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2001chavezl's avatar
2001chavezl
Tuning in
8 months ago
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Move a Virgin Media green street cabinet

We have a Virgin Media street cabinet directly in front of our drive which we need moving as it is partially blocking access to our driveway (by almost a metre). Please see pictures. Aside from it c...
  • Cardiffman282's avatar
    Cardiffman282
    8 months ago

    Purely for purposes of expanding on this lively thread (I duck out of taking any view on the specifics) I did come across the following older thread regarding privately commissioning VM to move cabinets (which I understand the OP has no wish to do - again this is just for information purposes) which makes reference to lots of very obscure VM teams and contact details that I have never come across before https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/Move-a-Virgin-Street-Cabinet/td-p/5180344

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Tudor
Very Insightful Person
8 months ago

Viewing the picture supplied by Nodrogd I can see there is a bus stop immediately outside your house and NO dropped kerb. I believe it’s illegal to drive over a pavement to your home without a dropped kerb in place. It’s much more of a H&S issue of people driving over the pavement that the location of the VM box. I’m sure the local council will assist if there really is a problem. It’s nothing to do with VM.

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japitts
Very Insightful Person
8 months ago
Tudor wrote:

Viewing the picture supplied by Nodrogd I can see there is a bus stop immediately outside your house and NO dropped kerb.

nodrogdhas, I think, posted a picture of another example - to illustrate the point of a cabinet being legally sited before development works change its situation. There has been a previous case on here where a local "rag" style newspaper reported a householder's complaints over the VM telecoms cab blocking their paved garden (I use the phrase instead of "driveway" intentionally).

It didn't take much research into historic Google Street View displays to show then, that the cab was installed when a substantial hedgeline separated the pavement from the garden. Over time, the garden became paved over and the hedgeline removed, to leave the telecoms cab in situ. By the logic of the H&S theory above, I wouldn't be surprised if that were also VM's fault!

But yes, I'm fairly sure you're right about driving over a raised kerb. Part of the dropped-kerb is to create the legal right of vehicle passage.