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Tree work near electric Wires!
My sister moved house last year and was aware of a pine tree on her property which had electric wire running through the crown of the tree. Western power distribution, have said work needs to be carried out on the tree. The question Is how much are they allowed to remove from the tree?
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They generally cut enough off to stop branches catching in the wires even in strong winds.
In the sticks near Peterborough
if its going to interfere with the electrical wires they can legitimately remove anything that is going to touch the wires, the whole tree if necessary!
Oh really! The wires actually run close to the trunk! could mean removing half the crown if that's the case. She wouldn't be upset to see the whole tree go, but I don't suppose they would remove all of it. I've seen poplar tree with have the crown missing due to this sort of work, looked awful but I guess they are safe now.
I've got a similar problem, the wire runs through a huge conifer hedge. I would like to remove the hedge, but nobody seems to want to take on the work. The pole supporting the wire is in the hedge as well, I get paid about a tenner a year for having it on my land!
If the cables run through the hedge then it should be the power company who do any work to clear the growth around them. Don't attempt to do it yourself, or to have a normal gardening contractor do it.
a friend of mine built an annexe and had to pay £10,000 to have a pole and "box" moved. 2 years later they came back and said any tree which could "fall onto the pole" had to be removed and they cut down about 6 mature beech trees. It was they who decided where the pole had to go, she was powerless ( no pun intended ) and had to let them cut the trees down.
My neighbour had a huge conifer with the electric cables running through,the power company contractors cut it down to the ground at her request.
More people should look at the statutory legal requirements and not rely on what contractors tell them. There are plenty of engineering options available to divert lines, put up abc or compensation arguments to have over tree removal. There is no statutory requirement for healthy trees within falling of the power lines to be removed.