New fibre oprtics - old school telegraph poles

Always though that was a good way to bury a body

The fibre company round here just used Openreach poles to string their fibre

Around my way I've seen at least 3 fibre companies laying their fibre in existing ducts under the pavement(s). The fibre to the premises is overhead via the local (openreach???) pole.

The new poles will be on 1970's open-plan estates, hence no existing poles and most of the existing phone cables are SWA directly buried under verges and front gardens. That's how the 70's estate where I live was 'wired up'.

Odd update ...

inspecting the nearest pole to me, it has a notice saying if anyone objects to it here's the address to write to.

Surely the time to have done that was *before* they put it up ?

Doesn't bother me, by the way, but already someone in the local FB group is complaining about it going "over" their property. It's not clear what they mean as the poles are in the public pavement.

I do not think they have much they can object about as I am sure Openreach have rights to the cable in the area above the property as long as it is high enough not to interfere with your use of the property. It’s like trying to stop aircraft flying over your property nobody owns the space above their property your ownership ends at the highest point of your property.

Outside our house on the other side of the road is a pole fed by underground cables but individual cables to each property pass over the road and in some cases over several gardens.

Does the one complaining, perhaps live on a bend, and the cables will trespass, by passing across their land?

My fibre cable passes over my neighbours front garden and the fibre cable for the neighbour on the opposite side passes over my front garden. This is common for all properties along my road for copper or fibre telephone/broadband. The pole closest to my house caries lines for around 30 properties.

Our road has electricity, phones etc fed via overhead cables and more recently fibre- even though we are surrounded by areas supplied underground.

I assume this is due to the road being unadopted. It also means the ‘other’ companies - eg Telewest as it used to be here - didn’t cable the road. We do have Fibre to the house, fed via overhead fibre, from BT / Openreach / EE or whatever they are calling themselves now. 😀

The installation was very slick.

I have to admit, I really couldn't care less ...

Three of our neighbours' fibres pass over our front garden and a fourth just misses it, but is as in view as the others. It doesn't bother us at all. In fact the only one that is annoying is our own old copper line - no longer in use, but still there ... and directly over the driveway, so birds sit on it and make a mess of the car beneath!

After I asked, I think here

Dave

Thanks for that.

It's one of those questions that solicitors amuse themselves with as part of property sales ...

Do any drains, pipes or wires serving the property cross any neighbour’s property?

Do any drains, pipes or wires leading to any neighbour’s property cross the property?

We have some power cable crossing the front garden. Once or twice a year I get a "wayleave" letter from someone who wants to help me get money from SSN. When I looked at how much I'd get, it wasn't worth the effort filling out the form.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:54:14 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk <jethro snipped-for-privacy@hotmailbin.com wrote: [snip]

I don't remember the old school telegraph poles, but I remember my old primary school toilets.

There were four toilets: little boys and big boys in one block, and little girls and big girls in another block (both in the playground). At one stage building work was being carried out in the girls' toilets so the girls had to use the little boys' toilet and the boys used the big boys' toilet. The problem was that the adjoining wall did not reach the ceiling. Some boys discovered that it was possible to piss through the gap.

You don't "fill out" forms, you fill them in.

Best is to go to the UK Power Networks website and complete their wayleave form. Then they start sending you cheques.

Maybe. Perhaps it's because I worked for an American company for over 18 years that I use "out" rather than "in"! :-)

SSEN here. I'll have a look again at their website.

It's the same difference as 'slowing up' and 'slowing down'! :-)