And approximately 5.2m between the pit in front of my house and the pit in front of theirs.
If the ground is tarmaced, then start from an assumption of £200 a metre to dig and reinstate the necessary trench and ducting. If it's across a public road, needs to be deeper and better reinstated to support vehicle traffic (say £300/m), and possibly to be hand dug around gas, water electricity and Openreach services - most of those are much deeper than VM would dig, but the position of drains, access chambers and the like can complicate matters. For any streetworks there's "mobilisation costs" associated with bringing workers, material sand tools to the site, and a partial road closure would need additional barriers, traffic signs, possibly a survey and maybe the expense of temporary traffic lights. In practice this usually makes single "cross the street" connections unviable as there's a set budget for new connections, possibly around the £600 mark, and that's easily exceeded when digging across a road, although there's no harm in asking. In some cases customer can make a contribution to make up the difference, but that is uncommon - if VM say no, how much would you contribute? A more likely connection option is if sufficient people on your side of the road will express an interest, because VM may then recognise a business case for the costs of running cabling down the pavement on your side to serve multiple properties.
