Scottish Power Break into my house to fix fault

SAC2334

Zandoni said:

SAC2334 said:

Zandoni said:

I'm not having all this they have the right rubbish, I know they do though but I'd expect it should be done in a very careful way with a manager present to limit the damage to your property, I'd even consider making a complaint with the police. You need to raise a complaint and aim to get your property restored to it's former condition.

They would have had a legal warrant of entry signed by the Magistrate .Without that it would have been illegal to enter any property .Lots of bodies have this power , over 200 different organistions have legal access to any property without permissions.
An Englishmans home is not his castle and never has been .

I said that I know they have the right, but i feel that from the OPs post it doesn't to seem to have been done properly. I doubt there are 200 organisations, can you name them?

I can t but Barry Snook can. He s a barrister and made a report on the subject for the Centre for Policy Studies
 and named 266 bodies can enter properties  and not all of them even needed Warrants . Lots of unusual ones such as searching for foreign bee s  or seals and even under the Hypnotism Act officers can enter

JezR

Accord to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/powers-of-entry there were around 900 separate powers of entry under primary and secondary legislation in 2018 although these will also relate to business and other premises not just domestic, and some of these are vested in the same organisation

Richard Stilgoe did this song back in the 1970s for the main ones of the time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_pcCJH60g

Zandoni

I can't find much about it https://www.inbrief.co.uk/property-law/who-can-enter-your-house/

Ultrasonic

Ask yourself if you'd had authorised the access if you had been asked, and if not, why not? Yes damage needs compensating for but otherwise I'd not got too caught up in legal details personally.

If you and your neighbours don't have ways of contacting each other then sort this. It's basic common sense to be able to, which may benefit you in the future.

Keep_pedalling

SAC2334 said:

Zandoni said:

I'm not having all this they have the right rubbish, I know they do though but I'd expect it should be done in a very careful way with a manager present to limit the damage to your property, I'd even consider making a complaint with the police. You need to raise a complaint and aim to get your property restored to it's former condition.

They would have had a legal warrant of entry signed by the Magistrate .Without that it would have been illegal to enter any property .Lots of bodies have this power , over 200 different organistions have legal access to any property without permissions.
An Englishmans home is not his castle and never has been .

Unless you do actually live in a castle

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SAC2334 said:

Zandoni said:

I'm not having all this they have the right rubbish, I know they do though but I'd expect it should be done in a very careful way with a manager present to limit the damage to your property, I'd even consider making a complaint with the police. You need to raise a complaint and aim to get your property restored to it's former condition.

They would have had a legal warrant of entry signed by the Magistrate .Without that it would have been illegal to enter any property .Lots of bodies have this power , over 200 different organistions have legal access to any property without permissions.
An Englishmans home is not his castle and never has been .

Not necessarily. From the relevant Act:

Quote:

Restriction on exercise of rights of entry.

(1). No right of entry to which this Act applies shall be exercisable in respect of any premises except—

(a).  with consent given by or on behalf of the occupier of the premises, or

(b).   under the authority of a warrant granted under the next following section:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply where entry is required in a case of emergency.

Unquote 

Just to be clear, it would not have been Scottish Power which is just a supplier. Scottish Power Energy Networks, a DNO and a separate company, is the most likely culprit.