On 19/10/2012 11:18, Nightjar wrote:
On 19/10/2012 10:49, Tim Watts wrote:
Nightjar wrote:


I would argue that since they *know* that private landowners cannot
all be
trusted, they should be inspecting anyway.

If you want that sort of service, just to deal with a minority of land
owners who don't meet their responsibilities, be prepared to pay a lot
more for your electricity.

It's surely easier to serve
notice on the landowner than to have to bugger about turning the power
off
later.

When the industry was nationalised, it was usually easier for the Board
to do the work for the land owner without charge, but that did depend
upon the land owner asking for it to be done.

As has been said, trees do not grow that fast, so surely this could be
done
when they do other inspections on the line and poles?

See my post at the end of the thread - it now appears that UK Power
Networks were aware of the problem, had asked permission of
Cambridgeshire County Council to cut the trees, and had done nothing
about it until someone spotted the arcing yesterday!

Michael