Street power poles: is it dangerous to live near those?

[Marghe87]

I mean like the one here in the picture (not sure what the actual name is and can't find proper info on google)?

Why would it be dangerous?

No!

No. Think about it. There must be hundreds of thousands of them in towns and cities in the UK alone. If they were dangerous, it would have shown up by now.

it's a telephone pole, not a megawatt power pylon!

I might be wrong - but the one exactly like that outside in my road is for BT phone lines

They are for phone lines...

I am completely ignorant on this matter so apologies if it sounds very silly! I was reading that high power poles are dangerous and people shouldn't live too close to them but wasn't sure what these are?!

You are thinking of pylons which are usually in fields or substations.

They are not high power poles

They're definitely telephone poles.

It's the big pylons that carry power lines that some people have concerns about OP; no problems with telephones wires at all.

Oh OP 🤦‍♀️

Where did you read this?

Tinhatnutter.com?

You're right though, pylons too close have been tentatively linked to cancer and if they're far too close (thinking of a house in Bushey with one in their back garden) you will have trouble getting a mortgage. Telephone poles are absolutely fine.

Old telephone poles.

@PaddyDingDong yes, thank you, that is what I was referring to. I didn't know what these were

I always call these telegraph poles. Which must be totally old fashioned now seeing as we don’t send telegraphs anymore!

this is not fully reassuring

EMF. That's unbelievable.

@Marghe87 but the screenshot you've posted says they are talking about power cables, which is not what the poles you've posted are. They are telegraph poles which are for phone/internet

The actual name is a telegraph/telephone pole and it is not dangerous. Unless you're easily led by bullshit and conspiracy theories on the internet.

It's telephone cables isn't it?

@Labradinger I had just googled "telephone pole" which is what came out. I am not from the UK and I don't know the name of these/what they are, hence I was asking what their purpose is

👏👏👏 You've put that in my head now. 😂

I’d be all for a law that prohibits idiots from googling, would solve you this issue.

OP if you are not intellectually able to process basic information I don’t think randomly looking this stuff up is helpful