Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 15, 2008 7:54 am Hi all
I was wondering if anyone was building on subdivided land? We are currently and were asked by our builder to put in a service pit request. This is so we can have power connected to our house. It was already paid for by the person who sold the land to us, so no cost to us to have it installed. After 3 months we still hadnt had it installed so I called TXU which is no TRU ENERGY and was told the pit had been put on hold as there was a dispute. TRU ENERGY do not want to put in a service pit with connection directly from street to house underground, they say the legislation has changed and we are seen as one block and should be treated as one house! They said we need to have group metering. This involves re directing the power from the front house ( not owned by us) and digging a trench under the driveway which is 4ft thick. Then directing their power to our service pit and connecting our house. Two meters will be place on the common property (driveway). When we signed back in oct last year the legislation had not changed but now we could be up for the cost and this is why the builder put it on hold as he didnt want to pay for it. So my builder is putting in a exemption. I dont know if anyone is currently having this problem or what I can do. I would love any advice. Thanks Eliza Re: Connecting services to our house 2Oct 15, 2008 8:12 am Yeah this is a tricky one. For multi lot subdivisions the authorities are preferring to keep metering in some cases servicing to a minimum. This probably seems unfair being only a two lot development.
Probably up to the developer (front house) to ensure your lot is serviced. I wouldn't stress out too much, leave that to the builder to sort out (and pay for!). Going under the driveway should be a realatively simple bore process, hopefully costs to be paid by builder. You should have implied easement rights for the supply of power through their land to Common Property, though ideally the supply would run down the common drive? before the metre and branches to each house. Re: Connecting services to our house 3Oct 15, 2008 8:18 am I should explain the front house is a old house the back yard has been sub divided. The house at the front already has power connected from the street in over head lines. But It should be up to the builder or company we building through to sort it out but they keep hand balling back to the builder to the developer to tru energy and then back to me. "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 23922 Hi JW I just read your post and I find this situation quite strange. When we build, we get a temp pole for construction which becomes the permanent pole for one of the… 1 3947 2 7756 |