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Wayleave payment offer

spiritchad · 2022-02-09 18:11:37

We have a new home and with it an old wayleave agreement to renegotiate. We've been made a lump sum offer to cover 14 years from western power that we think is low (0.03% of the property value) for three poles and overhead high voltage wires. We've asked for more but got nowhere and now we're not sure if that's just how it…

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yllop1101 Posts: 211 Forumite

13 February 2022 at 7:55PM

My partner used to work for a power company and has said that there is a standard payment amount which legally they are obliged to offer, which is actually £1. They CAN pay more if they really want to save the faff of having to remove the poles to route them elsewhere.

Are you just not wanting the poles in your garden or hoping to make some money? If you don't want the poles in your garden you can just ask them to remove them. The DNO does however have a statutory right (because at the end of the day you need the poles to exist as they power your own house) and if there is no other reasonable place to move them to, they can leave them where they are.

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