the verge so they will have to sort that anyway

Digging down the side of the roads up our way...Iknow that one road is breaking up after they dug up right beside the road..the road is sinking into their uncompacted channel

 

[Henarar]

Digging down the side of the roads up our way...Iknow that one road is breaking up after they dug up right beside the road..the road is sinking into their uncompacted channel

we have been looking on the tintinet and it seems they are good at doing the job wrong

 

[cattleman123]

The main of the way they are going down the verge so they will have to sort that anyway

Another problem I forsee with these twits is that they are all eyes...and send their mates back in the evening for the treasure...think about it..perks of the job

 

[Henarar]

Another problem I forsee with these twits is that they are all eyes...and send their mates back in the evening for the treasure...think about it..perks of the job

I wouldn't like to say that but you never know
we had a water main go through a few years ago and the lads that done that were good as gold, it still looked like the somme though but at least we knew where we were with the water lot

 

[Andy26]

Gigaclear layed Fibre past the Farm today, feel very lucky to have it as currently use a 4g router on EE (BT ADSL is about 1.5Mb down/0.4 up, but was so unreliable). So to be able to have a symetric 1GB connection will be a revelation. The contractors laying the cable have been very good thus far.

 

[Henarar]

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Gigaclear layed Fibre past the Farm today, feel very lucky to have it as currently use a 4g router on EE (BT ADSL is about 1.5Mb down/0.4 up, but was so unreliable). So to be able to have a symetric 1GB connection will be a revelation. The contractors laying the cable have been very good thus far.

Your lucky they were going PAST the farm

 

[steveR]

Why not just make them run it along the road verge? No wayleave, planning restrictions, etc for you; easier access for them cos it's right next to the road! You said it was only about 100m further for them, so why are they trying this on?

Because Highway Authority charge a mint....! True :-(

 

[Henarar]

Because Highway Authority charge a mint....! True :-(

The verge most likely don't belong to them

 

[steveR]

The verge most likely don't belong to them

It is most unlikely that it doesn't!

I was in negotiations last year with a now defunct proposal to erect a massive solar farm about 3 miles away and they were looking to connect to the 132kva overheads on my land. One thing that Company was VERY keen to avoid, was using highway verges if at all possible, as the cost/ linear metre was steep...

The closure Orders are steep, as are the stupidly onerous regulation that have to be followed. The other side of the hedhe is preferable every time ;-)

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Out of interest, anyone know what’s the cost to utilities for wayleaves per lineal metre on verges?

 

[steveR]

Out of interest, anyone know what’s the cost to utilities for wayleaves per lineal metre on verges?

Sadly, I cannot recall what our solar farm installers were charged...

The Utility looking at installing the infrastructure for the abandoned project would get close to highway figures costs, purely for the ease of install...

 

[marcusthehat]

And yet here, local to us, in Co Antrim, after protracted, but unsuccessful negeotations with various landowners, ourselves included, a wind power installer choose to route their cable, mostly underground, via the road network.
mth

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

actually they can perfectly well go down the verge for most of it but its about 100m longer run for them, of Corse this is one hell of a lot of money for them when you consider the huge government grants these firms are getting for this job, they are not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts and no doubt will end up far better of from it than I will ever be

Have they outlined in the letter the route they plan to take and how long the run on your property is?

 

[Andy26]

Your lucky they were going PAST the farm

We too had the same wayleave letter as they have laid or are about to lay circa 800m of Fibre on the Farm (of no benefit to us as we could be served from the main cable being laid in the major trunk road that splits the Farm).

After much persistence we got a surveyor from Gigaclear to do a site visit and we agreed a route that would cause as minimum disturbance as possible both during installation and in the future. There is a clause that they will move it if development requires.
It is a major asset having Fibre to the premises, are you getting a connection @Henarar ?

 

[Henarar]

Yes

Have they outlined in the letter the route they plan to take and how long the run on your property is?

 

[Henarar]

We too had the same wayleave letter as they have laid or are about to lay circa 800m of Fibre on the Farm (of no benefit to us as we could be served from the main cable being laid in the major trunk road that splits the Farm).

After much persistence we got a surveyor from Gigaclear to do a site visit and we agreed a route that would cause as minimum disturbance as possible both during installation and in the future. There is a clause that they will move it if development requires.
It is a major asset having Fibre to the premises, are you getting a connection @Henarar ?

Not at 500 quid to connet and 40 quid a month we won't
We already have broadband as does everyone else round here it works well enough and is 10 quid a month

 

[Andy26]

Not at 500 quid to connet and 40 quid a month we won't
We already have broadband as does everyone else round here it works well enough and is 10 quid a month

Don't forget you can cancel your BT landline and use Voip for your landline. So the differential over BT line rental and basic broadband is approximately £15/month.

As for the connection fee its usually half what you've quoted, speak to a Gigaclear wayleaves officer and you could likely find that waived.