Telegraph pole at the end of cu-de-sac

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mike_pl
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Hi you All
I'm wondering if maybe somebody had the same issue as mine.

We live at the end of cul-de-sac with a grass verge separating us from the road...
on the edge of the grass there is a telegraph pole.
With people having 2-3 cars per household parking is getting tricky to say the least as all the houses from the end of the road (behind the verge) are forced to park on the road...

we are thinking about asking council (or chip in privately) to remove the grass/ tarmac the lot - that would bot increase space on the road and allow people to park on their drives.

my question here is: what can be the cost of moving/removing the pole? Its one of those old wooden ones with phone lines.

secondly who should we contact to request the permission to tarmac the lot?

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  • Neil_Jones
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    The telegraph pole will be BT's responsibility but it won't just be a case of pulling it up and sticking it somewhere else so to speak you'll have all the cables that run under the ground that will also need rerouting too. This will not be quick and it will not be cheap, assuming BT agree to such a request in the first place. Which they probably won't in all honesty, unless there was a health and safety reason. To increase parking levels on a street probably doesn't cover that so you may have to work round it.

    As to the grass lot - depends who's land it's on. Need to check the land borders because it may technically part of somebody else's property. You may need to get planning permission from the council regardless.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Grass verge is not normally part of a property /usually highways/ local council owned .
    It is an offence to park on a grass verge if council/ highways owned .
  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    And if it is incorporated into the public highway a bit of tarmac won't cover it. The whole lot will probably have to be dug out and relaid to public highway standards.

    Move the pole - BT Openreach

    https://www.openreach.com/network-services/altering-our-network/

    Could easily be £20k if a new underground jointing chamber has to be built to supply a new underground feed to the new pole location.
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  • tempus_fugit
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    Have fewer cars maybe?
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  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,598 Forumite
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    I'm sure there was a thread from this year where the OP wanted a BT pole moving, maybe have a look.
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    I'm sure there was a thread from this year where the OP wanted a BT pole moving, maybe have a look.

    Think it was in the OP's back garden from memory and they objected to OR having free access.
  • DCFC79
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    Colin_Maybe wrote: »
    Think it was in the OP's back garden from memory and they objected to OR having free access.


    Yes you could be right.
  • nick74
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    JJ_Egan wrote: »
    Grass verge is not normally part of a property /usually highways/ local council owned .
    It is an offence to park on a grass verge if council/ highways owned .

    Unless the vehicle is an HGV, causing an obstruction or breaking a local bylaw it is not an offence to park on the verge.
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