Electricity Pole removal

belslot

I have 2 electric poles in my garden. The first on the boundary has 2 cables from it. One supplies my house and the other cable goes over part of my house and the width of my garden to the second pole that only supplies the neighbours.  I have checked with the electricity supplier there is no wayleave agreement. 
 
I would like the second pole and cable removed if possible. 

Has anybody been successful at this and how do I go about it?

Robin9

Write to your DNO     and ask that they remove it at no cost to you. Confirm their is no wayleave agreement.

BarelySentientAI

belslot said:

I have 2 electric poles in my garden. The first on the boundary has 2 cables from it. One supplies my house and the other cable goes over part of my house and the width of my garden to the second pole that only supplies the neighbours.  I have checked with the electricity supplier there is no wayleave agreement. 
 
I would like the second pole and cable removed if possible. 

Has anybody been successful at this and how do I go about it?

But is there an easement?  Specific or presumptive?

It would seem a little odd if you could just get your neighbour disconnected from the grid.

Netexporter

The DNO might be willing to reroute the supplies but I'd budget, say, £50k to pay them to do it.

Robin9

If there is no wayleave/agreement then the DNO has no right to be there

OP -   Are you sure that is the route and its not that the supply starts off at the neighbour  -  a sketch would help

BarelySentientAI

Robin9 said:

If there is no wayleave/agreement then the DNO has no right to be there

That's not necessarily true.

Robin9

In my time as a  DNO engineer there were occasions when both properties were originally in the same ownership and everything was done by word of mouth - that may have been in the 1950's at the time of Rural Electrification 

unforeseen

If they can move the 2nd pole off your land, still in the general area of the original then you still won't win as they probably have a right to overfly a cable across the land similar to Openreach

Ectophile

unforeseen said:

If they can move the 2nd pole off your land, still in the general area of the original then you still won't win as they probably have a right to overfly a cable across the land similar to Openreach

But that's not the same as having a pole in your garden.

debitcardmayhem

Are there just two cables, if so you might find that the cable to/from your neighbour is supplying you oops🥸

BarelySentientAI

Robin9 said:

In my time as a  DNO engineer there were occasions when both properties were originally in the same ownership and everything was done by word of mouth - that may have been in the 1950's at the time of Rural Electrification 

In which case, it's been there for more than 20 years without documented permission and in plain sight, therefore now benefits from a presumptive easement.