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I have a meeting with our local DNO and the estate manager next week on a farm we are currently rewiring section by section for one of our local country estate , clients .
The current split phase supply is in to a several hundred year old wooden barn , that has definitely seen better times !
We have had a purpose built meter shed built between the last pole ( About 3 meters apart ) and the end of the old barn ( This was for future proofing a possible head move ! ) in which all new sub mains feed back into .
The DNO have subsequently had a routine inspection visit after we had this built and condemned the supply cable and meter point , mainly due to the fact the supply cable comes half way down the pole before looping across to the barn at around head height for about 3 meters .
It has been suggested that whilst sorting this out they could just move the head and meter point in to the new purpose built meter shed ( which is closer to the pole anyway ) , but they are refusing to do so and now appear to question the fact that there is a problem with the low over head supply cable ( which they condemned in the first place !!!? ) , and now will not do anything without raising a connection move order and subsequently charging a fair sum ( I think about £800 +vat , at the last count !) .
My question is , does anyone know of a reason in their regs that would over rule them just walking away from the original low supply cable issue ?
I know this is a pretty closed shop question , but I am sure we have some DNO bods on here as well ????
Thanks in advance
The current split phase supply is in to a several hundred year old wooden barn , that has definitely seen better times !
We have had a purpose built meter shed built between the last pole ( About 3 meters apart ) and the end of the old barn ( This was for future proofing a possible head move ! ) in which all new sub mains feed back into .
The DNO have subsequently had a routine inspection visit after we had this built and condemned the supply cable and meter point , mainly due to the fact the supply cable comes half way down the pole before looping across to the barn at around head height for about 3 meters .
It has been suggested that whilst sorting this out they could just move the head and meter point in to the new purpose built meter shed ( which is closer to the pole anyway ) , but they are refusing to do so and now appear to question the fact that there is a problem with the low over head supply cable ( which they condemned in the first place !!!? ) , and now will not do anything without raising a connection move order and subsequently charging a fair sum ( I think about £800 +vat , at the last count !) .
My question is , does anyone know of a reason in their regs that would over rule them just walking away from the original low supply cable issue ?
I know this is a pretty closed shop question , but I am sure we have some DNO bods on here as well ????
Thanks in advance