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ESB burying equipment in my garden near electricity pole without my knowledge/consent

  • 30-04-2015 9:11am
    #1
    cars14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭


    I woke up to banging and found a guy in my garden digging a hole beside an electricity pole. I asked him what was going on. He was from Northern Ireland and was working on the behalf of the ESB (for a contractor). He said he was installing new equipment underground for a new house 250 metres away that was being built. I was never informed of this nor was my consent sought about this and its my garden.

    Can I get the files about this work from the ESB as I want to find out what ESB buried in my garden?
    Can I get them to remove whatever they buried in my garden?
    Do they need to ask my consent to come onto my land?
    Do they need to ask my consent to bury equipment for new houses on my land?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭brian_t


    cars14 wrote: »
    I woke up to banging and found a guy in my garden digging a hole beside an electricity pole. I asked him what was going on. He was from Northern Ireland and was working on the behalf of the ESB (for a contractor). He said he was installing new equipment underground for a new house 250 metres away that was being built. I was never informed of this nor was my consent sought about this and its my garden.

    Can I get the files about this work from the ESB as I want to find out what ESB buried in my garden?
    Can I get them to remove whatever they buried in my garden?
    Do they need to ask my consent to come onto my land?
    Do they need to ask my consent to bury equipment for new houses on my land?
    Thanks

    In a similar situation the ESB have always sought my agreement beforehand and explained what they were planning to do.

    I don't know what the legal position is though.

    It's ESB Networks you need to contact.

    http://www.esb.ie/esbnetworks/en/about-us/complaints.jsp#complaint


  • #3
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Here is their Code of Practice for Access to Lands

    https://www.esb.ie/esbnetworks/en/commercial-downloads/code-of-practice-for-access-to-lands.pdf


  • #4
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    cars14 wrote: »

    Can I get the files about this work from the ESB as I want to find out what ESB buried in my garden?

    You can make an Access for Information on the Environment Request (AIE) for free, if a less formal route gets you nowhere.


  • #5
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    It may be worth checking the title to see if a wayleave has been registered on the property, in favour of the ESB.


  • #6
    cars14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭cars14


    Thanks. How would I check if a wayleave has been granted on the property?


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  • #7
    Andrea B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    So, a lad from norn-eyerland buried something in your garden and told you he was contracted to the ESB?


  • #8
    loremolis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭loremolis


    cars14 wrote: »
    I woke up to banging and found a guy in my garden digging a hole beside an electricity pole. I asked him what was going on. He was from Northern Ireland and was working on the behalf of the ESB (for a contractor). He said he was installing new equipment underground for a new house 250 metres away that was being built. I was never informed of this nor was my consent sought about this and its my garden.

    Can I get the files about this work from the ESB as I want to find out what ESB buried in my garden?
    Can I get them to remove whatever they buried in my garden?
    Do they need to ask my consent to come onto my land?
    Do they need to ask my consent to bury equipment for new houses on my land?
    Thanks

    Tell them to get off your property until they write to you explaining what they want to do and how they intend to do it.

    When you receive that information you will be better placed to query them.

    Also, the distribution system is the responsibility of ESB Networks Limited not ESB.


  • #9
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    It may be worth checking the title to see if a wayleave has been registered on the property, in favour of the ESB.
    cars14 wrote: »
    Thanks. How would I check if a wayleave has been granted on the property?

    You could check the title.


  • #10
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    loremolis wrote: »
    Tell them to get off your property until they write to you explaining what they want to do and how they intend to do it.

    When you receive that information you will be better placed to query them.

    Also, the distribution system is the responsibility of ESB Networks Limited not ESB.

    I'd agree kick them off until you have been officially notified they are going to carry out the work. It only needs to be a guy calling at the door to tell you what they are going to do but they need to give you some warning if its not an emergency.

    We have a pole in the garden that feeds us and 3 other houses, its had to have had work done on it about every other year (replaced pole twice, replaced transformer once, replaced old style fuse fittings etc etc) but they never come unannounced and fit in with restrictions for access rather than making the job easy by driving across the garden.

    Once they made a mess of the garden but would have got someone in to put it right if I wanted.

    I'd be worried the guy in the OP's garden would leave a mess or do damage and then because there was no official notification that he was going to be on site deny any damage.


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