Have a good read on your rights regarding TPOs. Where there is potential for damage or injury rather than aesthetics of light you have rights to deal with the issue with minimal notice.

My neighbour recently completely felled 5 TPO trees : he told the LA he was doing it as they were dangerous, with a report said just a few days notice, there was nothing they could do. Did I object? No.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

I’m not entirely sure why it is Openreach’s responsibility to cut back trees. Especially if these trees are on private property.

That seems entirely reasonable to me too to be honest! The OpenReach contractor implied that the job would be passed back to OpenReach who would come and cut the trees before sending them back but I wasn't sure whether that was a reasonable thing to expect to happen or just the contractor leaving the job without annoying the customer too much.

Today Zen have told me: "Upon review of your order we have been advised that the engineer was unable to complete the installation yesterday due to further work being required, which has been advised to be tree cutting as the copper line is routed via 2 trees to the house so access to the cable will be required.
The job has now been passed back to the relevant team to arrange when this will now happen."

I've asked for some clarification and pointed out that the trees have TPOs.

It is called "pull new cable through trees by using old dropwire and a winch" ... I've seen it done.

In reply to a post by MHC:

It is called "pull new cable through trees by using old dropwire and a winch" ... I've seen it done.

Erm … not quite, it’s called “cut and draw”

I was being descriptive ...

In reply to a post by MHC:

It is called "pull new cable through trees by using old dropwire and a winch" ... I've seen it done.

This makes sense but doesn't involve any tree cutting does it? My ISP have confirmed this morning that "Yes, it will be Openreach or one of their contractors that does the tree cutting. We are just waiting on confirmation as to when this will be.".

You are from now on called "something that walks on two legs".

Your nick needs replacing with STWOTL

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Edited by pluralist (Fri 04-Jun-21 09:41:31)

In reply to a post by pluralist:

You are from now on called "something that walks on two legs".

Your nick needs replacing with STWOTL

😂😆

For the past 15months yes ...

If you could have seen the 3 leyllandii plus another confier in less than 4 metres with one over 600mm diameter at the base - it was dense. They had pulled copper through them three or four times in the past couple of years, due to damage but not the fault of the trees. They were removed before the fibre drop was done.

The fibre drop required 60m pole to pole at the side of a road with 10-12 trees to go through. And that was done by Kellys one of BT/ORs sub-cons.

"If so, would it be possible to erect a sufficiently tall pole just inside your boundary, which wouldn't need to be anything like a telegraph pole"

If OR are working on it / putting kit on it , it will need to be a tetegraph pole.