I can see why she personally objects to its location. It does rather stand out from her perspective.

..... amazing, you would have thought even an Umpa-Lumpa would want faster internet access ! Unusual for the Mail not to come up with some, 'DSLAM cabinet makes house prices tumble' angle for the story !

I would willingly have a new cabinet placed in my front garden - especially if it meant that I would get a FTTC service in the guaranteed near future rather than a RFS date some time in March 2012...... if they gave me FTTH for free even better.

If that was the house on the corner Langley/cedar It could only improve the state of the house

I think thats unfair as looking at the picture in the other report I linked to, there has been some work at the front including lowering the wall and clearing much of the over growth.Street view is usefull but most of it is now several years old .
The cabinet does appears to be sited immediately next to the entrance. Its also some distance from what I presume is the main cabinet its linked to. Openreach must have their reasons for wanting to site it there, but it does seem somewhat inconsiderate.
Its there now as there is no prior planning approval required, and there is no appeal process for her so she is going to have to battle with Openreach/BT to try and get them to agree to re-site it..

Edited by deleted (Sun 03-Jul-11 20:16:54)

I would gladly have it on the side of my house, if any BT employees are looking here, please pm me and we will get the ball rolling.

Garden? Have it at the front door man!

In reply to a post by NilSatisOptimum:

I would gladly have it on the side of my house, if any BT employees are looking here, please pm me and we will get the ball rolling.

�The worst part is at the side of my house, I have a much higher brick wall which would have been a perfect place to site the cabinet.�
She was quite happy to have it at the side of her house, but that's not where they put it!

She also said "I am not even a BT customer." which we all know is irrelevant but I expect 95%+ of the public that know about FTTC equate it with BT Infinity, which is kind of where this thread came in.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

I think thats unfair as looking at the picture in the other report I linked to, there has been some work at the front including lowering the wall and clearing much of the over growth.Street view is usefull but most of it is now several years old .
The cabinet does appears to be sited immediately next to the entrance. Its also some distance from what I presume is the main cabinet its linked to. Openreach must have their reasons for wanting to site it there, but it does seem somewhat inconsiderate.
Its there now as there is no prior planning approval required, and there is no appeal process for her so she is going to have to battle with Openreach/BT to try and get them to agree to re-site it..

I suspect the reason for its position may be to do with easy acess to mains electricity.
Her property seems one of the few where the front garden is not used for parking (you can see that the curbs have been lowered in front of some) I suppose she could argue that Openreach have now restricted her from doing the same and that as electric cars become more popular, off street parking may become more important to allow them to be charged.
Had she applied to the council to use her garden for this purpose, and to get the curb lowered, then this would have come up as Openreach consulted with them and the cab sited eleswhere.
I am not making excuses for Openreach, and it may not have taken much effort so put the cab around the corner, but if you live in a similar street and would rather not have a cab outside, then a little action may prevent trying to get it moved later.

Edited by deleted (Mon 04-Jul-11 05:51:10)

However we all know what mindset reads the Mail franchise. They are closer to being Socialists, be that National, than they think!