Private Line Ownership and Demarcation
LV Service Lines:
- All Service lines along or across public roads are owned and maintained by WEL Networks. Once they cross the boundary into private property they become customer owned.
- ROW's are private property from the public road boundary with ownership shared by the property owners supplied by the ROW.
- Lines in the ROW that are fused at the road (Service Lines) are privately owned from the public road boundary. Maintenance on these lines/poles is shared between the customers that are supplied from the pole.
- Lines in the ROW that are hard connected (un-fused) with service fuses on the poles (or inside pillars) in the ROW are owned by WEL. The customer owned portion starts from the pole or pillar.
- Cables or lines from the street that is fused at the building (Flats, commercial premises and some houses) are owned by WEL. The isolation fuses are also WEL owned. The individual unit fuses (tenancies) are owned by the customer.
- In a unit title situation, the LV cables/lines to the pillar or the pole with the service fuses is WEL owned. All service cables feeding each unit are customer owned from the boundary (or the pillar/pole if it is inside the boundary).
HV Service Lines (Spurs):
- Poles on private property feeding that one property (LV+HV) are
PRIVATELY owned. Private ownership begins from WEL's isolation fuses. For example the HV fuse at the road is the demarcation point provided the first pole of the spur line is in private land. (If the first pole is in the road reserve, then that first pole is owned by WEL. The subsequent ones in private property are
PRIVATELY Owned). WEL will own the transformer at the end of the spur line, but the customer will own the structure.
- If the spur line feeds multiple properties, owned by different people, then the whole HV spur line is owned by WEL.
Please note: Some individual customers may have specific agreements that vary to the conditions laid out above.
Last updated: Wednesday, 13 May 2009
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