Electricity pole movement costs?

[jimmy milnes]

Oddball question for a stalking site I know but....

Would anyone happen to have had an electricity pole "single wooden type" moved and would know rough cost please?

I've seen a house in Scotland I like and an possibly going to put a bid on, but it's got a electricity pole in the garden approximately 3 yards from the back door which I'd like moved if I won the property.
Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Liveonce]

Oddball question for a stalking site I know but....

Would anyone happen to have had an electricity pole "single wooden type" moved and would know rough cost please?

I've seen a house in Scotland I like and an possibly going to put a bid on, but it's got a electricity pole in the garden approximately 3 yards from the back door which I'd like moved if I won the property.
Cheers
Jimmy

Hint , free if rotten and dangerous to climb by the power engineer, otherwise several hundreds of pounds or more I bet.

 

[jimmy milnes]

Hint , free if rotten and dangerous to climb by the power engineer, otherwise several hundreds of pounds or more I bet.

Thanks, I was expecting thousands not hundreds

 

[Boosh]

They dont work in 100's, but as above, if it's in a 'state' it will be fixed to make safe.

 

[jimmy milnes]

They dont work in 100's, but as above, if it's in a 'state' it will be fixed to make safe.

I'd imagine it's only free if left in the same place though?

 

[Magnificent 7]

We moved six wooden poles on our land and had to put a cable in the electric board planned a shut and connected either end and removed the poles and connected the other houses onto it this was around ten years ago and cost around 70k I think in total that was including cable labour our end plus shut ect ect.Depends who It will effect as to how much of a shut needed to moved said pole as they will have to alter cable length ect and I’d say they would want replace full cable at your cost can’t see them re using old cable

 

[Norfolk Horn]

Have you signed a way leave for the post. If not my understanding is that you can asked for it to be removed or repositioned at no cost to you

 

[jimmy milnes]

Have you signed a way leave for the post. If not my understanding is that you can asked for it to be removed or repositioned at no cost to you

That's worth looking into cheers.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Oddball question for a stalking site I know but....

Would anyone happen to have had an electricity pole "single wooden type" moved and would know rough cost please?

I've seen a house in Scotland I like and an possibly going to put a bid on, but it's got a electricity pole in the garden approximately 3 yards from the back door which I'd like moved if I won the property.
Cheers
J

Deleted; I think @fishdoc was his username, he worked for UK power networks in the office, but he seems to have left the building though ... are you out there Andy?
Edit; they can pretty much name their price.

 

[Fair Hill]

It's probably going to have to be replaced by two other new poles, I think I paid about 4 grand for three new posts well over a decade ago here in Ireland and others in the same situation told me I got off cheap.

 

[Bowland blades]

Oddball question for a stalking site I know but....

Would anyone happen to have had an electricity pole "single wooden type" moved and would know rough cost please?

I've seen a house in Scotland I like and an possibly going to put a bid on, but it's got a electricity pole in the garden approximately 3 yards from the back door which I'd like moved if I won the property.
Cheers
Jimmy

I have a tip for you . Just check and see how old the wiring into the meter is and how old the pole is . They will not want to do it for free but if its real old wiring ( and it often is ) i can tell you how to get it done if they say no . Prefferably via DM
Been there dont that one

 

[Whitefront]

Have you signed a way leave for the post. If not my understanding is that you can asked for it to be removed or repositioned at no cost to you

They normally only need a wayleave if the pole is carrying electricity from your land on to another property, as opposed to just your own building. If they should have a wayleave but cannot produce it, then you can indeed tell them to move it (and also pay you a wayleave). Having said that, I asked them to move a single pole that wasn't serving anybody else but was in an inconvenient position, too near an outbuilding, and they did it - without charge. I think they saw it as a safety issue.

 

[J@son]

Is the pole part of a chain that goes on to supply other properties or is house you are interested in the last in the line? The reason I ask is this....If the pole is in the garden then there is probably a wayleave agreement - under the terms of which the power company will be paying a small rent to the property’s owners for the right to place the pole in the garden and access it. Might be worth finding out about the wayleave because... if there are other houses that are also supplied via this pole you could potentially withdraw consent for the wayleave if the power company refuses to move the pole. If your house is the last in the line then this won’t work because the power company could simply take the pole down and leave you with a supply problem. But if there are other houses down the line, potentially you are in a good position to negotiate, as the power company is obliged to maintain supply to these other properties and the easiest way to do so is via the existing route across your property. You could offer to allow the wayleave to continue but only if they move the pole. I know someone who used this approach to get a supply which crossed their property buried at no cost to them.

