wayleave...are you getting paid?

[Maz]

I'm having some building work done at my house and this will involve the relocation of a bracket owned by BT which carries a telephone line. This bracket is located on the corner of the house. The man from BT said I should be getting a 'wayleave payment' (this is a type of rent that BT pays to people whose property they are using to pass their lines across). To be honest, I'd never even heard of 'wayleave' until he told me, so I'll have to look into it!

I bet it's a really trivial amount like only a tenner a year or something [?].
Is anyone on here entitled to it and are you claiming it? Thanks.

 

[summerdays]

I read about it recently and have a BT pole within the bounds of my plot. I thought about claiming it to see if they would prefer to move the pole. But so far I haven't done anything about it. Can you back date your claim?

From the bit I read I thought it has to be a BT line/pole that serves other people than just your household - which my pole does. But I could be wrong on that front.

 

[Red Light]

I get about £50 a year for having an eleccy pole in a field.

 

[Maz]

Thanks for the replies - will be in contact with BT again to claim my lost millions.

 

[dellzeqq]

do some research. There's usually a market rate for this kind of thing. I've seen people scoop loadsadough on oversailing licenses.

 

[Crackle]

I read about it recently and have a BT pole within the bounds of my plot. I thought about claiming it to see if they would prefer to move the pole. But so far I haven't done anything about it. Can you back date your claim?

From the bit I read I thought it has to be a BT line/pole that serves other people than just your household - which my pole does. But I could be wrong on that front.

Friend of mine had that and they could only access it from his garden. He got a bit fed up with them trampling over the place and denied them access unless they could produce the wayleave documentation: They couldn't. In the end he forced them to put up a new pole elsewhere and re-route the cabling and then got them to remove the old one.

Personally I wouldn't have been bothered but he likes such games.

Worth looking into Summerdays. If you've got a bus stop outside your house you can get your council tax reduced as well.

 

[ohnovino]

If it was put in before you bought the house, the past owners may have agreed to a one-off payment.

 

[Maz]

If it was put in before you bought the house, the past owners may have agreed to a one-off payment.

Yes, it was there before I bought the house. You could be right.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

would that not come up in a solicitor's search prior to sale?

 

[Chromatic]

I found a small wooden stake stuck in the ground at the end of my house once and thinking nothing more of it just pulled it up and threw it away. It was in a bit of land that was my property but looked like it was the road verge (we live up a country lane where my boundary is the roadside). About a week later I got home from work one night to find a telegraph pole had been erected in my garden and all without any communication from BT whatsoever. After some months and numerous phone calls and being passed from pillar to post (geddit?) I was getting nowhere with getting it removed, so I did what I should have done weeks earlier which was phone a friend who works for BT, he had a word with the someone who had some clout and within a few days it was gone, and the cabling they had to do was done in a more suitable manner.
Then many months later I got a letter from BT telling me that since it was some time since they had heard from me concerning the dispute they were closing the case.

 

[summerdays]

If it was put in before you bought the house, the past owners may have agreed to a one-off payment.

No this one was put in whilst we were here ... no notice that they were going to do it and for some reason I didn't even think to comment at the time - nor did they tell me about Wayleave - I suspect they think it isn't private property but it is. They just told me the one across the road wasn't high enough.

 

[subaqua]

would that not come up in a solicitor's search prior to sale?

yes. when i ived in N wales we had a substation access route across my land ( all 12 inches of the path) the wayleave from the previous owner was highlighted. he had granted them 999 years access for the princely sum of £1 a year paid in full in advance. the wayleave was dated 1950 !!

 

[lukesdad]

I have 11 leccy poles and we did get backpayment for them. It didn t come up in the searches. Not sure about BT. Although years ago at a comercial property I did get them to move them, as they wouldn t pay up. They were not happy bunnies.