Have been offered compensation for devaluation of farm house because of pylon being close to the house and wires passing over the garden. Just wondering if anyone else has been through the process and what percentage of devaluation of the property they where offered.
Pylon compensation
- Thread starter jd2013
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Davey
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Think I'd rather not have them anywhere near the house if you still have a say? We've got pylons round the back of the yard & don't half hum when it's damp.
As for compensation I suppose you would have to show what effect it's had on the value of your property? What sort of size are they??
As for compensation I suppose you would have to show what effect it's had on the value of your property? What sort of size are they??
brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Don't take this the wrong way, but a pylon killed some friends of ours within ten years of each other, he got a brain tumour first, and his wife a decade later, they have one in the bottom of the yard, a hospital consultant who lives up here calls it pylon cancer, if you can negotiate compensation, then have them build you a house on your land far enough away from the fecking thing, they reckon it was the pylon putting a positive charge on sheep dip etc making it stick to air and inhaling it that killed our friends - he farmed there most his life and sheep dip, pen, yard were. All within 50 yards of the pylon.
- Location
- Snodland kent
Friend had one pylon leg in their garden they had a firm do the claim on a no win no fee, think they got in the region of 8k
adsy
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- West Yorks
PM sent.
blondeagadvisor
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- Warwickshire
I just posted this in the lines thread, but thought I would repost. What I forgot to mention in the other one is that the elec board will pay all sol and agents fees, so there shouldn't be any costs for you to worry about.
Elec lines generally depreciate the value of the freehold. Claiming for devaluation can usually only be claimed if you enter into a deed of grant, granting a perpetual easement for the line in retrurn for compensation. There are basis for this compensation which include taking in to account an annual rental payment which is capitalised in to a lump sum, a value for the depreciation in value for the house because the lines are now there, devaluation in sporting rights, any other matters that affect the freehold value, for example, not being able to erect buildings near the lines. In the case of Naylor v Southern Electricity Board 1996 £4,000 was awarded for the devaluation of the house due to over sailing power lines. The compensation calclations are quite technical and require the use of the valuation tables, I would suggest seeking prof advice to maximise the amount of comp you receive.
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Buga me an advisor that makes sence! Do you cover west wales?!?
Regretfully have no choice, they were put in in grandfather day but no payout was made. They are 33000 pylons. They do hum in the damp and howl in the wind. If we were to sell and the were a choice of mine and an identical house with out pylons, the compensation value should be the difference needed to persuade someone's live under them.
blondeagadvisor
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- Location
- Warwickshire
Always happy to chat through things if something comes up you want to discuss- but probably a bit far for a site visit!
- Location
- Yorkshire
We have just received a circular from Ferguson Broadbent in Corby, offering consultancy advice in relation to compensation payments for pylons. As mentioned before, it means ending the wayleave agreement and setting up a Deed of Grant, which they seem to think has no obvious drawbacks. Has anybody done this and does anybody know anything about Ferguson Broadbent and how reputable they are?
Walterp
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
We received £100,000 from Western Power a few years ago for devaluation of a building plot on a farm due to overhead wires (rather than the pylon) being within their guideline distance (I think it's 30 metres?).
Very straightforward, just:
1. appoint a good valuer, and;
2. find out the discretion limit on the utility's wayleave manager's negotiating powers (which, in our case, and by a huge coincidence, was £100,000) and;
3. MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T CAPITALISED THE RELEVANT WAYLEAVE.
Very straightforward, just:
1. appoint a good valuer, and;
2. find out the discretion limit on the utility's wayleave manager's negotiating powers (which, in our case, and by a huge coincidence, was £100,000) and;
3. MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T CAPITALISED THE RELEVANT WAYLEAVE.
I know Mark Ferguson he lives locally to me and I could definitely recommend.
Just as likely to be the dip without the pylon factor I'd say.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Thanks..... claiming compensation relies on capitalising the wayleave, which makes me rather nervous.
aye ok are you an idiot ?
brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Feck you, I know what I saw and heard, and watched a family friend and his wife die the same horrible death less than ten years apart.
i dont doubt what you saw or heard,but death by pylon is the same as little green men on the moon.you do know folks have a career of painting them and they only switch the power off on one side.
- Location
- Yorkshire
I had a friend who was an intensive care nurse. She said that the medical profession were aware of the connection between power lines and cancer cases.
brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
I do know, a mate got a shyte load of the paint, but they don't live under them 24/7. This specialist doctor reckoned there were certain variables that made it worse, position of house, area, and what it's on, in our friends case it was on rock.- edit- don't get the cream coloured buffer coat of they pylon paint on you, unless you like wacko jacko want to permanently change colour.
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