Alfreda Clark said she only found out Chorus had installed the pole on the driveway of her Roslyn rental property when she carried out an inspection in June.
The pole made her already narrow driveway even more difficult for large vehicles to navigate and was much larger than the iron pole it replaced, Mrs Clark said.
Since June, she had been fighting to have Chorus remove the pole, but her complaint had been handed from person to person without any progress being made.
"I just want the pole removed. It wasn’t necessary."
She felt it was "bizarre" Chorus had done the work without telling her.
A spokesman for Chorus said the existing pole on the property was deemed unsafe to be climbed, so the pole was removed and a new one installed.
"So it was just replacing like with like.
"However, out of courtesy we should have told Alfreda that this work was taking place."
