Electricity pole in our garden marked with 'D' (defective)

ROY47

Both BT/Openreach and the electricity DNOs use identical/similar 'D' plates.  You cannot determine ownership of a pole by the presence of a 'D' alone.

Identical and similar is different  The DNO I worked for had red D on white background not just red

Not all electicity poles have yellow danger of death signs on them (yet).  These are being rolled out and there are some locations where they are still absent.

They should have by  now  we were told they had to have them for   health and safety  and that was at least 7 years ago

Best option for the original poster is to take a picture of pole and post on here  (not just D plate )

Try and get a picture of all the pole

And hopefully we will all know whose pole it is .... google earth may help ( but then again if its in a back garden it may not ).

stormCat99

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

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boots_babe said:

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

I am not surprised. Your power has to come from somewhere so removing the pole could involve a lot of work. I have a pole at the end of my garden which is served by an underground cable that crosses the small development that my property is on. If I asked for the pole to be removed the DNO would have to extend the present underground cable about 80/100 yards across a neighbouring field. 

Eldi_Dos

boots_babe said:

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

How much would the value of your property go up by if you had the work carried out.

warwick2001

Eldi_Dos said:

boots_babe said:

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

How much would the value of your property go up by if you had the work carried out.

I suspect not £33k, especially in the current housing climate.

stormCat99

Eldi_Dos said:

boots_babe said:

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

How much would the value of your property go up by if you had the work carried out.

Not something we'd be interested in as this is our forever home. From other feedback online people have paid no more than 4 figure sums, I know every situation is different but was still taken aback by the £33k.

Eldi_Dos

boots_babe said:

Eldi_Dos said:

boots_babe said:

Just to update this thread. We've now had a quote to replace the pole with underground cabling, but at £33k it's way higher than we'd expected from reading around.  So looks like the pole is staying.

How much would the value of your property go up by if you had the work carried out.

Not something we'd be interested in as this is our forever home. From other feedback online people have paid no more than 4 figure sums, I know every situation is different but was still taken aback by the £33k.

If it is to be your forever home, other things to take into consideration are extra costs that may occur if you are getting work done to your property in the future.
When risk assessments are carried out it could lead to different methods being used to carry out work that make quite a difference to costs.