Even with a wayleave the owner of the kit still needs permission to access the land prior to accessing their equipment?

In my case the wayleave does NOT grant them 24/7 free access whenever they feel like. It is private property after all.

If they want access they need to ask. Simple.

A farmer friend has 3 pylons on his property and he gets payed a fair amount each year.

As these carry high voltage cables I assume his wayleave must allow them access at any time, without permission, because if there is an issue then it needs to be fixed quickly.

It depends on the wording of the wayleave but I would expect the phrasing to be something about providing advance notice as a best-effort endeavour.

The OP should ask BT for a copy of the wayleave agreement.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

A farmer friend has 3 pylons on his property and he gets payed a fair amount each year.

As these carry high voltage cables I assume his wayleave must allow them access at any time, without permission, because if there is an issue then it needs to be fixed quickly.

I don't know what the situation is with your friend. Possibly if they are transmission lines owned/operated by National Grid. The lines that cross mine are double timber poles like this. They are owned and operated by UKPN as part of their distribution network. They are part of the dual power link that serves the Felixstowe area. I think they're 33 kV. They have been known to have tree strikes on my neighbours land (or near misses) and typically want to do a visual on foot from our place. It's arable land definitely not suitable to bring regular trucks and lorries over.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

A farmer friend has 3 pylons on his property and he gets payed a fair amount each year.

I just went back and looked at what I was getting about 15 years ago for 11kv lines going across a corner of my land (200m and 3 poles) and it was £25 a year which even then was peanuts. I have since terminated the wayleave and the lines have been removed.

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by broadband66:

A farmer friend has 3 pylons on his property and he gets payed a fair amount each year.

I just went back and looked at what I was getting about 15 years ago for 11kv lines going across a corner of my land (200m and 3 poles) and it was £25 a year which even then was peanuts. I have since terminated the wayleave and the lines have been removed.

I think my massive cheque from them is due in Sept. How will I spend my £25.13?...laughable.

How much hassle was it to get the poles moved?

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

How much hassle was it to get the poles moved?

A lot as I had to terminate the wayleave which isn't easy, about 4 years and £15k of solicitor fees for me. The 11kv was finally diverted and I was told by their project manager it cost them about £100k on their side.

Edited by deleted (Wed 08-Mar-23 17:30:39)

Ouch!!

A relation of mine has two dropwires from the pole in a field behind attached to his house and then onwards to the property on the other side of a lane. Then a single dropwire back from this other property to supply his telephone service.

I'm guessing that the other property has more than one pairs.

Will give it another good looking at next time I am there.

Get lots of noise under certain weather conditions, no wonder with all these extra external joints. Openreach tidied up the wiring a couple of years ago, but relief from noise was short term.

Anyway, ISTR from somewhere that if your service is off the same distribution as others, then no payment or wayleave required. At a previous property, we had a sewer manhole at the end of the line of the sewer where both ours and and next-door-neighbours property connected. Never received anything from Welsh Water, who on occasions used to access the chamber.

Cheers!