BT Telegraph Pole Erected Outside Property!

Deastons

lincroft1710 wrote: »

But as your opinion was based on the report it would follow your opinion was incorrect. Opinions are often based on information, if the information was incorrect, the opinion will be incorrect.

My opinion has nothing to do with this. I was just stating that your fictional report was incorrect.

lincroft1710

But my opinion will remain that there can be an incorrect opinion.

NotRichAtAll

could be worse

boo_star

NotRichAtAll wrote: »

could be worse

Although that’s hilarious it looks like the property was built behind the post rather than the post being erected in front of the driveway.

But it’s amazing that nobody noticed that, at least when they were building the house.

DoaM

boo_star wrote: »

Although that’s hilarious it looks like the property was built behind the post rather than the post being erected in front of the driveway.

Correct - note the lack of dropped kerb to the "driveway". A car cannot legally enter or exit that driveway to the public highway.

hybernia

Apparently, this is one of a trio of 5-bed detached houses built by a Walsall builder in Lichfield Road, Walsall. They were being sold by Walsall estate agent Acorns & Co. Two without the telegraph pole are apparently sold subject to contract but this one doesn't seem to be on Acorns' books any more. No surprise there. What is a surprise -- to me, at any rate -- is why anyone with half a brain would spend £370,000 on the product of a builder whose competence in house construction seems so evidently . . . inadequate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4912420/Fawlty-Towers-style-house-built-pole-driveway.html

Apologies to the OP for going O/T but thanks to NotRichAtAll for flagging up one of the funniest stories I've heard in a long time.

EDIT: the pole must have been moved????? A search of the agent's properties confirms that all three houses now have 'Sale Agreed'.

unholyangel

boo_star wrote: »

Although that’s hilarious it looks like the property was built behind the post rather than the post being erected in front of the driveway.

But it’s amazing that nobody noticed that, at least when they were building the house.

If I remember right (seen that picture & accompanying story before), it was built the wrong way round - drive should have been to the right and stair/footpath to the left.

DoaM wrote: »

Correct - note the lack of dropped kerb to the "driveway". A car cannot legally enter or exit that driveway to the public highway.

I dont believe the lowered kerb is key to whether an offence is committed.

The legislation makes it a general offence and then gives 2 exceptions to the offence - one for saving a life/extinguishing a fire (or other like emergencies) and the other says its not an offence to drive on any land within 15 yards of the road (as in part of the road the cars are driven) for the purpose of parking.

[Deleted User]

What was worse was when they were installing the fibre cabinets every where I few years ago. Slap bang in front of garden walls etc with no consideration of where they were placing them. Meaning if you wanted to built a driveway or garage in the future you couldn't because of the fibre cabinet being in the way. Like that pole in the photo above.

Least when the council install new light posts they tend to put them at the property boundary with the next door property.

oneguy

BT is to erect a 10 meter pole on the path in front of my house as my house sits about a meter below the path level the pole will be higher than my roof ridge it will therefore cast a shadow over my solar panels affecting the output of my panels do i have a case for complaint to get them to relocate the pole.

Aylesbury_Duck

oneguy said:

BT is to erect a 10 meter pole on the path in front of my house as my house sits about a meter below the path level the pole will be higher than my roof ridge it will therefore cast a shadow over my solar panels affecting the output of my panels do i have a case for complaint to get them to relocate the pole.

No harm in asking them if they'll put it elsewhere but I don't think you have a case for complaint, no.  How far away from your roof is the pole?  Is a pole that's what - 10 inches wide and some distance from your house - really going to make a massive difference to your solar panels?  I wouldn't have thought so and your panels have no more "right to light" than you do through your windows.