I posted some while ago to ask advice on behalf of my relative who'd got the leccy board asking him to accept a pole in his garden. (thread was called "undergrounding electricity supply")
After some phoning and a lot of to and froing, I had a long conversation with the wayleave man, and asked him "what will happen to my relative's supply if he refuses to have this new pole?" Nothing, said the man. So I asked a few more searching questions, (!) and he finally let slip that a bloke 4 doors up had withdrawn his permission for the pole now in his garden to stay there, and therefore an alternative site was needed. All the chat about undergrounding the supply was as far as I can see, a red herring. Bloke A says take the pole away, they try to get bloke B to accept it. We said no, politely. The moral is ask every question you can think of, theyre unlikely to be offering something for nothing. Thank you for all your valuable advice. Nat.