Telegraph Poles for Landowners & Developers

Sorting telegraph poles for landowners is nobody’s idea of fun. There’s a pole in the way of your build, or a rotten one leaning over the paddock, or you need comms to a barn conversion and nobody will tell you whose job it is. You’ve rung around, and everyone says “not ours, try someone else.”

Try us. We work directly with landowners, farmers and developers, and we start by telling you honestly whose pole it is and who should

pay — even when that answer means it’s not our job. When it is our job, you get a fixed price in 24 hours and a crew that turns up when it said it would.

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  • Fully accredited teams
  • Working to Openreach specifications
  • Mobilised in 2–4 weeks
  • 15,000 poles installed

First things first: whose pole is it?

This is the question that stalls everything, so here’s the plain version. If the pole carries public network services — phone or broadband lines serving multiple properties — it almost certainly belongs to Openreach, its maintenance isn’t your bill, and works on it go through Openreach’s processes. If it stands on your land and serves only your property, it’s very likely yours — which means its condition, its replacement and its removal are your responsibility and your choice of contractor.

Plenty of poles sit in the grey zone: disconnected but never removed, serving a property that no longer exists, or carrying a single line nobody can identify. Send us a photo and the location and we’ll tell you honestly which category yours is in and who to call — even when the answer isn’t us. That honesty costs us the odd job and wins us the right ones.

What we do for landowners and developers

New pole installation

private networks, barn conversions, outbuildings, CCTV and farm connections, with the pole put exactly where you need it

Replacement of privately-owned poles

rotten, leaning or storm-damaged poles swapped before they become insurance claims

Pole removal and site clearance

redundant poles out and ground reinstated ahead of development, with waste properly documented

Diversions and rearrangements

routes moved to accommodate building projects, including copper jointing works where live services are involved

Pole testing before you buy or build

know the condition of every pole on a site before it's your problem

How it works for you

1. Send a photo and postcode.

That's genuinely all we need to start — no site visit fee, no forms.

2. Get the honest answer.

Whose pole, what it needs, what it'll cost — within 24 hours. If the right answer is "ring Openreach," we'll say so and tell you how.

3. Book it.

Inducted crews, supervised works, exclusion zones held, evidence gathered as we go.

4. Done properly.

Work completed, ground made good — lawn, drive or paddock left as we found it, minus the problem.

What it costs

Every site is different, but we publish honest ballpark figures rather than making you chase three quotes to learn the going rate. See our straight-talking price guide for typical prices and the factors that move them — access, ground, pole size and what’s hanging off it.

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Send a photo and your postcode — we’ll tell you whose pole it is and what it’ll cost, within 24 hours.

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FAQs

Shared service complicates ownership and consent, but doesn’t necessarily kill the idea. Send the details and we’ll map out who needs to agree to what before you spend anything.

Wayleaves and easements govern this, and it’s worth understanding your position before agreeing anything. We can advise on the practical side; for the legal side, we’ll say plainly when you need a solicitor rather than a poling contractor.

Yes — private poles for cameras, point-to-point links and farm networks are regular work, sited and installed to give the kit what it needs.

Usually [X hours on site — confirm] once booked; booking lead time is typically [X–X weeks — confirm], faster for dangerous poles.