Hi, We already have a green box outside our terraced house, came home from work yesterday and another one is in the process of being installed right next to our front door, it is alot bigger than the original one and looks awful, I have a disabled sister who visits regularly and parks her mobility scooter exactly where this box is, can it be moved? We had no notification of the box being installed.
Hi Muppet1969
Sorry to hear of your concerns with the placement of a cabinet.
Can you confirm, has this been placed on your property or on the street? Are you able to take some images of the green box and how it impedes any accessibility to your home please so we can investigate this further
Thank you for looking into this for us, much appreciated.
Is that the street or ur property?
Certainly looks like a public footpath:
There is going to be a lot of this where the new fibre cabinets have to serve the same footprint as the old coax cabinets. The new cabinet cannot be co-sited next to the existing one due to the adjacent gas supply pipe, so has to go as close as possible in relation to the existing road crossing duct.
Why can't she park her mobility scooter next to the cabinet.
It does seem a little bit inconsiderate to put the cabinet at that location and at that distance from the wall - how wide is the footpath now that cabinet has been installed? I think the magic number before this becomes an accessibility concern is 1200mm.
I would pursue this with the council and your local councillors rather than trying to get VM to care. It looks like it could have been sited right next to the existing cabinet with a little bit of rearrangement of where your VM box terminates. VM should also invest in alternative cabinet designs where footpaths are narrow rather than installing a standard unit everywhere.
