11kv 33kv underground cables in property boundary

C_Mababejive

Oh thats nothing. There are plenty of residential streets in this country that have gas pipelines passing close by running at various pressure tiers a high as 7 Bar and above.. You might even have one in your back garden or close by.

Davesnave

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Oh thats nothing. There are plenty of residential streets in this country that have gas pipelines passing close by running at various pressure tiers a high as 7 Bar and above.. You might even have one in your back garden or close by.

You're not suggesting these are uncharted, are you? The ultimate is virgin soil, but in a town, or even a village, there's little chance.

A documented potential hazard is always better than an unknown unknown.

A couple of years ago, an apparent sink hole opened up next to our digger, which turned out to be an underground 'room' 22' x 8'. It was an old, unmapped reservoir; just the sort of thing you don't want the BCO or local historans to spot! :rotfl:

We got around it...

Last month, a near neighbour started work on an extension. Same thing. Unfortunately, I think it's inside the building line this time.

C_Mababejive

Davesnave wrote: »

You're not suggesting these are uncharted, are you? The ultimate is virgin soil, but in a town, or even a village, there's little chance.

A documented potential hazard is always better than an unknown unknown.

A couple of years ago, an apparent sink hole opened up next to our digger, which turned out to be an underground 'room' 22' x 8'. It was an old, unmapped reservoir; just the sort of thing you don't want the BCO or local historans to spot! :rotfl:

We got around it...

Last month, a near neighbour started work on an extension. Same thing. Unfortunately, I think it's inside the building line this time.

Oh they will be charted but that info isnt necessarily in the public domain.

Crazystar

Thanks All for your valuable replies. This is an easement placed on the property titles and the inconvenience would be that I will not be able to build and plant any trees within 1.2 metres from these cables.

I had a cable trace done and they showed me where the cables are running through in the property boundary. Southern electric informed me that they can divert these cables but I need to pay the costs.

They said they can only let me know the costs when I make a formal application for budget estimate and that would take a max of 65 days, I cant wait for that long to exchange the contracts.

We are thinking of lowering the offer considering the inconveniences faced and still not able to figure out how much lower we should offer. Spoke to powerwatch.co.uk guys who provide compensation for overhead cables and they said there is no health hazard for underground cables and asked me knock off 5k from the offered price as these cables bring some limitations.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

redux

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That's the theory - I'm not sure the practice necessarily matches up.

It's armoured cable, wrapped in non conducting steel strands and hard plastic.

The chances are, with a digger like a small JCB you'd hook it but not break it once you realised it was there. If you are that determined to cut it you might need to do it deliberately with a large wheel grinder/cutter. Not recommended.

Crazystar

Any further thoughts?

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Be thankful you haven't got this in your garden... Although it could be useful for some

Daerve

The cost of moving would be massive, particularly for the 33kv cable.

I used to work in the industry and the costs were eye watering. The cable alone costs over a hundred quid a metre and the costs of installation many times that.

I'd be surprised if you saw much change if any from 50k to get them both moved so I wouldn't be buying with that in mind.

DRP

Crazystar wrote: »

Any further thoughts?

1. These cables will definitely lower the value of the house (imo).
2. If you need to get the cables moved then you probably need to budget tens of thousands rather than thousands.
3. Given 1 and 2 , I wouldn't consider buying it unless you plan to stay there a long time and never develop over the cables, or you get a huge discount - even then, your purchase price will be in the public domain so any future buyer will likely knows that the cable issue was factored into the price you paid, will therefore want the same.

Crazystar

Thanks Daerve for the reply. I agree with you the costs would be very high as there are complexities involved. Whats frustrating is we cant find a quick quote from Southern electric to determine how much it would actually cost.