Moving/Burying Electicity pylons & cables - feasible?
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Hi All, I've seen what could be the ultimate project house. A old farmhouse with 20 acres of paddock/farm land, plenty of outbuildings and 5 miles from the sea.
The problem is that there are some serious electicity pylons running through the land, spoiling the view and more more seriously being a potential health hazard.
Would it be in any way viable to have them moved or buried, or is this just one of those things that just can't be done - like moving a river or motorway?
The problem is that there are some serious electicity pylons running through the land, spoiling the view and more more seriously being a potential health hazard.
Would it be in any way viable to have them moved or buried, or is this just one of those things that just can't be done - like moving a river or motorway?
looking at the map here I'd say I'm looking at a 6-700m stretch between three pylons. I could imagine this to be prohibitively expensive, although this may be a reason why the property has come into range, so migth be do-able in a few years.
The cables run to within 50-70 metres from the farmhouse. Beyond the buzzing and spoling the viewm would this pose a serious threat to life?
The cables run to within 50-70 metres from the farmhouse. Beyond the buzzing and spoling the viewm would this pose a serious threat to life?
prand said:
looking at the map here I'd say I'm looking at a 6-700m stretch between three pylons. I could imagine this to be prohibitively expensive, although this may be a reason why the property has come into range, so migth be do-able in a few years.
The cables run to within 50-70 metres from the farmhouse. Beyond the buzzing and spoling the viewm would this pose a serious threat to life?
Last bit I would say no, otherwise would have been done before...The cables run to within 50-70 metres from the farmhouse. Beyond the buzzing and spoling the viewm would this pose a serious threat to life?
First bit......6-700m would certainly be expensive!! I can enquire a ball park figure if you like???!!
It's a big view! Although looking again, it looks like you could shorten that to 350-400m as that's the distance between two pylons that run closest to the house. Just for clarity, these are the National Grid looking big buggers with 6 (edit, not 4) thick cables and one along the top - not your local attached to wooden poles type affairs.
If you could find out ballpark figures that would be great
, I'm expecting your mate to laugh and say probably cost much more than the place is worth, but there's no harm in dreaming!
Edit for accuracy on pylons
If you could find out ballpark figures that would be great
, I'm expecting your mate to laugh and say probably cost much more than the place is worth, but there's no harm in dreaming! Edit for accuracy on pylons
Edited by prand on Tuesday 12th May 16:06
Driller said:
prand said:
Beyond the buzzing and spoling the viewm would this pose a serious threat to life?
Can you say Leukaemia?
The cost to bury hundreds of metres of the kind of power cables you're talking about - think about the connection and isolation kit that would be needed to make the transition from overhead to underground - would surely be immense. Per mile it might not be tooo bad but as a one off job for half a mile, if it really is proper high tension stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if it would cost £500k, maybe even more.
By the way, whatever you do if you need to borrow money against the property, or might ever want to sell on, then you need to seriously check this out. I saw a TV program about this issue affecting house prices and they got building society surveyors in to value houses affected and most said it wasn't their lenders policy to lend in such situations and wouldn't even offer a valuation.
Edited by Deva Link on Tuesday 12th May 22:49
Simpo Two said:
Driller said:
Can you say Leukaemia?
Statistically proven, or media paranoia in absence of actual knowledge?(Nobody seems to mind having mobiles strapped to their heads pumping microwave radiation into their brains from 0.5" range)
As others have said, though, it's perfectly possible to divert power lines or to take them underground, but the cost is usually very substantial.
Simpo Two said:
Driller said:
Can you say Leukaemia?
Statistically proven, or media paranoia in absence of actual knowledge?(Nobody seems to mind having mobiles strapped to their heads pumping microwave radiation into their brains from 0.5" range)
ETA found some info. Scroll down it's near the bottom.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/...
Just as well I refused to buy that house the wife wanted with the 220KV Pylon in the back garden.
Edited by V8A*ndy on Wednesday 13th May 01:43
V8A*ndy said:
I think I read somewhere that the building of new houses may soon be banned within 60 meters of a pylon or power lines.
Ms Harman said:
It is a difficult subject on which the science is advancing. I will draw this matter to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health.
That's quite a long way from 'may soon be banned'.Your not good at political speak, are you?
I'll translate:
'It is a difficult subject on which the science is advancing' = 'you're almost certainly talking b
ks, but I'm not going to say so straight out just in case I'm wrong, so that I can later claim to have supported your ideas''I will draw this matter to the attention of the Secretary of State for Health' = 'I have no intention of pandering to your hobby-horse, but again I'm not going to say so outright in case I'm later proved wrong. If I was remotely interested in promoting this legislation, I'd be drawing it to the attention of the person responsible for administering the Planning system, not the one responsible for running the Health Service.'
HTH
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