What Simon didn't add is around the neighbourhood, the power lines are still above ground. It isn't unforseeable that these will be buried at some point. Just not sure of the time frames. A lot of Mt eden, Mt Roskill, Sandringham area all have power lines above ground. They did bury the power lines at the Sandringham Rd shops a couple of months back. A lot of rah rah rah in the local paper about how it beautifies the place etc (job also included doing the footpath nicely etc). However I wouldn't be surprised if nothing else but power was laid down there. Richard suggested
Getting a Council to accept microtrenching is a challenge, but maybe we can all pressure them on that one. They certainly want the development. So even if this doesn't happen, perhaps putting things in motion so when the move is to bury the power cables, they will have to lay some other cables down there (even if it is just pipes with strings along there so someone can later on pull fibre/cat5 through.
regards lin