topic Re: Overgrown trees affecting phone line in Broadband

Overgrown trees affecting phone line

Roadrunner384 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:21:52 GMT

Hello All.
The trees that are under the phone line going into my house have now grown that much that the branches are substantially pushing the phone line up.
I fear that if I leave it much longer it will cause damage to both the phone line and my house.
Is there a department I can contact to deal with this?
I am unable to access the trees or I would try and trim them myself, but this has got to the point now that it would have to be a professional to be honest.
Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Overgrown trees affecting phone line

Daniel0210 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:24:02 GMT

@Roadrunner384

Sky don't have a department for this type of issue. Do you know who owns the trees - council, a private address?

Re: Overgrown trees affecting phone line

jamesn123 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:30:15 GMT

@Roadrunner384

More than likely this responsibility falls under whoevers land the trees are on.

Re: Overgrown trees affecting phone line

TimmyBGood — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:39:13 GMT

@Roadrunner384

Openreach basically doesn't do preventative maintenance on individual circuits: they might do so on multi-core backbone cable.