TheOldFellow wrote:
While digging the garden I came across a 8mm armoured cable, about 8
inches under an old lawn with yellow plastic warning buried about an
inch over the top of it. It appears to be running towards a street
lamp.

I didn't damage it or disturb it much, and it isn't in my way.

Is a 8mm dia armoured cable - diameter across the steel armour - about
right for a small street lamp? It seems to be running from the school
next door. Should the council be paying me a rent on this bit of space?


I used about that to connect my klargester up..Its fused at 6A I think.

Depth? Well I had a soil pipe running there already down about 18" so
it runs in the same trench, but I never heard the BCO ask about it.

I suspect the 18" is for incoming mains which packs a big punch - up to
100A or so in my case.

Cut through what is essentially a 'fused spur' and it will simply blow a
fuse or trip an MCB somewhere,

I thought that buried cable should be at least 18 inches down.


Not sure that applies to post consumer unit stuff.

As far as wayleave goes, it may well be that your house is built on land
that used to belong to whoever laid it.

And no one thought to mention it when selling..so its legally grey!

I am not sure how far down ones ownership, or freehold of land, goes.

Certainly you don't have rights over the airspace above, nor mineral
rights below.

R.