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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:13 pm
by m.wakeford23
Firstly I am new so please be gentle!!!
I am attempting to install a cross over extension outside my house to gain access to a planned new driveway, problem I have is that there is a concrete lamp post in the way. Has any body come across this situation or any thing remotely like it. I need to know whether I get charged (I know I will) and how much.
Thanks in advance
Mike
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:47 pm
by Tony McC
You will need to contact the Street Lighting or the Highways department at your local council and they will then send you a small mountain of meaningless paperwork that you need to fill in to explain just why you want the lighting column to be moved.
Some time later, usually when it's a day too nice to waste being stuck in the office, some techno-bod will wander out, take a look, scratch his/her head, tut quite a few times, and then scurry back to their normal troglodyte existence to prepare yet more paperwork, this time embellished with BIG NUMBERS.
To be fair, charges vary from place to place. Some LA's subsidise work such as this and ask for a token payment of, say, 400 quid, while others really want to scare you off and so think of a number and quadruple it. Charges of 1800-2500 quid for this sort of task are not unheard of.
All you can do is contact them and hope you live in one of the more lenient boroughs.
Edited By Tony McC on 1135270121
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:15 pm
by m.wakeford23
Thanks for reply. I will speak to local electricity board to see who has duristricion over the "bloody" lamp post.
Mike
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:36 pm
by danensis
On the "Grand Designs" programme the couple in Scotland who had a lamp-post in the way just upped and shifted it one weekend when no-one was around. Presumably a lot depends on which way the cables run.
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:28 pm
by m.wakeford23
I run an electrical firm in sussex an thought about removing this myself. Problem I was facing: were to isolate supply from, one cable would need extending regardless were it was placed, this lampost is approx 6 metres high and concrete & lastly I do not get on with my neibour over parking issues hence why I am going for a cross over. I suppose if all else fails I could reverese into it hard!!!!!!
Mike
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:17 pm
by flowjoe
Always best to go through the right channels on something like this as its sods law there will be a utility cable/pipe in the proposed new position of the post and without the right liability insurance your in deep financial s~*t when you damage a fibre optic line, and then theirs the obvious health and safety issues with gas, leccy etc etc ……
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:51 pm
by daysleeper
we had one (metal though not concrete) moved in Devon a couple of months back for about £100. It only had to go 2 foot though.
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:10 pm
by pepperday
On a site at present where we have to move a couple of these. Tony McC. is right. Biggest problem is its supply. either electric company( your doomed) or private.