How much do people get for having things attached to their property?
September 15, 2024
Postbox. Must get a kick back for having that installed in/on their property. I see billboards attached to terraced house ends too. How much do you for having stuff like that?
I knew a bloke who had a small sign for a “shop >>> this way” stuck on his wall. The guy from the shop gave him a very good bottle of whisky every christmas in return.
I expect the Royal Mail employ Beefeaters from the Tower of London to knock on someone’s door and say “we’re putting a postbox in your wall. Don’t like it? That’s a shame, the hole’s there already…”
My in-laws friends in Devon have the leg of a large road bridge on their land. Don’t know exactly how much they get in ‘rent’ per year but it’s enough to send one of the kids to private school.
I have a road sign on my property. Fuck all.
My mate used to have a billboard attached to the side of his house and I think his mother used to get paid £50 a month for it. The BIG kind like the full width of the house and they’d change the advert on it every month or so. I seem to remember their agreement came to an end and the company wanted to pay less so his mother tried to push back and get the same as she’d always got so they called her bluff and took it down 😳
You don’t get sod-all for a post box like this though. I used to have one on a house where I lived. Really handy for posting things though!
Bet the Crown owns that piece of the wall and the land below it.
My aunt gets about £10/yr for the power pole in her back garden.
Thats probably been there over 100 years
The building likely used to be the post office many years ago, and when it’s been turned residential the section containing the box would have remained Royal Mails property.
The current owners won’t have the legal right to remove it, though they can apply to do so.
Electricity pole in the back garden and we get like £7 a year.
I work in land registry – they probably get nothing. There will likely be rights and restriction title deeds on the landowner’s land registry title regarding maintaining and using the postbox and Royal Mail will likely be responsible for fixing any damage to the wall that the postbox sits on. I believe a land owner can also request to have the postbox removed/ relocated and Royal Mail will usually do it.
Things like electricity poles and underground pipes within the land boundary are more likely to have some kind of compensation attached to them, because the need for access onto the land to maintain them could be more regular.
To be honest I see having a postbox on a wall of my house as a benefit more than anything!
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I knew a bloke who had a small sign for a “shop >>> this way” stuck on his wall. The guy from the shop gave him a very good bottle of whisky every christmas in return.
I expect the Royal Mail employ Beefeaters from the Tower of London to knock on someone’s door and say “we’re putting a postbox in your wall. Don’t like it? That’s a shame, the hole’s there already…”
My in-laws friends in Devon have the leg of a large road bridge on their land. Don’t know exactly how much they get in ‘rent’ per year but it’s enough to send one of the kids to private school.
I have a road sign on my property. Fuck all.
My mate used to have a billboard attached to the side of his house and I think his mother used to get paid £50 a month for it. The BIG kind like the full width of the house and they’d change the advert on it every month or so. I seem to remember their agreement came to an end and the company wanted to pay less so his mother tried to push back and get the same as she’d always got so they called her bluff and took it down 😳
You don’t get sod-all for a post box like this though. I used to have one on a house where I lived. Really handy for posting things though!
Bet the Crown owns that piece of the wall and the land below it.
My aunt gets about £10/yr for the power pole in her back garden.
Thats probably been there over 100 years
The building likely used to be the post office many years ago, and when it’s been turned residential the section containing the box would have remained Royal Mails property.
The current owners won’t have the legal right to remove it, though they can apply to do so.
Electricity pole in the back garden and we get like £7 a year.
I work in land registry – they probably get nothing. There will likely be rights and restriction title deeds on the landowner’s land registry title regarding maintaining and using the postbox and Royal Mail will likely be responsible for fixing any damage to the wall that the postbox sits on. I believe a land owner can also request to have the postbox removed/ relocated and Royal Mail will usually do it.
Things like electricity poles and underground pipes within the land boundary are more likely to have some kind of compensation attached to them, because the need for access onto the land to maintain them could be more regular.
To be honest I see having a postbox on a wall of my house as a benefit more than anything!
Grade 2 listed! You pay more!
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