next doors phone line through my lawn

moneyistooshorttomention

Not OP's problem though - as, if BT cut up awkward then its the neighbour they will have that one out with and its up to the neighbour to insist the line is down under "public" territory. Alternatively, if BT are being too mean/going for easy option for that and decide to do an overhead line - then I cant imagine they would be allowed to send it over OP's garden (any more than they can send it under OP's garden) and they would have to put their pole on the pavement to the immediate front of the neighbours garden.

System

BT can overfly without wayleave or even needing the owner's permission. They don't even need to get on to the land at all to do it theses days especially as it is a small garden

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/contactus/wayleaves/wayleavesfaqs/wayleavesfaqs.do

What are "flying wires"?
Under certain circumstances, Openreach is allowed to "fly wires" over an adjacent property from an existing pole without the need for a wayleave. This permission only applies providing we do not need to enter the property concerned to do so, that the wires are at a height of 3m or more, and that they do not interfere with the normal business on the property.

DaftyDuck

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BT can overfly without wayleave or even needing the owner's permission. They don't even need to get on to the land at all to do it theses days especially as it is a small garden

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/contactus/wayleaves/wayleavesfaqs/wayleavesfaqs.do

Just out of interest, I asked about this once, and was told that "kiteflying by kids" would be accepted as a reason not to allow openreach to stick a wire across my property. Sadly(!), I don't have any brats of my own, so I'd have to borrow some.

I think it's more a right in the letter of the law, but not one they will try to enforce, if there's any objection, or any other way to do the job.

OP: I'd certainly try & avoid a cable laid under the lawn.

System

If it saves them the cost of putting an extra pole (assuming that this can be done) then they will do it. I don't think there would be much chance of kite flying in the OP's

small front lawn

As for a single line under a public footpath/road then that would be prohibitively expensive and possibly not possible due to other utilities.

onthehill

Update.

First - I should have said BT Openreach in my initial post - who of course work for various folk - and hence the problem I will come to,

First thanks everyone for your swift answers.
Having read the advice against, I decided to cancel the permission.
And there the nightmare began.
Over two hours of wandering round Openreach, despite the fact that the BT Openreach guy said that the number he had give me for any issues would get straight through to a relevant department. Of course it didn't and I was put through to a variety of robots, some of which just hung up on me when I didn't press the right buttons, even though all choices seemed irrelevant.
Eventually spoke to two real people, the second of which got really heavy with me and demanded to know who had given me the number of his department.
Was eventually told that the "right to dig" had been withdrawn but was told that I could not have this in writing.
Lucky I get on with my neighbours - they were entirely reasonable about it.
Oh, and this morning I found out that I have no dial tone - clearly the result of the Openreach engineer's exploratory tinkering.
My short advice - NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AGREE TO ANYTHING SIMILAR NO MATTER HOW PERSONABLE THE INDIVIDUAL FROM OPENREACH IS.
There is by the way a perfectly do-able route to my neighbour.