Wayleave agreement for electrical apparatus on property.
Discussion
Good evening folks,
I was approached some months ago from a legal firm informing myself I’m eligible to some payment for the overhead electricity lines that supply my home .
From my electricity provider.
The legal firm say I’m entitled to £200 of which they will take 20%
Anyone of you have any experience of this situation
I was approached some months ago from a legal firm informing myself I’m eligible to some payment for the overhead electricity lines that supply my home .
From my electricity provider.
The legal firm say I’m entitled to £200 of which they will take 20%
Anyone of you have any experience of this situation
It’s dead easy to do it directly with the network if you wish.
Don’t get too excited unless you have a lot of power lines and/or poles. On one small plot I get less than £1.50 a year for a bit of overhead line but they will round up and make a 20yr payment if you wish (albeit this is one time). Overall it adds up, but unless you own an awful lot of land it’s not going to be a large sum.
Don’t get too excited unless you have a lot of power lines and/or poles. On one small plot I get less than £1.50 a year for a bit of overhead line but they will round up and make a 20yr payment if you wish (albeit this is one time). Overall it adds up, but unless you own an awful lot of land it’s not going to be a large sum.
Evening gents.
I’ve owned my home 20 + years.
Lived in it 40 odd. ( inherited)
There are no poles on my land, just lines coming in, and crossing it.
I’ve never had any payment for this, I wasn’t aware I was eligible - at all.
The legal firm who are advising say it will be one payment off £200, minus their 20 % for my tenure of the property
I just thought I’d turn it over to the PH intelligentsia for a different view.
I’ve owned my home 20 + years.
Lived in it 40 odd. ( inherited)
There are no poles on my land, just lines coming in, and crossing it.
I’ve never had any payment for this, I wasn’t aware I was eligible - at all.
The legal firm who are advising say it will be one payment off £200, minus their 20 % for my tenure of the property
I just thought I’d turn it over to the PH intelligentsia for a different view.
You can get back payments for unclaimed periods, so couple of hundred pounds isn't out of the question.
It it's just wires then claiming will be as simple as getting in touch with the wayleaves team at the DNO, checking the map they provide and signing the paperwork they send. The fact that a firm is willing to speculatively contact you and offer to sort it for £40 tells you how complex it is!
It's a bit harder if you have poles as you need to confirm where they are sited (fields/hedgerows etc).
If it's a one off then they'll be doing the 20 year calculated lump sum to make the overall number (and their share) larger.
It it's just wires then claiming will be as simple as getting in touch with the wayleaves team at the DNO, checking the map they provide and signing the paperwork they send. The fact that a firm is willing to speculatively contact you and offer to sort it for £40 tells you how complex it is!
It's a bit harder if you have poles as you need to confirm where they are sited (fields/hedgerows etc).
If it's a one off then they'll be doing the 20 year calculated lump sum to make the overall number (and their share) larger.
Jim H said:
Good evening folks,
I was approached some months ago from a legal firm informing myself I’m eligible to some payment for the overhead electricity lines that supply my home .
From my electricity provider.
The legal firm say I’m entitled to £200 of which they will take 20%
Anyone of you have any experience of this situation
My understanding, which may be wrong, is that there's no payment for poles that supply your property.I was approached some months ago from a legal firm informing myself I’m eligible to some payment for the overhead electricity lines that supply my home .
From my electricity provider.
The legal firm say I’m entitled to £200 of which they will take 20%
Anyone of you have any experience of this situation
Only for those which supply other properties.
Also many places have something in the deeds which means your right to wayleaves has been settled with the developer and you get nothing.
We have an electricity pole on our land, and got £1750 from a legal firm for the rights after they took their cut. Took about 18 months but very painless, we just filled in a form and got occasional updates.
There are two other poles that didn’t count though as technically on other land, even though the securing cable comes into ours.
Worth doing I think. It’s pretty disgraceful that these rights weren’t secured properly in the first place, so good to have a proper agreement in place IMO.
