Electricity poles in garden and nearby

Thrugelmir

Use plants to screen the view from the house/patio/part of the garden.

GDB2222

If they are very high voltage lines, I get a feeling of tension from them. Quite unpleasant. I’m not affected by the cables slung on poles, just the ones on pylons.

AdrianC

GDB2222 wrote: »

If they are very high voltage lines, I get a feeling of tension from them. Quite unpleasant. I’m not affected by the cables slung on poles, just the ones on pylons.

There's a variety of voltages used for transmission - the higher the voltage, the lower the power losses in transmission.

230/415V are used for local transmission - local transformer to house.
11kV and 33kV are used for transmission to local transformers. All of these are owned by the local distribution companies.
High voltage lines are used for national distribution - 132kV, 275kV and 400kV - and are owned by the National Grid (132kV can cross over to local).

None of them have any proven health effects, but just about any of them will get the tin-foil-hat brigade having kittens in one way or another.

We have 11kV coming to a local transformer up a pole behind the garage, where it's distributed as 230V to us and eight of our neighbours. This is common in rural areas - many of our neighbours have a 11kV-230V transformer just for their property alone.

Davesnave

There must be a field of some kind around even the 11kV cables, because I can dowse them, but I can't detect anything if just walking under them.They don't bother me anyway.

Our three poles and associated stays pay about £45 annually, which is nice, but that assumes a loss from agriculture around their locations. I'm not sure if the wayleave's the same for private garden land.

Fortunately, our neighbour gets the last above ground pole and transformer for a view, but I'm sure if we needed to hide a similar eyesore, we could plant a eucalyptus and lose it in 5 years. So could you, if you have a 25m gap. It's just like any other view that might need improvement with judicious planting.


The circumstances might be different , but around our way Western Power have been gradually replacing all the earlier wooden poles with taller ones; I'd guess to allow for the size of modern farm machinery. When they did ours, we worried that the result might look more conspicuous, but exactly the reverse is true. The wires aren't in our eye line so much and we don't notice them.

AdrianC

Davesnave wrote: »

There must be a field of some kind around even the 11kV cables, because I can dowse them, but I can't detect anything if just walking under them.They don't bother me anyway.

Yes, there's electromagnetic fields - that's basic physics. The same basic physics that sees wireless charging of mobile phones or your electric toothbrush.

Our three poles and associated stays pay about £45 annually, which is nice, but that assumes a loss from agriculture around their locations. I'm not sure if the wayleave's the same for private garden land.

Yes, it is. We've just had our cheque for the year.

GDB2222

There's a hum around very high voltage grid lines.

Maybe I'm sensitive, I can feel my skin react to the electric field. I'm not saying there's anything dangerous. Indeed, the stats indicate that there isn't, but it's still noticeable, and I find it rather unpleasant.

dan958

ee9600 wrote: »

. But are they likely to put off future buyers and is there anything in the suggestion that they may be connected with health problems or is that nonsense?

As you are even asking the question, yes, people could put off by this.

DigForVictory

I think the number of time-future buyers spooked by power lines will be outnumbered by the number of time-future buyers thinking Three Acres?!

The longer you live there, the less you'll notice & the more evidence that it can't be *that* bad for you you will have versus the overly nervous.

Skiddaw1

GDB2222 wrote: »

There's a hum around very high voltage grid lines.

Always slightly gives me the heebies does that. Reminds me of an episode of Quatermass.

Davesnave

dan958 wrote: »

As you are even asking the question, yes, people could put off by this.

In the real world, it's the pylons some hundreds of metres away that will most likely put people off, if they spoil an otherwise unsullied view. If they don't, they're irrelevant.

As others have tried to explain, it would be a funny old place these days that didn't have the lower voltage supplies on wooden poles nearby. The power company might put the cables underground for the last few tens of metres, but that's expensive. We have a 150m run underground to a barn and I'm very glad we didn't put it in!

When buying a property with significant land, there's a whole raft of considerations besides power supplies and telephone wires to be weighed-up. If someone can get most of these to stack-up well, the existence of some power poles won't be likely to stand in the way!