On Wed, 19 May 2004 21:14:50 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On Wed, 19 May 2004 20:17:14 +0100, Will wrote:

I found another source of info on this story, the final
paragraph is the most revealing - reading between the lines it appears
that BT may have installed the cable on the wrong side of this chap's
boundary, and are now looking to resite the boundary...

I'm not sure that I'd read that into it at all.

It is very common for there to be a services strip at the edge of a
property next to the road. I have one about a metre wide at the end
of my drive where it connects with the road. It's marked either side
with stone inserts at the edges of the drive.

AIUI, it is my property, but any organisation delivering services
(e.g. cables, pipes, etc.) has an automatic wayleave to use this area
as long as they make good afterwards.

The fences at the sides of the drive go all the way to the road and
belong to me.

Given that scenario, it is easy to figure out what could have happened
in this instance.


Hi Andy,

I guess that you live in a fairly modern property? I have seen
such like that have blocks let into front lawns that read "boundary"
or similar, a meter or so before the inner edge of the pavement.

The area that I live in, which must be similar to a huge number
of others, predates this scenario, in that my boundary extends to the
inner edge of the pavement, the demarcation evident by slim inset
"kerb stones". As far as I'm aware - and I was the first occupant of
the property nearly 40 years ago - all of the services, with the
exception of the overhead electrical supply, run under the road. The
water cutoffs are let into the pavement, and I can remember my father
(I didn't say that I was the head of the family!) cutting the 'phone
line whilst laying the front lawn. The phone line entered the property
perpendicular to the frontage.

It is possible that you are correct in your deductions, but
having witnessed the "workmen" that the utility companies tend to
employ, I am not too surprised that the cable might well be within
this chap's boundary...

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Regards,

Will.