The word is 'wayleave' and you can claim wayleave payments for plant on your land so long as it is not solely there to feed your property. It won't be much money though.

Alternatively, you can ask them to get their plant feeding your neighbour off of your land.

I wouldn't expect any rapid action from Virgin in either case. Virgin planning is in rapid decline and you are more likely to fall out with your neighbour first.

Edited by deleted (Sun 05-Jan-14 21:57:26)

There's enough plant on my land already, though we normally call them weeds...

We spent one and a half hours yesterday afternoon weeding...

Probably not worth the hassle to chase. I'd just stick to being a good neighbour, if you ever did accidentally cut a wire then Virgin would need to come repair this and would need to request access to your property. Should this arise you could ask them to route it so it doesn't come onto your property.

IIRC the brown box usually houses a junction in the coax cable so if you were to open it up you'd be able to undo the coax running from it around the house. Not sure now the phone side is terminated in there.

Just thought I'd update this.

A few weeks ago I opened the box and cut all the cables inside, including one that went thorough into the house. No complaints from neighbours.

Then over the Easter weekend I removed the box and all the cables. The two cables that came out of the ground in green plastic tube/conduit I cut back and then buried the whole lot in the ground. There was 20+metres of coax cable from around the house.

Filled all the various holes in the brickwork with mortar.

All clean and tidy now. SWMBO is happy now

Just to give you my experience virgin don't like people taking there cables out or cutting them down but they can't prove anything and having done it myself at many properties and they have had no problems switching to or back to cable so don't worry about it.

Also bet your home looks a lot better with all them damn cables gone!

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Just to give you my experience virgin don't like people taking there cables out or cutting them down but they can't prove anything

Seeing as I have no contract, present or past, with Virgin or their predecessors, I can see no way they can do anything.

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Also bet your home looks a lot better with all them damn cables gone!

Too right!

My parents, sadly long deceased, would have been appalled at the mass of cables all too many modern houses are draped with. External wiring had to be hidden, internal wiring or plumbing had to be chased in or put in conduit or boxed in - usually in an internal corner, and then wall-papered over.

Edited by cheshire_man (Fri 02-May-14 12:47:20)