Electricity poles wayleaves

[Rangeroverover]

Does anyone know how I can do this myself rather than using a no win no fee operator. I have electricity poles/cables and a suspended mini substation thing on my land. I know nothing about how to do this but would like to find out.

[julianm]

It`s a few years ago when electricity companies were more regional, but we had a pole in the garden & cables over a point where an extension was going up. I phoned up Yorks electricity - they were most helpful & removed the lot within 10 days with no fee. It did result in about 50m of trenching being required to replace the onward feed, but again no fee. I`d try whoever might be locally responsible - try Yellow Pages for fault reporting & they may put you right - I think it`s Northen Powergrid here now. Good luck!

[anonymous-user]

Op - are you wanting the pole removed or want to initiate wavleave payments that you are not currently getting?

[22]

We were looking at planning for a lake and several hundred metres of poles ran across the land. Apparently once planning is granted the poles would have to be moved (although their current existence is considered during planning). While researching etc it turned out the wayleaves were agreed 50+ years previously but hadn't been paid. Nice little bonus for the land owner (not me) and in the end the lake didn't happen, but we found the dedicated 'wayleave officer' to be incredibly helpful and knowledgeable.

[Rangeroverover]

I am trying to figure out what the process is to receive either a one off payment or back payments for electricity poles that cross some land in Devon that I have an interest in. I understand that if you contact western power they will come up with a figure; if you don't agree with the figure or if you feel that the power poles detract from the value of the land/property is it something you can argue or do you just get whatever they offer

[anonymous-user]

Rangeroverover said:

I am trying to figure out what the process is to receive either a one off payment or back payments for electricity poles that cross some land in Devon that I have an interest in. I understand that if you contact western power they will come up with a figure; if you don't agree with the figure or if you feel that the power poles detract from the value of the land/property is it something you can argue or do you just get whatever they offer

There is a standard amount that they pay according to the number of poles, length of run etc. Lots on info here https://www.westernpower.co.uk/Connections/New-Con...

I get my payments from Western Power in Lincs - they are very decent to talk to and do not want to fall out with landowners. With me I wanted about 150m of overhead cables changed to underground so as to reduce eyesore. In this instance it actually helped them too (long story) so they are doing all that work this July for me.

I would just call the wayleave dept and start a conversation to see what is possible.

A word of advice - you can always argue against them but of course a court case is probably not something you want to get into so I'd try to be open in your discussions and feel them out before taking things further. A request from you to re-route a load of overhead cables etc may not be feasible and a court could judge you to be unreasonable if it went that far.