Planning permission - permissible height of overhead electrical supply cable

[The Wanderer]

Nice idea, but it doesn't always work quite that way, and the company can always apply for a necessary wayleave anyway.

[Dave Liquorice]

Ture enough but lawyers have to feed their families as well...

They can apply but if permission is not granted they still don't get the way leave. There will no doubt be occasions where some companies can push through the application but the circumstances would have to be such that alternative routing was more or less impossible.

[The Wanderer]

The companies always relied on a latin maxim that I can't remember, but that translated more or less as 'everything was done as it should have been done'.

The feedback I have from ex-colleagues still in the industry is that these days 'Authority' takes a presumption in favour of necessary wayleaves, where as the presumption was always against the predecessor, compulsory wayleaves.

Having said all of that, back in my day, when the industry was nationalised, we tried to be as helpful and accomodating as possible, especially when it came to 'enjoyment of gardens'. The attitude of the householder did, however, have a significant bearing......

Nowadays, the emphasis is on the bottom line of the balance sheet; you can have whatever you like as long as you're prepared to pay.