People like this take the Great out of Britain, it is not as though the box is going to affect his garden and certainly wont devalue his house, indeed, I suspect with fast broadband the desirability of the village may increase. Pricks like this need a slap and made to realise there are more important things than oneself.

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I would have thought they had automatic access rights to it by law. If not, why don't they move it onto the pavement then? Then give him years of problems with his phone line.  Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
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Hmm. Just listened to the bloke on Jeremy Vine Radio 2 and I think I agree with him. According to him, BT offered him money years ago and he said no. His reasoning is that Open Reach regularly visit the box for ongoing repairs - sometimes up to seven times during the day. He's on a busy junction, they park illegally and the bus cannot get round. He told them where to fit a box, for free, in a quiet lane opposite. They fitted one there 8 months ago. Some of the village now have broadband. They now need a bigger box and he has told them to fit it next to the other one they fitted in the quiet lane where parking is not a problem, a danger or an inconvenience. He claims to have tried to discuss this by contacting various management within BT. No one has ever got back to him. I think I'd do the same under the same circumstances - just why wont BT fit a box elsewhere - will it only work in his garden? Despite what is being reported, he seems to have support from quite a few in the village although one bloke came on saying that he was against him as his son couldn't do his homework. Jeremy Vine suggested that its his duty and he should 'take the hit' for the village. A village resident says he shouldn't and that he had her support for his stance.

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I think there is also a boundary dispute going on as BT are trying to say that the box is not on his property. But the box is surrounded on all sides by the guys front lawn. So either BT are lying about the boundary line or the old guy has extended his boundary over the years without permission.

it's great that if you stand up for your rights some people think and call you an obnoxious individual !!

the guy is 100% right in his stance for all the reasons given.

Iain,

I don't know the ins or out, but if the box needs updating then normally its the innerworkings, moving it to a quiet lane is not just a simple move, as cables need to be routed from the road, to the new box, so roads would need digging up, also his garden, (how else would they be able to move the cables) so that would be another complaint

When the box was built, it would have had a plan, were to place it, BT can't just pop boxes were they like, so a council/highways department would have been involved, why didn't he say Oy you can't put that box there when they started installing it, or if he bought the house, why didnt his solicitor pick up on the fact there is a BT box on his supposed front lawn, I would hazard a guess because he wasn't bothered... but now his a grumpy old who has no better things to do.

Maybe he has creeped his lawn outwards and taken over public footpaths etc

Either way he is causing a fuss about something minor, if he is that bothered that huis lawn has a big green box then tell them to get it off his land Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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Telephone cables are in trunking, there are very few that need digging up ground to alter cable runs, junction boxes that are modified for fibre optics need a power supply, that cannot be run in telephone trunking as a cable fault in the power line could take out thousands of lines, possibly that is the reason for digging up his lawn.
Should the box have been there when he bought the house then there would have been a wayleave from the previous owner which he cannot revoke, so that seems not to be the case my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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iain cooper wrote:

it's great that if you stand up for your rights some people think and call you an obnoxious individual !!

the guy is 100% right in his stance for all the reasons given.

Iain,

The guy is a selfish oaf,

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phew, I thought this thread was about me

you flatter yourself, although knowing you, I think the needs of the village would outweigh the disruption to a few metres of grass

Talking of obnoxious behaviour this happened to a chap in our village. bloody terrible
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09...ith-curry/ At work
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Talking of obnoxious behaviour this happened to a chap in our village. bloody terrible
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09...ith-curry/

by the box been there for so long i guess there maybe pretence for access over a period of time

what i would do is send in the engineer to do the work, with police presence and goad him till he breaks the peace and the police will arrest him and then no resistance... problem solved


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