Fibre policy
Public Group active 9 months, 3 weeks ago agoPlanning policy and fibre deployment. Can planning policy be used to advance the deployment of fibre in rural areas? The planning system is used to provide a variety of social goods such as transport infrastructure, affordable housing, schools, parks, play areas. Is fibre a suitable subject for planning policy, especially in rural areas? And if so what does it look like?
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Fibre policy: 9 months, 3 weeks agoIs there a way to require developers of more than 5 homes (say) to consider broadband availability in their planning submission. The current approach could be described as “build and run away” leaving the residents to source whatever services they might be able to access, which may be none at all.
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Fibre policy: 9 months, 3 weeks agoI can well imagine that in Holland they have such a policy as Guy suggests. Not only have they a sensible approach to town planning, but they also have built many new towns from scratch. I would agree that common utility ducting is a sensible approach in new developments. This is something to pass on to our political representatives, as I…[Read more]
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Guy Jarvis posted an update in the group
Fibre policy: 9 months, 3 weeks agoExcellent post Tom.
If you look at policy in Holland post WW2, a key enabler of early FTTH deployment in the last decade was the mandating of common utility ducting and that approach has real merit in the UK too.
When I first delved into this subject a couple of years in the UK context, an interesting statistic popped up:
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Fibre policy: 9 months, 4 weeks agoSome of you may know I am preparing new planning policy for the Upper Eden Area as part of a Neighbourhood Plan. I would like to explore the potential for using planning policy as a tool to help in the deployment of fibre in rural areas such as Upper Eden. Below is some text to set the scene and start a debate. Your views are warmly welcomed on…[Read more]
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Fibre policy 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Sounds like a good idea. Communications are becomming as important as power and water in the modern world. You wouldn’t buy a house that had gas or electricity that only ran at half power or a water supply that keeps going off.