UK Fibre Builder Lightspeed Broadband Creates HQ in Spalding

Lincolnshire-based ISP Lightspeed Broadband, which is building a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the East of England as part a £300m project (here), has today announced that it will be creating its new headquarters at Fulney Hall, an 18th century Grade II listed building, in the market town of Spalding.

The operator, which only started their rollout last month with an initial team of 100 engineers, plans to cover 100,000 homes and businesses with their new full fibre network by 2022, and after that they also hold an ambition to reach 1 million UK premises by 2025.

Unsurprisingly, the town that Lightspeed has chosen for their HQ is also among one of the first ten locations to benefit from their initial rollout, including – Boston, Bourne, Holbeach, King’s Lynn and South Wootton, Long Sutton, Market Deeping, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford.

The building itself is a 2000 sq ft 18th century hall that occupies a high-profile position on Holbeach Road, close to Springfields Retail Outlet. The site, which has stood empty for a number of years but will now be restored, is to become the focus of all Lightspeed’s operations, including infrastructure build, network and customer service operations, as well as other head office departments, with 30 people being based there.

Dave Axam, COO of Lightspeed Broadband, said:

“We are very excited that we will be basing all our operations in Spalding, at Fulney Hall. It’s the ideal base for our growing team and it’s clearly an important part of South Holland’s heritage. We’re looking forward to sensitively restoring the wonderful old building in keeping with its history and getting involved with the local community.

Spalding is positioned at the very heart of our area and work has started on building our full fibre network in the town. We are moving at ‘light speed’ to bring a gigabit full fibre connection directly to local residents and businesses across South Lincolnshire and West Norfolk.”

Pictured Top – Dave Carter, Build Director at Lightspeed Broadband (Front), Simon Stone, Retailer Director at Springfields, and Sean Milligan, Build Manager (Back) celebrating the lease signing at Fulney Hall.