Re: Summon the lawyers!
Surrey County Council have passed a bylaw prohbiting running cables across the footpath - this is the same council which refused point blank to allow any on-street chargers for 12 years by simply placing all requests to consider them in the circular file (no applications in the system as none had been accepted) and giving an identical "we're thinking about it" response from 2003 to 2017
Other councils are allowing cable gulleys or cable protectors to be used