Compensation for cables beneath your home

Brie

Local social media has been full of these kind of things and people have reported getting a couple hundred quid as a result. 

My concern would be the actual wording of the agreement - anything in the small print to say anything about future claims for anything.  I have no knowledge of this happening but there's all the reports one hears of doing a PPI claim thru a 3rd party who then goes on to get the majority of a tax return etc from HMRC.

Jonboy_1984

We had a similar letter a few weeks after moving in last year. As the searches hadn’t shown anything I checked in with the DNO to find out what was under the garden before I start to dig too deeply for some planned landscaping work.

They sent through some detailed plans within 48 hours and the cable in question for us runs from the substation in the corner of the street under the front gardens of our entire block, with the supply’s to each house split off.

Happy I know where it is, but wouldn’t bother chasing the way-leave payments as everyone doing so will only put everyone’s prices up.

diystarter7

Jonboy_1984 said:

We had a similar letter a few weeks after moving in last year. As the searches hadn’t shown anything I checked in with the DNO to find out what was under the garden before I start to dig too deeply for some planned landscaping work.

They sent through some detailed plans within 48 hours and the cable in question for us runs from the substation in the corner of the street under the front gardens of our entire block, with the supply’s to each house split off.

Happy I know where it is, but wouldn’t bother chasing the way-leave payments as everyone doing so will only put everyone’s prices up.

Hi
That is indeed very magnamus of you. IMHO, the more people that here about it, the more people will try to ascertain if pwer cables run under the garden of a property they were to buy and if it was us, we'd backout A-Sap.

If we had cables under our garden and got a letter like this and as long as we were happy with the T&C, we'd go for it on thr basis that many will like they do, EG was is PIP cnt recall and more recently diselgate. 

Thnaks

Jonboy_1984

Not so much magnanimous as not convinced it’s truest worth the effort, the in-laws have a telegraph pole and get around £1 a month for it…

valcar

I have just received an unsolicitored letter about compensation for power lines under my garden. The company, Taylor Walton, is based in Cheshire. I live in Oxford. It seems like ambulance chasing to me. We are becoming a compensation culture. But all that does is put prices up for everyone. I'd welcome more infor if anyone out there knows more than I do.

user1977

valcar said:

I have just received an unsolicitored letter

Presumably that's cheaper than one which has been solicitored!

What info would you like anyway? If you disapprove of the idea of getting compensation, you presumably can just ignore their suggestion...

EssexHebridean

I wish people would stop bumping old threads which DIYStarter had posted on - it's scaring the bejasus out of me every time that he's reappeared!

Interesting that the ambulance chasers are now getting in on the possibility of people claiming payments for cables now mind.  

jimbo6977

My parents used to get a shilling a year from the electricity board, decimalised to 5p, hardly worth banking the cheque. Then their neighbour started landscaping his garden and literally got a nasty shock - turned out the cable was not where anyone had thought it was.