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Re: Garden Dug Up and Cable installed on my property without knowledge
A little research on Google would suggest that COBRA Installations are no longer contracted to Virgin Media, so it might be a company called Kelly Communications.
I'm sure others here would be able to clarify that. Both companies and their workforce appear to have a pretty bad reputation. Underpaid, hurried work as you would expect. No doubt, Virgin Media themselves should be able to supply you with accurate contact details of the liable party. |
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100%. Chop it. |
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Chopping the wire would force VM to take action, but no-one seems to be taking into account what this action will do to relations between the OP and the neighbour.. VM you don't have to live next too ;)
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Doesn't look like his neighbour is bothered about "relations" with him since he allowed them to trespass and dig up his lawn and is now avoiding him. Personally I would drop a letter through his door telling him what action you are about to take and asking them to let you know if ANY permissions were asked on the day as it may be that the contractor turned up, dug the cable in and then knocked on their door. (Odds are they will deny all knowledge etc anyway but at least you can make them aware you are getting it dealt with)
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I'm assuming this is an open plan style garden. No fencing or otherwise to mark the boundary, just a fair bit of grass. In which case could there be an easy misunderstanding as to where the boundary lay? Might your neighbour even beleive that that bit of garden was his?
The cable installers would be working from the pavement T point to if that was in the wrong place from yeasr ago when the ducts were laid, then everything would follow on now. I'd have to look up definitions but for criminal damage to have been doen by digging up the garden there would have had to be some form of intent or recklessness to cause damage to the garden of another. This is a civil rather than criminal issue. Although you don't want the service crossing your property, don't just cut the cable. Give notice that you will be doing so both the VM / Cobra and your neighbour. Only cut it once that notice has expired. That way you are continuing to act in a fair and reasonable matter and trying not to escalate a problem. Remember two wrongs don't make a right and rushing into a resolution won't help anyone. It is important to remember that you don't want to create bad feeling with your neighbour even if it starts from something that isn't your fault. You both have to live there afterwards and bad neighbourt relationships can be a right pain. If you end up falling out in such a way there there is a dispute with him you might be required to declare such a dispute to any prospective purchaser of your property. That will immediately downvalue your home, and make it harder to sell. |
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Indeed... not worth falling out, but the OP needs to speak to the neigbour to find out what happened.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. I would not cut the cable.
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are you sure the ghost of jeremy beadles' not about :)
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Hi All
Many thanks for all your responses. I have got more detail now, apparently it was done by OpenReach. The neighbour signed as Easement for his property, but the man said he could dig through ours??? Makes no sense, why ask him to sign an easement and then dig though our garden? The neighbour told him that we would not allow it and he seemed to think he was within his right!! So now we will have to see. |
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