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Hi @ProDave apologies I could have been clearer, the poles actually belong to the power company. I also own the agricultural land, so movement not a problem. Given no way leave is in place, the pole and lines are within a close distance to the new building, I can’t see how the power company aren’t required to move these? From all my research my expectation is they should move to make them safe.

Hello, I have a property that has a low voltage electrical cable & telephone cable terminating on a part of my residential property. It then feeds to an old barn where my meter lives (used to be an old farm) then underground to my house. The final pole also carries an electrical cable underground to our neighbour, and an overhead cable for telecoms. One of the barn walls is slowly collapsing, and may take the meter with it. The other barn also needs tearing down, so I plan to replace both with a garage/workshop. I'm looking for advice on how best to achieve this without too much financial impact. The pole and underground cable servicing our neighbour is where I would also want to dig foundations. I've attached an image to this post. There are no wayleaves for either the electrical or telecoms cable. Openreach say they "would" have a wayleave agreement with the power company (none could be produced) and the right to fly wires. I've created a list of things I think need to happen ideally. I'm aware there are 3 people in play; UKPowerNetworks, Octopus, & an electrician. If possible I'd like to leverage the fact the meter is at risk, and no wayleaves are in place to reduce the cost. Move electrical meter to an external meter box before collapse of building Replacement of terminating pole Moving underground cable that services the neighbour and would be in the way of new building Burial of cables from perhaps middle pole in a similar direction