Gas pipe fitted without permission

Gasdrama

Wales and west have been replacing gas pipes in my street. They’ve installed a gas pipe to the front of my property to supply the gas to the flat upstairs. They’ve done this without my permission. Can they do that? 

CSI_Yorkshire

How else do you think they should have got the gas to the first floor?

theoretica

A flat upstairs will have the rights to get things to the property and up from ground level, of course.  Or have they just chosen the worst possible place to put it?

debitcardmayhem

Are you the owner of the freehold? if so they should have asked for a wayleave (well in England I believe). But does the pipe and the works included actually need access to your land ?

Jonboy_1984

Have they put the pipe through any part of your demise (official property per the lease) which will typically only be the inside of your walls, with the structural walls themselves being part of the freehold and not owned by you.

Do your leases contain any easements regarding utilities and services that will allow this (hint, they should!).

Gasdrama

I don’t own the freehold so from what you’re saying, I don’t have a say. I’m still amazed they can do it without asking me first. I dont see why they couldn’t have just replaced the existing pipe to supply upstairs. It feels like they’ve taken the easiest (and most unsightly) option… 

Gasdrama

CSI_Yorkshire said:

How else do you think they should have got the gas to the first floor?

By using the pipe that was already there?! 

debitcardmayhem

Gasdrama said:

I don’t own the freehold so from what you’re saying, I don’t have a say. I’m still amazed they can do it without asking me first. I dont see why they couldn’t have just replaced the existing pipe to supply upstairs. It feels like they’ve taken the easiest (and most unsightly) option… 

define unsightly ?

Gasdrama

debitcardmayhem said:

Gasdrama said:

I don’t own the freehold so from what you’re saying, I don’t have a say. I’m still amazed they can do it without asking me first. I dont see why they couldn’t have just replaced the existing pipe to supply upstairs. It feels like they’ve taken the easiest (and most unsightly) option… 

define unsightly ?

It runs right up the front of my house, round the corner and across the top of my front door. 

TadleyBaggie

It might have needed to replaced due to age and therefore safety. 

MWT

Gasdrama said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Gasdrama said:

I don’t own the freehold so from what you’re saying, I don’t have a say. I’m still amazed they can do it without asking me first. I dont see why they couldn’t have just replaced the existing pipe to supply upstairs. It feels like they’ve taken the easiest (and most unsightly) option… 

define unsightly ?

It runs right up the front of my house, round the corner and across the top of my front door. 

There have been changes in the regulations that determine how far a gas pipe can run inside a house before it reaches the meter, net result is more pipes running up the outside of property and more meters moved to the front of houses as well.