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West Sussex UK Opens Broadband Voucher Scheme for Businesses

Tuesday, Oct 18th, 2016 (10:38 am) - Score 350

Small and medium sized businesses in West Sussex (England) are being invited to apply for a new voucher scheme, which offers a subsidy of between £1,000 and £3,000 to help local firms get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connection installed.

The approach mirrors the central UK Government’s earlier Connection Voucher scheme, which succeeded in helping around 55,000 SMEs to access a superfast broadband service (here) and then came to an end in October 2015 after the funding dried up (here).

Under the new scheme, which aims to run until 1st February 2017 (sooner if the funding dries up), eligible businesses in West Sussex will be able to apply for a voucher to provide capital funding of between £1,000 and £3,000 or up to 40% of the overall project cost, whichever is lower.

However one caveat is that any works undertaken must be completed and paid for before 31st March 2017 to qualify for the grant, which could be a problem if more complicated work is required (longer delays for survey and civil engineering work are sometimes a possibility).

Louise Goldsmith, West Sussex County Council Leader, said:

“This funding is a fantastic opportunity for local businesses to access the latest digital technologies through superfast broadband. I would encourage businesses to find out more and make the most of this scheme.”

It’s unclear precisely how much funding has been allocated to the final scheme (a provisional figure of £225,000 was mooted last year for the pilot), although it’s probably not a huge amount given the fairly short time-scale involved. The funding for the scheme itself is coming from the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership / Local Growth Deal (details here).

The LEP has recently been meeting with local businesses to discuss the final proposal, which is now live. Today’s news follows last week’s announcement by the West Sussex County Council (here), which proposed a new “Gigabit West Sussex” framework that could help to “bring ultrafast [FTTP/H broadband] to as many parts of the County as possible,” starting with a contract to deploy a new Dark Fibre network in Adur & Worthing.

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