mains electric

[jacks202020]

After moving some plants from my front garden i've found my mains electric cable. My problem is that its about 4 inches under the surface.
I need to take out a couple of trees and this cable is in the way. Is it down to the electric board to have this moved to a safer depth or will it be at my expense.
Any ideas????

 

[plugwash]

its clearly burried at an unsafe depth but im not sure what the rules are on existing cables

 

[securespark]

When laying a new gas main outside our house, the contractor dug up the mains, water & BT: interesting because all our services were off at once!!

When the REC came to fix it, they laid concentric cable just below the kerbstone..........

Another BANG! waiting to happen...