Highways v2

Following my post last week about the highways alterations I just wanted to highlight something.

Utilities companies have pretty much free reign to dig up the road and pop their cables down. In many circumstances, the highways department will try to change where and when this happens, but it will happen at the end of the day.

There are guidelines as to how deep these cables should be placed in the road or pavement, with the specification being less exacting for the footpath as it has to handle less weight of traffic. Specifically, the cables can be placed shallower.

So it's logical that if we want to turn the said footpath into a road, as I'd like to do at the Flowerpot, the cables will need to be sunk lower.

But it seems that the Council have to foot the bill for that. Which seems incredibly unfair, considering it was our footpath before BT came along. I don't mind them putting them there, but surely they should take the risk that we might want the bit of earth they've used back?

Might be time to take legal advice again.