The crazy thing is that by not putting in ducting the developer almost guaranteed the poles he didn't want.

Something very odd there.

+ 1 the whole situation is confusing me, the developers story doesn’t add up. If you don’t want cables you route underground.

It could be the OP was told this by the house seller, and it's garbage. (As in "a friend of a friend told me etc."). It is a "nearly" new house, so the developer may be long gone.

Even odder that planning permission was given. AIUI underground supply is required by most councils.

Unless of course this isn't a new estate, but is an inbuild property. Where communications ducting would not be cost-effective for the builder. Almost FTTPoD territory until the apparent native one appeared. Which takes us back to the questions about the available ports on the pole.

As we have seen others post, Openreach priorities can change, with headend exchange connection being a long time after the pole installations.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 22-Dec-20 14:25:25)

It is indeed infill property rather than a new estate. It was a self-build which probably accounts for the disconnect between what any sane developer would do and what was actually built. Fiber wasn't available in the area when they started building and has only been installed on the street in the last 6 months or so which I suspect may have paid a part in the reasoning not to bother with a duct.

The pole feeding the house also feeds the neighbouring properties. There aren't any trees so there is direct line of sight to the house but the path to the neighbouring houses may well be obstructed by ours. I suspect the survey data they use may be a little crude and they mark all the properties as being potentially obstructed just to cover themselves.