Sorry - my post crossed with the one above which makes the same point.

 

[jimmy milnes]

Is the pole part of a chain that goes on to supply other properties or is house you are interested in the last in the line? The reason I ask is this....If the pole is in the garden then there is probably a wayleave agreement - under the terms of which the power company will be paying a small rent to the property’s owners for the right to place the pole in the garden and access it. Might be worth finding out about the wayleave because... if there are other houses that are also supplied via this pole you could potentially withdraw consent for the wayleave if the power company refuses to move the pole. If your house is the last in the line then this won’t work because the power company could simply take the pole down and leave you with a supply problem. But if there are other houses down the line, potentially you are in a good position to negotiate, as the power company is obliged to maintain supply to these other properties and the easiest way to do so is via the existing route across your property. You could offer to allow the wayleave to continue but only if they move the pole. I know someone who used this approach to get a supply which crossed their property buried at no cost to them.

Sorry - my post crossed with the one above which makes the same point.

Interesting post very much appreciated cheers

 

[Leglas]

We moved 2 to underground cables for the same reason and it was about £9k two years ago, and that was near Inverness (SSE do all of Scotland). You need to put in the trenches for the cables and the whole process took some time.

 

[Norfolk Horn]

Is the pole part of a chain that goes on to supply other properties or is house you are interested in the last in the line? The reason I ask is this....If the pole is in the garden then there is probably a wayleave agreement - under the terms of which the power company will be paying a small rent to the property’s owners for the right to place the pole in the garden and access it. Might be worth finding out about the wayleave because... if there are other houses that are also supplied via this pole you could potentially withdraw consent for the wayleave if the power company refuses to move the pole. If your house is the last in the line then this won’t work because the power company could simply take the pole down and leave you with a supply problem. But if there are other houses down the line, potentially you are in a good position to negotiate, as the power company is obliged to maintain supply to these other properties and the easiest way to do so is via the existing route across your property. You could offer to allow the wayleave to continue but only if they move the pole. I know someone who used this approach to get a supply which crossed their property buried at no cost to them.

Sorry - my post crossed with the one above which makes the same point.

One of my brothers did a very similar thing when wanting to extend a property and the pole was close to the the original property.

 

[hairycow]

As has been stated, if the cable coming off the pole only feeds that house there will be no way leave contract, if there are other properties fed off cabling coming from that pole in the direction away from the feed supply which would generally be an overhead transformer, a large grey box on a pole where the voltage drops from 11kv to your household voltage then you may have a wayleave contract with the property unless property owner has taken a lump payment at some point.
There should be a contract in the property documents or check with scottish power or whoever the network operator is up there.
the cost will all be dependent on where you want the pole moving to and are you wanting the line underground but I would guess your looking at 3-4k site access size of outage for works etc will all come into it.
good luck and hope you get the property.

 

[jimmy milnes]

As has been stated, if the cable coming off the pole only feeds that house there will be no way leave contract, if there are other properties fed off cabling coming from that pole in the direction away from the feed supply which would generally be an overhead transformer, a large grey box on a pole where the voltage drops from 11kv to your household voltage then you may have a wayleave contract with the property unless property owner has taken a lump payment at some point.
There should be a contract in the property documents or check with scottish power or whoever the network operator is up there.
the cost will all be dependent on where you want the pole moving to and are you wanting the line underground but I would guess your looking at 3-4k site access size of outage for works etc will all come into it.
good luck and hope you get the property.

Much appreciated

 

[devon deer stalker]

OK, much of the above is correct, it will not be 100's, it will be 1000's, especially if it has a transformer on it.
I did wonder as it's so close to the house it is only feeding the house?
Wayleaves are important, it is a legal document, with a clause to inspect, maintain and replace when necessary.
When I worked for BT it was a small part of my job in the planning department, the landowner would get paid for poles/underground plant on his land feeding 3rd parties, but from what I understand this changed after I left, if the poles were shared with 3rd parties they wouldn't get paid, it was only if the plant was being used solely for 3rd parties it would attract a W/L payment.
If no W/L agreement exists and it feeds 3rd parties you are in a much stronger position.

 

[Rick]

I had one moved on our property, they wanted £ 30,000 but said it was down to be replaced so only cost £9,000 in the end ( ours did have a transformer on )