Wayleave electricity poles negotiation

spiritchad

Hoping people will be able to share their experiences to help: we've been offered a wayleave agreement for a high voltage overhead wire and three poles on our property and it seems low. Weston Power has valued the property fairly reasonably but then offered what amounts to 0.03% of that value as a lump sum for a 14 year agreement. I thought the payment was to cover devaluation, but this percentage is negligible (and doesn't reflect probable house price increases over 14 years). We've asked for another offer, but what should we expect? Any experience shared would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

theonlywayisup

It is Western Power and yes the way leave is low.  From memory our pole which is behind a redundant barn and has underground cables from it to the house, was £99.  The agreement was made when none of the barns on the land were habitable. 

J_B

I get an annual cheque from WPD

£1.15 for U/G cable

£7.61 for a pole 'type A'

£2.70 for a pole 'type C'

Hudsonbutler

We used to receive a cheque every year for around £1.35. Just the one electricity pole.
Western power did a 25 year agreement, I think we received around £325. 
Saves the trouble of taking the cheque to the bank 

ObserverOfLife

I'm interested to know more about this. I've discovered that on our new purchase, there is a power pole with overhead cables (Think it's LV) on the side of the bungalow within the garden (2m away - a bit close for comfort??!!) and the pole has an anchor that protrudes into the main area of the garden. This pole supply 3 properties in total. I'm looking to get them to move the anchor closer to the side and put our cable underground as we are doing an extension and loft conversion on the bungalow. Apparently there are no wayleave agreement so looking to negotiate to see if they can do everything for free and I'll give them 10 years wayleave. Wonder how open they will be to that? Good luck with your outcome!

NeverTooLate

ObserverOfLife said:

I'm interested to know more about this. I've discovered that on our new purchase, there is a power pole with overhead cables (Think it's LV) on the side of the bungalow within the garden (2m away - a bit close for comfort??!!) and the pole has an anchor that protrudes into the main area of the garden. This pole supply 3 properties in total. I'm looking to get them to move the anchor closer to the side and put our cable underground as we are doing an extension and loft conversion on the bungalow. Apparently there are no wayleave agreement so looking to negotiate to see if they can do everything for free and I'll give them 10 years wayleave. Wonder how open they will be to that? Good luck with your outcome!

We have a very similar setup and wanted the stay wire moved so that we could change the driveway layout. Unfortunately the wayleave department and the stay wire moving departments don't talk to each other, so there was no possibility of any negotiation. I think the wayleave payments are now a set amount.
We got £350 payment for the wayleave for a 15 year agreement, and it will cost around to £750 to move the stay wire. This is SSE.

spiritchad

We asked about moving the overhead wires underground but it would be at our cost apparently (and tens of thousands of pounds). So even though Western Power claim they are legally considered temporary (so they claim no impact to house value) in reality they won't ever move and obviously do impact the property. I hope you have more luck and others on here might have experience to help too. 

spiritchad

theonlywayisup said:

It is Western Power and yes the way leave is low.  From memory our pole which is behind a redundant barn and has underground cables from it to the house, was £99.  The agreement was made when none of the barns on the land were habitable. 

Apparently the rates are different near residential property so if you're able to renegotiate you could well get more now. Though I'm still not very clear on how much more 🤔

theonlywayisup

spiritchad said:

theonlywayisup said:

It is Western Power and yes the way leave is low.  From memory our pole which is behind a redundant barn and has underground cables from it to the house, was £99.  The agreement was made when none of the barns on the land were habitable. 

Apparently the rates are different near residential property so if you're able to renegotiate you could well get more now. Though I'm still not very clear on how much more 🤔

Which is well and good if there isn't an agreement in place.  There is.  At the time of the agreement we had no intention on converting the outbuildings.  

onomatopoeia99

I get £3.60/year for a pole and a flying wire.  When I bought the house the way the solicitor put to me was that the wayleave already existed in the deeds, and if I wanted to proceed I had to agree to it or I couldn't exchange.

The advent of mobile banking apps where you can photograph a cheque at least means I don't have to go to the bank to pay it in.