Couldn’t move in the seafront shops in Brid for beach windmills when I was a lad, so I imagine a fair few people might be very happy seeing wind turbines up and down the coast.
There are two near me. One in the land owned by a pub on an estate. The other on the car park of a hotel in town surrounded by flats. Stopped noticing them quickly. Living in East Yorkshire which is flat there are no elevated areas on the outskirts so have to be built where they are if people want the benefits.
Yes, beach windmills are so like wind turbines in size and appearance. Actual windmills would look more attractive than wind turbines but be of no use unfortunately.
Not the same. I think putting poles up on the doorstep of private houses on estates in order to provide broadband is a cheapskate way of doing it, it's ugly and unnecessary. The issue of the location of pylons, windfarms and Jim's mobile phone masts is a completely different one, as you well know. Oh and don't forget to chuck in solar farms if you're really trying to muddy the waters.
We will agree to differ. I wouldn’t want a pole in front of my house. I don’t like wind turbines spoiling the view but accept there is a need for them. People might change their views if they realised how many turbines would be necessary to replace other energy supplies in the mad scramble for net zero. And even then there would have to be back up sources for when the wind was insufficient bor ways of storing excess power supplied by turbines instead of paying operators to switch them off.
My reference to nimbyism was to people objecting to wind turbines is considered that by ones who don’t object to them or have views spoiled by them. One is a problem in cities, poles, the other, turbines is not one which affects cities. Though is this pole thing exacerbated in Hull because of KCOM. I now have full fibre available in Brid, including KCOM. No poles have been put up in front of houses or obstructing pavements that I am aware of. Is that because they have access to the system, unlike in Hull?
Is the pole further along on the outer edge of the pavement one that has been there for years to supply lines to the houses when they were built? That sign saying schools could have been better place nearer the road so as to not restrict the pavement as well.
If the school sign post had been located nearer the road the triangle part would heave encroached into the roadway and be in danger of being hit by buses and trucks. I guess there are rules and regulations covering those whereas these new poles for internet have no control, restrictions or need for planning approval.
You have to wonder which bright spark did a site visit and thought 'I know, I'll stick one here, it will block a drive a bit and is too close to another sign inconveniencing wheelchair users and people with push chairs, but I doubt anyone will be annoyed by it'. They don't help themselves, there's no wonder so many are objecting to them, the exemption from any planning permission is really daft.
The small trianglular cover is the end of the underground fibre tube to your property. If you applied for a fibre optic connection then the tube is extended to your actual property underground and a fibre is blown in and terminated on the outside of your house.
Why not just use some common sense and stick the school sign on the new pole and get rid of the one stuck right in the middle of the pavement
Wasn’t there a law many years ago, to move all street furniture away from kerbs, cos dopey and pissed up drivers kept crashing into them?
A few years ago people wanted to put up a plaque honouring the first man to receive a George Cross. He received it for going into a bombed building and its basement at great risk as it was in imminent danger of collapse. M and S occupied the new building on the site. The council said they must have public liability insurance in case it came off and injured some one (how many times has that happened?) M and S said they did not own the building they were just tenants. Went round in circles for months until it got into the national papers. Then it was sorted out quickly. Shameful goings on regarding someone who was a very brave person and carried out acts none of the pen pushing jobsworths would.
Cheers Assumed it was something like that. Not sure how they could get from there to my house underground without digging my drive up, but I suppose I’d discuss that if I ever decided to get it. Quite happy with KCOM though tbh
