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Originally Posted by Angua
IIRC when Comtel was installed locally the cables from the green box seemed to go under all the pavements with a small "cat" cover outside each property. It sounds to me as if the cable installers got lazy and put pipes under the grass verges instead of the path. There should be some record of what they were planning to do with your local "highways" authority which may not be the same as the authority you bought the land from.
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It's nothing to do with being lazy, if the ducting for the cable is put under the pavement you will also find it will go under grass verges instead of the pavement, this kept the cost down as it was quicker to do this. Also the council would have agreed to the route of these as well. As has been mentioned if this has been done, and no one has objected to this, and it has past twelve years then i'm afraid it's tough. Also if the solicitors didn't pick this up on any searches then they must be liable. Then again this all could be a genuine mistake, but the cost to get this moved and disruption it would cause, it's not going to be moved easily.
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Originally Posted by geezer717
No, the install was done whilst the land was still owned by the council and allegedly the pipe services around 12 households (according to the engineer), it does go to a green box (i watched em pull out the cable I chopped and re feed a new one today  |
Don't think it's clever cutting a cable that is providing a service to someone.
