Neighbour has had Virgin Media wire installed on our wall

[CantankerousCamel]

Yes the awful neighbour I wrote about last week.

I wonder what I can do about it? Firstly because they’re making my lives a living hell and don’t see why I should ignore that they’ve put it there without permission and secondly because if we want to amend/change/upkeep that part of the property we cannot because the wire is there

AIBU to just cut the damn thing off?

Heebie

Yes that would be the grown up thing to do I suppose

Not as fun as cutting it though

Why, thank you Orangecake12

It isn’t hurting you in any way. Why stoop to their level? I read your other thread and combined with this one it sounds like you are both as bad as each other.

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Trust me, we are not.

I would like nothing more than to continue my life free of observation and nonsense. I don’t spend my time watching them. However I cannot have this wire permanently on my wall. The wall needs repair (for a start) and eventually we want to take it down and build a driveway.

However I cannot have this wire permanently on my wall

So tell virgin to move it.

Soup I’m fairly sure that is what I will do. -despite harbouring dreams of snipping the fucking thing-

Stupid to think of snipping it, you’ll get yourself into trouble. Obvious thing to do is to contact the company who put it there, as advised in the first few posts.

@foreststew only if you're with Virgin Mobile ;-

I don’t have a virgin mobile or virgin services.

Ring Virgin! They have to have permission if wires are going onto somebody else's property.

This is off Virgin Media Website! You should of signed a Waverly to give permission!!

@Booie09 she cant sign that, she isnt the owner. The other tenant may have approached the council for permisison and THEY may well have signed it....

Oh it's you again...that's what Virgin and sky do they install it wherever they have to. It's s council house just because you want to buy it (depriving people that actually NEED it) doesn't make you special. Like I said on the last thread you should have spent the 10k on a deposit for a "normal house" tough titty your neighbour is a twat.

Unfortunately once someone has given authority to VM or BT for an installation like that it is protected under the Telecommunications Act. They have the right to keep it there for ever, and you will commit an offence if you interfere with it.

"Your morality will not impact on what is best for my family" - no, your greed will. You're subjecting your children to a miserable childhood with awful neighbours for the sake of 100k. And you've spent so much money on the house yet your poor kids don't even have carpet down according to your other thread? Seriously skewed priorities there

Cheese

They don’t have a miserable childhood thanks.

As for your other wild generalisations....

Well kids are just dandy with a rug down on the floor, especially if it means they’ve got a safe outdoor space to play in, a lounge floor that is suitable to sit on, curtains and poles at the windows, carpented stairs that don’t wake them in the night and all the other things they enjoy that we have changed.

We do nothing frivolously. The children will have decent flooring when it is financially viable.

I don’t know if you’re being goady or you just have no concept of how much time and money goes into upkeep of basic living areas and frankly I don’t care.

£100k is nothing to be sniffed at, it will be amazing for them as much as anything else. We would love (for what it’s worth) to live out in the countryside but I want the kids to have freedom to meet up with friends, play and access to the city so we don’t.

None of that is ‘greed’ and even if it were, it’s my fucking call and my fucking family which you know nothing about.

glad I don’t believe anyone has given permission for it to be there.

CantankerousCamel
I don’t believe anyone has given permission for it to be there.

Its been said, but you need to find out who gave permission and whether that person has the right to give permission.

If you know that it is only you and the council then, talk to the council before you approach virgin.

Boney the council wouldn’t give permission because despite owning this house, I have the right to buy it, I also have the responsibility of maintaining the wall.

My issue is that if I buy it and this wire is in place, I have to leave it there and not redo the wall/driveway as I see fit. That could be problematic but I think I will simply call VM at the time and get them to reroute it.

I am also considering speaking to the housing officer but I’m so over the ‘tit for tat’ nonsense I’ve been forced to deal with that I think I might just leave it

No you don’t have responsibility for the wall just the hedge.
It’s not your house or wall.

Yes I do. I have responsibly for the hedges, wall and fences.

Hence why the wall is damaged on the corner and I need to fix it. It’s my responsibility

Easy way = contact virgin and ask them to move it

Difficult & exhausting way = getting uptight, upset and over-explanatory on this thread and only contacting virgin after several days of this.

Good luck - I'm sure it is easily sorted with minimal fuss

You have the right to buy.
You are not yet the owner.
So it wouldn’t be you that Virgin would approach for permission.

I’ve not suggested it would be me. I’ve said the council won’t give permission for a wire to be installed on a wall that’s not their responsibility to maintain.

Yes I can speak to my HO about this but I hate the daft tit for tat nonsense. That’s why I’ve done nothing about it til now and probably won’t do anything about it from now.

However one day, it’s gong to have to go