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Post by stusco on Apr 27, 2021 17:07:20 GMT 1
Come home from work to find my street has been invaded by telephone poles i can see five from my spot on my settee 😡 apparently its for high speed broadband,all our services are underground so this is the cheapest method we weren’t consulted,the best bit is they still have to dig up the street to supply the poles
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Post by steve h on Apr 27, 2021 18:43:28 GMT 1
If your telephone lines are underground maybe the ducts are full/collapsed. They burn very well... just saying....great for fire lighters.
Fibre optics are underground here, phone lines up in the air. It sounds like your providers have no cash to do it properly?? Or you live in a rural area.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 27, 2021 19:06:01 GMT 1
I thought the days of poles was long gone except in the countryside
I'm waiting for Virgin to finally come into my cul de sac as they did the main road through a couple of years ago
Not that I want it. Just want to have some entertainment from the folk that ignored the tarmac only service strips at the bottom of their drives rule on the deeds and replaced it with monoblock going ape when they rip them up 😆
Steve
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Post by stusco on Apr 27, 2021 19:13:34 GMT 1
If your telephone lines are underground maybe the ducts are full/collapsed. They burn very well... just saying....great for fire lighters. Fibre optics are underground here, phone lines up in the air. It sounds like your providers have no cash to do it properly?? Or you live in a rural area. Suburbs of Edinburgh ,we are surrounded by new builds on the greenbelt and we get poles and everyone else get fibre to the door it looks shit and that’s without cables they have even put them in peoples garden without notice say you can complain and get it moved wtf!
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Post by arrow on Apr 27, 2021 19:30:58 GMT 1
Thats progress for ya, NOT! Each pole is a tree, I thought they were trying to stop cutting down trees. Also, how many lines can a pole serve? 15, 20 tops? Why don't they set it up to work from a phone mast? It is 2021. A phone mast will serve many hundreds I guess, if not more.
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Post by veg on Apr 27, 2021 19:34:44 GMT 1
Not sure of the Scottish law, however down here they have to get agreement from the landowner before coming onto your land, also the need to pay a way leave, it isn’t much though.
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Post by steve h on Apr 27, 2021 20:29:11 GMT 1
Not sure of the Scottish law, however down here they have to get agreement from the landowner before coming onto your land, also the need to pay a way leave, it isn’t much though. The law is different up there...you can get shot with a bow and arrow if your up to your knees in salt water wearing a kilt or something. Much simpler here. I told the guy on a ladder in my garden who was hammering some phone line anchor into the soffit to "get down or f**king fall down it's your choice" Also told him it was courtesy to ask permission first before placing a ladder on a flower bed... anyway... he got a lesson on "courtesy" from me....
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Post by jam911 on Apr 27, 2021 20:33:55 GMT 1
I am in a year long discussion with the power company as they put a new pole and I objected and told them they have to then bury the wires...in the meantime BT added their wires and when the power company came to remove the pole they wouldn't touch BT kit and now we have to wait for BT to bury their wires...throw in Covid and ....it may get sorted one day
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 27, 2021 20:34:37 GMT 1
Not sure of the Scottish law, however down here they have to get agreement from the landowner before coming onto your land, also the need to pay a way leave, it isn’t much though. Depends what they put on the land A few months ago I saw a small piece of land for sale, think it was about £100k but it stated it couldn't be built on or developed I wondered why the feck anybody would buy it till i saw the small print about the contract for the phone mast on it paying £20k a year rental Fecking bargain now Steve
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 27, 2021 20:41:07 GMT 1
Here's another smaller plot rental details Steve
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Post by veg on Apr 27, 2021 21:11:09 GMT 1
Yeah we had a few farmers doing that as well as the old solar panel malarkey, I got the electric supply buried after we moved in had one line across a piece of the garden, neighbour had just paid for it to be ran under his land but it then had to go up onto my poles (had 2 of them) they wanted to move a pole on my bit I told them bollocks eventually the neighbours were getting shouty with the lecky bods because it wasnt fully underground because of me. They had no choice but to run it underground on my perimeter for free and remove the poles. Top result, I only got £20 yr wayleave. You can however sell them the plot with access but you don’t make big money.
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Post by arrow on Apr 27, 2021 23:07:37 GMT 1
Not sure of the Scottish law, however down here they have to get agreement from the landowner before coming onto your land, also the need to pay a way leave, it isn’t much though. The law is different up there...you can get shot with a bow and arrow if your up to your knees in salt water wearing a kilt or something. Much simpler here. I told the guy on a ladder in my garden who was hammering some phone line anchor into the soffit to "get down or f**king fall down it's your choice" Also told him it was courtesy to ask permission first before placing a ladder on a flower bed... anyway... he got a lesson on "courtesy" from me.... Don't bring me into it Steve. I've never shot anyone! 😀
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Post by steve h on Apr 27, 2021 23:26:50 GMT 1
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Post by julianboolean on Apr 28, 2021 11:05:31 GMT 1
Not sure of the Scottish law, however down here they have to get agreement from the landowner before coming onto your land, also the need to pay a way leave, it isn’t much though. When I worked for BT in External Planning (I left in 1998) there was no legal requirement to pay anyone and the way leave wasn't worth the paper it was written on, it was up to you to negotiate with BT if they wanted to feed someone else's service over your land, but if it was for your own service they'd tell you to poke it. BT had no legal write to use private land for telephone services, but had a legal right to use anything considered highway however they wanted.
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Post by stusco on Apr 28, 2021 15:09:37 GMT 1
I’d say these are on private land as the council won’t fix the potholes saying its not their land
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