telegraph poles

[fedupnow]

can i charge rent on the telegraph in my garden and can they cut my creeper down

[fredpuli47]

While we are awaiting any fuller answer, the instant response is that you should write to the telephone company concerned and ask them what payment they are making to you as a "wayleave" (and where is it ?). The standard practice e.g on the farm I'm posting from, is that utility companies, such as electricity companies, pay a standard amount to landowners for the right to erect and keep their pylons, poles etc on the landowner's land. This is called, in law, "a wayleave". Our local electricity company maintains a department which deals with nothing else but these payments. As to their cutting down your creeper, my guess is that they can, but only to the extent that it adversely affects their provision of serviices and not otherwise. There's almost certain to be some Act of Parliament that governs such matters and gives the answer to that..

[LBerry]

Is it not detailed in the deeds for your property? You can access the Land Registry to look at your property for a small fee at www.landregistry.gov.uk.

[raysparx1]

How long have you been in the property? because it could well be that the company whose pole it is made a one off payment, so that they did not have to pay annually, but even if they do pay annually it is only a few pound per pole,.