"Sacha" wrote in message
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Bill Pritchard22/12/03 9:58

In answer to questions the cables are on the ground between 6ins to a
foot
from
the fence. They seem to start from his house, go under his side path,
under
the
fence then run up the garden to his various sheds and pigeon lofts. He
is an
obsessively tidy man and I think he just decided the cables would look
nicer
in
my garden. The person living here before me was a 92 year old woman who
paid
someone just to tidy the garden occasionly. I want the cables moved for
reasons
that involve both safety and stubborness,on the grounds that if it
mattters to
him, it matters to me. Finally, just what can and will the electric
company do
if I tell them?

My guess - and it's only a guess - is that they will say they're unsafe
and
make him move them, trunk them, bury them etc. Clearly, anyone with a
sharp
spade, axe, trowel or hoe could electrocute themselves in your garden. It
seems pretty clear he wanted them your garden because he knew that old
lady
wasn't going to do any heavy, sharp tooled gardening work. In other
words,
his family was safe while she wasn't.
I think you need to make that clear to your neighbour and tell him that on
those grounds alone, you need him to take the cables onto his land and
make
them HIS risk, not yours. If he's a difficult person, I don't know how
any
of this can be done nicely but I think you also have to make it very clear
to him that if he does not do this you will a) sue him if anything
happens
to you, your family or your property and b) failing suitable and immediate
action on his part, will contact the Electricity Board who will not only
disconnect that supply on the grounds of safety but will insist on more
expensive cabling which they will, undoubtedly, inspect rigorously.

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Sacha
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Thoroughly agree ..........exterior cables MUST be properly installed
.......theirs lots of rules about such things ......scare the pants off the
old goat .......you might also tell him he needs legal deeds to have
anything from drains to cables on your land and failure to do so will land
him with legal trouble