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New build and existing utilities cables

  • 10-01-2025 09:09PM
    #1
    pip-pop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hi everyone! 👋

    I’m planning to build a house on a site and recently got a GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) survey done. The survey shows utility cables running beneath the site, specifically from Eir and Virgin Media. I’m wondering if anyone here has experience with something similar.

    Are there any regulations or limitations when it comes to building close to or over these types of cables? Do I need to maintain a minimum distance, or is it possible to build directly above them with special precautions?
    I have no wayleave for those cables.

    I’d really appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance! 😊

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Comments

  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,886 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I dont have any experience myself with this type of situation but I would suggest you contact the providers involved asap as you will have to at some stage anyhow. Have you established if they secured wayleaves for their cables? Whats the story with the site? Did you buy it or has it been in family ownership? Who would have given these companies permission to lay the cables originally?



  • #3
    Paul_798
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭Paul_798


    It would be very very unusual for eir to run cables through a private property. The cable TV companies historically operated in legal grey areas and just ran stuff anywhere they could.

    Virgin presence suggests urban area. I'm wondering if this was a site that has been broken up and the eir cable was providing service to a building on the site. In that case there would be no wayleave. But that is something that should have been sorted when the site was legally split up.

    When providing eir service to a new site then the premises owner installs the ducting to the site boundary and eir then run in the cable.

    The situation here is going to be dependent on the site history.



  • #4
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,886 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I see the OP was logged in yesterday but couldn't be arsed replying to a couple of basic questions. That's me out.



  • #5
    pip-pop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭pip-pop


    Thanks for replying. Sorry if I haven't done it before.



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