Make links. Share ideas and resources. Create a National Voice in the campaign to exclude Telegraph Poles from permitted development.
Email me your useful links at rlduffill@gmail.com (and please put useful links as the email subject) or leave them as a comment.
When I add a link from a comment I will delete it.
National UK Petition open until April 2024: Exclude telegraph poles from permitted development legislation
Who to Report to (East Riding – you should prepare a similar list for your area):
Highways Team
Tel: 01482 395700 (Phone lines active 8am – 4pm)
Email: highwaymaintenance@eastriding.gov.uk
Streetworks Team (for reporting health and safety concerns such as lights, signage, barriers, etc.)
Email: streetworks@eastriding.gov.uk
Works Permit Scheme
Email: permitsscheme@eastriding.gov.uk
Web: http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/…/road…/eryc-permit-scheme/
Also, I would recommend that you contact MS3 to register complaints/objections about the positioning of their poles.
https://www.ms3networks.co.uk/pole-objection
Phone: 0808 175 0486
Email: info@ms-3.co.uk
Address:
Owen House Owen Avenue, Priory Park, Hessle, East Yorkshire, HU13 9PD
The most up-to-date information about when pole installations will take place can be found on the one.network
OFCOM:
OMBUDSMAN (Note for Broadband Providers and NOT Network Builders):
Facebook Groups (note I can’t see private pages and sometimes I can’t see public pages – so bear with me while I check out the links sent to me).
News items from around the country.
| Blackpool residents unhappy as four IX Wireless masts erected on Heron’s Reach | Residents in the Heron’s Reach area of Blackpool are up in arms after no less than four phone masts were put up in their street – one of them right on the corner of a couple’s driveway. 20th October 2023 |
| Our homes are under threat by 10ft broadband poles – it’s going to look like a shanty town | Residents have hit out at a broadband company’s attempt to install ten-foot telegraph poles across streets in South Birmingham. People in the North Edgbaston and Ladywood areas have been left furious after fibre broadband network provider Brsk said it planned to erect the poles. |
| A better way to go i.e. with community engagement. | CAMPAIGN by Michael Gove MP – toob telegraph poles in Surrey Heath. |
| Broadband poles ‘desecrating’ Willersey, say residents | The installation of large wooden poles to support high-speed broadband internet cables is “desecrating” a Cotswold village, say residents. Villagers are unhappy with plans to place 15 39ft (11.8m) high poles in Willersey, near Broadway. |
| Broadway protester, 75, has no regrets over broadband sit-in | A 75-year-old man says he has no regrets over his arrest after repeated sit-ins at a protest against broadband supplies being put in at a village. |
| I came home to find my house surrounded by telegraph poles… | Woman arrives home to find the giant masts – one at the back of the property and one at the side – obliterating her view. There are now three of the beams towering over her small home. National Mail 10 Nov. |
| Broadway residents prepare battle front | Cotswolds residents in small village 5th Oct |
| Eyesore telegraph poles anger | Bolton 11th Jan |
| Residents demand removal of TPs | Highwood estate, in Tean, Stoke on Trent 15th Oct |
| Openreach pole sparks protest | Marlborough, Swindon 10th Oct |
| Randomly appearing TPs | Derbyshire Live 14th March |
| Report on our petition launch | Homebuilding & Renovation website 21st Oct |
| Fury at telecom pole | Daily Mail 17th Oct Wigan report |
The Companies involved:
| Asterion Industrial Partners | Asterion Industrial Partners partners with MS3 to expand the company’s fiber network and create an emerging fiber platform in the North of England |
| TradeRisks | TradeRisks advises MS3 Networks on fibre network expansion |
| WelchCivils | MS3 Contractors |
| Hull ECO Park Ltd | MS3 Link to Yorkshire Energy Park |