There are two other poles that didn’t count though as technically on other land, even though the securing cable comes into ours.
Worth doing I think. It’s pretty disgraceful that these rights weren’t secured properly in the first place, so good to have a proper agreement in place IMO.
We have a pole (with a stay) , a cable to the house, a bit of underground cable, and a cable onward.
We get nothing for the cable to the house.
We get about £30 a year for the rest. The pole is in the boundary hedge, but neighbours a field (not ours) so it is classed as agricultural, so we get additional compensation for not be able to farm it.
I would rather the whole lot was underground!
We get nothing for the cable to the house.
We get about £30 a year for the rest. The pole is in the boundary hedge, but neighbours a field (not ours) so it is classed as agricultural, so we get additional compensation for not be able to farm it.
I would rather the whole lot was underground!
Ours was all a bit strange. Two wooden poles carrying household voltage.
We knew the last owners were getting £20 Pa so applied to have ownership changed. They didn't seem to know what they were doing and the bloke handling it wrote the agreement out 3 times, getting the names wrong every time.
They didn't tell us what we were going to get. We were approached by brokers using their standard blurb saying we could get thousands ££££ and they would take a cut. Given it was looking like £20 we didn't bother with them.
Signed an agreement still with no money mentioned.
Got a cheque for about £20 some months after we'd started the process.
It was a one hour round trip to bank the cheque....
We knew the last owners were getting £20 Pa so applied to have ownership changed. They didn't seem to know what they were doing and the bloke handling it wrote the agreement out 3 times, getting the names wrong every time.
They didn't tell us what we were going to get. We were approached by brokers using their standard blurb saying we could get thousands ££££ and they would take a cut. Given it was looking like £20 we didn't bother with them.
Signed an agreement still with no money mentioned.
Got a cheque for about £20 some months after we'd started the process.
It was a one hour round trip to bank the cheque....
Evoluzione said:
Ours was all a bit strange. Two wooden poles carrying household voltage.
We knew the last owners were getting £20 Pa so applied to have ownership changed. They didn't seem to know what they were doing and the bloke handling it wrote the agreement out 3 times, getting the names wrong every time.
They didn't tell us what we were going to get. We were approached by brokers using their standard blurb saying we could get thousands ££££ and they would take a cut. Given it was looking like £20 we didn't bother with them.
Signed an agreement still with no money mentioned.
Got a cheque for about £20 some months after we'd started the process.
It was a one hour round trip to bank the cheque....
Hurrah for online banking!We knew the last owners were getting £20 Pa so applied to have ownership changed. They didn't seem to know what they were doing and the bloke handling it wrote the agreement out 3 times, getting the names wrong every time.
They didn't tell us what we were going to get. We were approached by brokers using their standard blurb saying we could get thousands ££££ and they would take a cut. Given it was looking like £20 we didn't bother with them.
Signed an agreement still with no money mentioned.
Got a cheque for about £20 some months after we'd started the process.
It was a one hour round trip to bank the cheque....
Interesting thread, we have a pole in our garden with a transformer that supplies us and two other properties and the overhead lines for it that run above our garden. As I type this they are replacing the transformer and some of the supply cables, hadn't even occurred to me we could get something for this, how does one go about it?
geeks said:
Interesting thread, we have a pole in our garden with a transformer that supplies us and two other properties and the overhead lines for it that run above our garden. As I type this they are replacing the transformer and some of the supply cables, hadn't even occurred to me we could get something for this, how does one go about it?
Just search “Wayleave compensation”. We used Sherwill Drake Forbes who were excellent. 67Dino said:
geeks said:
Interesting thread, we have a pole in our garden with a transformer that supplies us and two other properties and the overhead lines for it that run above our garden. As I type this they are replacing the transformer and some of the supply cables, hadn't even occurred to me we could get something for this, how does one go about it?
Just search “Wayleave compensation”. We used Sherwill Drake Forbes who were excellent. Drop them an email and it will be sorted
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