On 1/09/15 12:36, Jonathan Brewer wrote:
If you want to use entirely private land and you have permission from the owners, there's no planning or consent required.
You may still want to talk to your lawyer about, eg, registered rights of way over the private land -- particularly if you need a fibre run across owner A's land to provide service to owner B. Even if the existing owner A says "sure, no worries" because they like owner B, some years down the track when a bunch of circumstances change it might be a problem. So, eg, something registered on the property title could provide more protection if you're building a for-third-party service on it. In a rural setting an option for using private land might be to try to get a geographic group of land owners all to agree to a fibre plan that provides service, and then get a lawyer to write it up/everyone to sign it (perhaps, eg, with those whose land is used/needs access for maintenance getting some discount). Ewen PS: Do note that those low end costs are "under ideal conditions". This really is a "YMMV" situation :-)