Coximus
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Thats some good BS youve been spun. The precedents regarding power lines and avation are where new or upgraded lines interfear with existing or prior use.
New use makes didly diff. Its all in the utilities guidance documents. freely available from the regulators and the networks.
Its pretty simple, they have the absolute legal right to force the route onto your land if you are difficult , and to me I would read one pole on a line with one land owner would be seen as very difficult as a person, especially if your neighbour with 50 poles on 500 acres is easy to deal with and just gets on with it..... You will simply be forced into an easement, and will get a few hundred pounds compo. Ifyou run up costs by using an agent and billing them, you would be surprised how much hell they can put you through..... sudenly you need an extra pole on the next line upgrade because the angle needs to be softened,
Next time a line needs to be T off it, maybe your land is the closest place especially if theyve got the easement sorted and next door has none......
Be reasonable - I get £18 per pole for 4 poles that are in the fields, 22 poles are all £5 a year and theyre on/in a fence line without a hedge and I get £9 per pole in the hedge because I have to cut round.
I think thats 100% fair tbh. Im easy their easy. You have one pole, count your blessings , by all means ask and see you may get lucky and they may be planning some work soon and do something, but dont push, especially with just one pole on a tiny tiny bit of land - you will join many who are put through the mill for being awkward. YOu will cost them £1000s just by asking, tens of thousands if you push.
Why make an enemy of someone who has legal power to force you to accept.....
New use makes didly diff. Its all in the utilities guidance documents. freely available from the regulators and the networks.
Its pretty simple, they have the absolute legal right to force the route onto your land if you are difficult , and to me I would read one pole on a line with one land owner would be seen as very difficult as a person, especially if your neighbour with 50 poles on 500 acres is easy to deal with and just gets on with it..... You will simply be forced into an easement, and will get a few hundred pounds compo. Ifyou run up costs by using an agent and billing them, you would be surprised how much hell they can put you through..... sudenly you need an extra pole on the next line upgrade because the angle needs to be softened,
Next time a line needs to be T off it, maybe your land is the closest place especially if theyve got the easement sorted and next door has none......
Be reasonable - I get £18 per pole for 4 poles that are in the fields, 22 poles are all £5 a year and theyre on/in a fence line without a hedge and I get £9 per pole in the hedge because I have to cut round.
I think thats 100% fair tbh. Im easy their easy. You have one pole, count your blessings , by all means ask and see you may get lucky and they may be planning some work soon and do something, but dont push, especially with just one pole on a tiny tiny bit of land - you will join many who are put through the mill for being awkward. YOu will cost them £1000s just by asking, tens of thousands if you push.
Why make an enemy of someone who has legal power to force you to accept.....
