advice getting fttp cable moved slightly
Had FTTP installed a few years ago, all fine, Openreach dug a trench up the drive, then a small grey box on side of garage, from there a few metres of cable to near front door, then through the wall to ONT. All fine.
We are now demolishing the garage to make more parking space (long story) but the cable goes along part of the garage wall. So we need to move the fibreoptic cable if we want to demolish that wall.
As its outside the house its in openreach's domain, not the ISP. So went through the Openreach "change our existing network" process - sent them a few diagrams etc. They warn it will cost a bit of money if they need to do a survey ... fine, I think, imagining a few hundred quid.
They want £2000 just to come and do a survey - this is just to reroute a few metres of fibreoptic near my front door. If I go ahead with the survey, goodness knows what the quote for the actual work will be.
This seems insane. If they are trying to get fibreoptic cable to every household in the uk over the next few years, lots of people are in for a nasty shock when they try and move a cable for whatever reason.
Is there some simpler way I can get this done?