Wayleave agreement for Virgin
Hi, not sure where to go with this one - having recently moved house and checked that Virgin could migrate my service, and having been fobbed off a number of times it turns out that the cable trunking under my shared driveway has collapsed and needs repairing. I should say, the trunking was put in place by the developer in advance of any Virgin service being available at time of completion but a cabinet is now in place at the end of the road and my neighbours both have blue rope coming out their trunking ready for cabling to pull through but I don't.
A Virgin engineer has been out an explained that the blockage is definitely under the driveway according to the company who does the surveys and repairs on their behalf. When I broached this with the neighbours they were more than happy for this to take place as we have a moulded block driveway that can easily lifted and replaced with minimal access disruption. Virgin's wayleave agreement to gain permission to lift the shared driveway access essentially amounts to my neighbours giving them carte blanche to lay cable on their actual built property and not just the shared driveway, move vegetation and consent to cabling above ground, attached to the house whilst allowing them access to their assets at any time. Additionally, they require 6 month's notice of any works that might affect any of their assets which isn't an issue if we know the route of the cable but still.
One of my neighbours understandably is refusing to grant permission to such a wide ranging agreement. Virgin maintain its communications industry standard, but as far as I'm concerned they should have no issue drafting one that limits them to the extent of the existing trunking that needs replacing as they've done a survey to assess location. I'm awaiting their reply, but wonder if anyone has had similar experiences and any advice? At present we've been making do with 4G internet and would like to future proof ourselves by getting the fibre cabling sorted (and the neighbours understand that they too would benefit this if they ever changed from Sky) but this agreement seems far too generalist!