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Is there anywhere I can see historic wayleave agreements relating to phone lines crossing my property?
So the freeholder of the building should provide that wayleaf permission to the telecoms company who installed the line. As the freeholder you should have a copy of that agreement in your paperwork. If you don't, then you might try with the telecoms company as they must store a copy of that to prove it has permission to install.
Please note I understand this from a telco perspective, not from a legal one, so there may be gaps in this advice, but the facts as I've related them are as correct from our side.
ReekBlefs-
Cheers, I'll send an email to openreach to see if they'll send me any details. It wasn't mentioned in the conveyancing and I didn't think to ask until now. I'm still hazy on who's liable if they're damaged over my property. Obviously I'm not going to try and burn down my neighbor's phone line but a tree that sits on another neighbor's land and half overhangs our garden was leaning very heavily on another line last year, tree has been pruned back now.
Edit seems like they wouldn't need permission after all.
Polygon
Is there anywhere I can see historic wayleave agreements relating to phone lines crossing my property? Tbh it's something I'd never though about until I was considering installing a fire pit in my new patio and realised I probably can't because there's a phone line 5m over the only spot it can be.
If I did go ahead and the cable gets damaged would I be liable? I can see lots of stuff about trees and phone lines, less about lighting fires under them. It wouldn't be the end of the world if it can't happen but it got me wondering whether I'm owed a historic wayleave fee as apparently that can take the form of a yearly payment, though not sure if that would apply to subsequent owners.