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Did this cabinet placement really deserve a complaint?

I don't think that's a thing, or maybe it is done in exceptional circumstances.
The cable ducts go under the pavement, so placing the cabinet in the back garden would be useless.
It certainly could be a thing where it's convenient for the Telco. Obviously resiting a cabinet from the public highway which is adjacent to a pavement chamber and ducts is not going to be convenient.

Telcos are certainly used to coming to agreements to use private land for equipment and cable routes where (a) public land is not readily available, or (b) the landowner cannot be persuaded to do it under a Wayleave - usually because it's equipment that doesn't benefit them directly.

A former employer I worked for used to get a stupidly small amount cheque every few years from BT Property and Premises for equipment on their land that didn't provide their premises any service but was important for BT (as it was before OpenReach happened). The agreement was drawn up in the days when pounds, shillings and pence were a thing.

I used to keep the cheques on my office pinboard as there was no obvious income account to pay it into, and the cost of banking the cheque for the organisation would exceed the value of the cheque. It probably annoyed the bean counters at BT Property and Premises that it was never paid in.
 
Just to put a different point of view out there, because this place is full of people who appreciate telecoms...

....should we support members of the public who sensibly query stuff like this?
I get your sentiment and if the homeowner had expressed reservations about the cabinet being located outside his home and sought to find a sensible alternative then that's one thing.

However, to claim it's "ruined the whole street" is a bit of a stretch. That makes it sound like he lives in some idyllic paradise when the reality is you walk down the road from his house and there's all manner of takeaways, bus stop shelters, bins, and other street furniture.

I get your point, and agree with you but this guy hasn't helped his case with some of his wording.
 
There is hyperbole involved of course but also using code powers to drop street cabinets all over the place probably does need to be looked at, some of the active ones that the smaller altnets deploy are massive.

I am not particularly bothered by the looks of it, my main concern would be how that wall is meant to be maintained with no access to the area behind the cabinet, and it would be nice if every network identified unused cabinets and removed them rather than letting them rust to bits and end up in a dangerous state. I also think there needs to be more attention paid to the narrowing of pavements caused by siting these cabs.
 
In the case of the cabinet features then no, the placement isnt that bad compared to others, although with the smaller cabinets it may be better in an underground chamber if possible.
Still at least it's not a complaint about a cabinet blocking someone's "drive" that "drive" being where someone has tarmacked their garden to create extra parking, accessing it by driving over a (non dropped kerb) pavement
 
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Here's another example of a big deal being made in Deal of street cabinet where the property owner is claiming the cabinet has been built on an area of the pavement with a easement in their title deeds.

 
Here's another example of a big deal being made in Deal of street cabinet where the property owner is claiming the cabinet has been built on an area of the pavement with a easement in their title deeds.

It very clearly shows in the image that the "private property" stops right where the cabinet is placed.

Time and money going to be wasted, in my honest opinion.
 
Of all the placements people could complain about, putting a small box on the public pavement like this doesn't seem even remotely worthy of a moan. But that's just my opinion:

Hi dog meanwhile thinks it's in just the right place looking at the way it's looking at it in the photos
 
It very clearly shows in the image that the "private property" stops right where the cabinet is placed.

Time and money going to be wasted, in my honest opinion.
I was bored so visited the Land Registry.

His parents had a garage and adjacent land in the next street transferred to them because of whatever in 1985 that has restrictive covenants against them, easements too. These were inherited on his deeds when the two titles were merged.

The strip of land he's using as evidence isn't his according to the Land Registry. His property boundary stops at the border with that land and it isn't mentioned in his deeds at all. The garage had its own title number and was merged with the title on the house. His screenshot suggests that land was transferred out going by that it has its own title number: easements don't get their own title.
 
Here's another example of a big deal being made in Deal of street cabinet where the property owner is claiming the cabinet has been built on an area of the pavement with a easement in their title deeds.

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If this man puts all his effort into exercising instead of moaning about boardband boxes, he'd be the most handsome man in the street rather than known to be a NIMBY!

About the grafitti, do boardband companies put anti vandal paint on their cabinets?
 
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There is no way that documents exist proving that the property boundary is actually the end of some patch of concrete rather than the wall around a front garden, this guy is going to waste a lot of time. Though a more sensible option would have been for Nexfibre to put it around the side where there's a load of space.
 
The comments on the story on Kent Online are pretty savage, especially referencing his IVF crowd funding.

The story itself other than ownership of the land is dubious. Workmen telling a pregnant woman to jump over a hole seems unlikely, them calling the local authority to claim damage to the street when there was none doesn't do him any favours.

It does read like he's on the blag to see what he can get and is hoping to make enough noise he'll get paid to go away. He probably will get paid, too.
 
The comments on the story on Kent Online are pretty savage, especially referencing his IVF crowd funding.

The story itself other than ownership of the land is dubious. Workmen telling a pregnant woman to jump over a hole seems unlikely, them calling the local authority to claim damage to the street when there was none doesn't do him any favours.

It does read like he's on the blag to see what he can get and is hoping to make enough noise he'll get paid to go away. He probably will get paid, too.
They're usually pretty savage. keeping in mind Kent as a whole is typically "fairly Conservative"

and yeah, that's the unfortunate side of these things. You could almost call it fraud, if it does fall under the definition of what "fraud" is.
 
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