[juliem]

Does anyone know on this forum what happens when land changes hands..does the compensation by National Grid for pylons.telegraph poles transfer to the new owner?

[Old Shep]

Yes it does

[Ghdp]

Yes. We gain the princely sum of £8 or so pa. it comes with land!6

[CarolineJ]

There's compensation for electricity poles on land??

*looks at telegraph poles on 6-acre field*

I suppose it goes to the Scottish Ministers for a croft tenancy...?

[Foobar]

Yes, it's called a wayleaves payment.  You just need to contact the local electricity transport company to let them know you are the new occupant.  Your local electricity transport company will be the one that you would phone if you had a power outage (in my case it's Western Power Distribution, in Wales)   Then you will receive a cheque once a year (usually before xmas - I got mine at end of Nov I think) .... if the name hasn't been transferred then it is likely that a letter would arrive at your house for the previous occupant with a cheque in their name (unless they have their mail redirected).

[farmershort]

There is also a few companies going around offering you a one-off cash payment for the wayleaves. They contact the electricity board or whoever, and they take 20% of the payout. Apparently there's nothing stopping you doing this yourself by just ringing up the electricity board and asking them for a one-off instead of annual payment. it's thousands of pounds per pole according to the flyer.

Our neighbour is just trying this now - direct with Western Power - so we'll see how he gets on.

[UPoneacre]

Well done for raising this topic.

I wasn't aware of that and we've never received anything for the pole in our veg garden so time to look into that (could do with a contributiion towards the cost of keeping the hens under cover  )!

[juliem]

My father gave me a deed of gift of 8 acres of land some 5 years ago.He always told me that the wayleave payments did not transfer with new ownership.Mind you he also believed the land was not mine to after the 7 years has elapsed.Consequently I never got round to claiming them...worth about £60 a year.
He's recently passed away (he was 96) so another thing on the "to do list."
Wondering what proof they need..deeds?
They are only poles so what can you get for a pylon?

[Foobar]

I get £26 for two x two-poles.  Wow.

[harmony]

We got our poles swopped into our name. How could they not change with new owners? The chap we bought the land from had died. They don't do back payments without an argument. We have two and one has the switch for shutting down a section in the village should they need to and we get around £25pa. I would think the payments are pretty standard.

[juliem]

Yes rang wayleaves and they just want me to write a letter...asked if it could go directly into bank acc but tney said tney prefer to send a cheque in tne post....less open to fraud  apparently

[bazzais]

Love wayleave - we get more in rental than what our services cost at the end

[bazzais]

did take me three years of writing to western power (although the cheques come from openreach) to get the name changed on the cheques from the previous owner to me

[UPoneacre]

Possibly a daft question but does anyone know if the same applies to BT poles?

[william_wt]

No, I'm told you don't.
William