Neighbour's electricity on my property

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  1. Lemonade

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    I'd appreciate some advice please!
    Trying to sell my house neighbour's electricity from street to house crosses right through middle of my property across driveway. I've contacted Ausgrid who said it's not their responsibility to relocate that service. It can be relocated at my expense! There is NO easement on my property Ausgrid confirmed this, the solicitor also confirmed this when she issued contract of sale.
    This is putting potential buyer's off & I'm in a bush fire prone area it's bad enough having my own electricity running through property.
    My neighbour isn't interested in discussing relocation either!
    Thank in advance for any advice!
     
  2. Scott No Mates

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    When was it installed?
     
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    We have just paid $13k to put a new pole on the footpath to move the neighbour's electricity feed in from the street pole that crossed over our property by many metres. It was entirely up to us (this is Brisbane). Neighbour didn't have to pay anything, and nor did the power supplier.

    Luckily this was approved in the DA. If not, we had to get neighbour's approval and that wasn't going to be easy.

    Until we did it, our development came to a halt. For nine weeks.

    And for our own house, our feed in from pole (Telstra cable, not power in our case) to house crossed one metre over the corner. We wanted to change from Optus to Telstra and had we left it, no issues, but the new Telstra cable was not allowed to go in the same space as the Optus cable had been for 15 years.

    We had written approval from our neighbour to string the new Telstra cable across in the same place, but with a bit of clever thinking, the Telstra guy moved the feed from one side of the street pole to the other, and moved the attachment on our house over by about a metre and that solved the problem.

    I find it surprising that any prospective purchaser would even question this. It is so common.
     
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  5. Lemonade

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    About 20 years ago
     
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    No it's not rural.
     
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    It's inconvenient as it crosses driveway I've had past issues with deliveries - pallet of tiles couldn't be delivered as truck with crane couldn't enter driveway & I've got no chance of a large removal truck accessing driveway. It's the first thing people see when stopping out the front. The agent said it's putting potential buyer's off & I can't afford to pay Ausgrid to relocate costs will be in the thousands.
     
  8. Stoffo

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    I had a power supply issue a few years back

    When getting a new meterbox/supply I was informed that the new line wasn't allowed to cross the neighbors property by more than 1 meter (this was in Vic/Geelong) as it was effectively a "new connection".

    It meant moving the connection to the opposite side of my house (so the wire ran right across my place)......
    I went underground, much better look...

    Not much help to you, sorry (but may help someone in Vic)

    It must be low ? Surely there is a min height rule ?
    You could back in a truck and rip it down accidentally ..........
    Then it may fall under similar rules to a new connection !
     
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    I'm sure that's never happened before. ;)
     
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  11. Lemonade

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    Thanks for the info! Thinking what I can get delivered in a truck
    Thanks for the info I'm in NSW. Ausgrid inspector came here he didn't mention height. There is a tree i could do some late night work with a handsaw, the tree will definately knock it down
     
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    Measure out a 3m stick to check
    (The wires are insulated, but use a steel pole at your own risk :p)

    If Ausgrid have already been to site I don't like your chances :(
     
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    You do not own the air, find a buyer who is not a fussy fanatic.....or fork out to move it, your choice really.