{"id":16433,"date":"2018-06-29T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16433"},"modified":"2018-06-29T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T07:24:13","slug":"aylesbury-vale-broadband-fallout-claims-scalps-of-senior-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/aylesbury-vale-broadband-fallout-claims-scalps-of-senior-councillors.html","title":{"rendered":"Aylesbury Vale Broadband Fallout Claims Scalps of Senior Councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled Aylesbury Vale Broadband project in Buckinghamshire, which was supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk\/avdc-and-its-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aylesbury Vale District Council<\/a> via a \u00a31.44m publicly funded commercial loan before being sold to UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, last night contributed to the resignation of AVDC&#8217;s Leader, Neil Blake, as well as his wife (Cllr Janet Blake).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The AVB scheme, which was controlled by AVDC\u00a0(95% shareholder and most of its directors also worked for the council), originally set out to deploy a &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H) ultrafast broadband network to cover several rural villages in the heavily rural <strong>Aylesbury Vale<\/strong> area. But good intentions don&#8217;t always make for the best approach.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the project ran into difficulties (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/uncertainty-looms-ftth-aylesbury-vale-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>) with the potential overbuild of rival networks (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> was targeting some of the same areas, while a couple of fixed wireless ISPs were already present in certain parts) and other concerns also emerged over performance, deployment delays, long-term financial viability, the departure of a key Managing Director (<strong>Andrew Mills<\/strong>) and the status of subscriber deposits.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2017 a deal was finally reached that resulted in the sale of AVB&#8217;s network assets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/aylesbury-vale-council-hands-ftth-broadband-network-uk-isp-gigaclear.html\">here<\/a>), which in turn pledged to support and continue the local rollout. Despite all this the council&#8217;s leadership continued to hail AVB as a &#8220;<em>success,<\/em>&#8221; which was put into sharp context after the Audit Committee published its report earlier this month and laid bare many of the project&#8217;s mistakes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/audit-report-exposes-troubled-aylesbury-vale-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The council has since accepted the Audit Committee&#8217;s report and the matter was due to be discussed again at 7pm last night during an extraordinary meeting of the council (<a href=\"http:\/\/democracy.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk\/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=135&amp;MId=2622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). Ahead of that event Cllr <strong>Janet Blake<\/strong>, who has also been under pressure after she voted on a planning application for a developer where she had a financial interest, took the decision to resign from her cabinet post.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that it was announced that her husband and AVDC&#8217;s Leader, <strong>Neil Blake<\/strong>, had similarly resigned from his position (seemingly related to AVB).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>AVDC Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Councillor Neil Blake has today resigned as Leader of Aylesbury Vale District Council.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the council&#8217;s Constitution the Deputy Chairman, Councillor Angela Macpherson, will discharge the functions of the Leader until such time as a new Leader is elected by Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile Gigaclear have already committed to &#8220;<em>completing the network builds<\/em>&#8221; by end of September (<strong>Q3 2018<\/strong>) in Stewkley, Oving, Drayton Parslow and Swanbourne (this should cover the &#8220;<em>majority of residents<\/em>&#8221; in these areas), although taking on another network&#8217;s assets can be complicated and we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if that slipped a bit. Apparently they will then start evaluating other areas in the vale for a future deployment.<\/p>\n<p>However a big question mark still remains over the council&#8217;s future liabilities after their sale to Gigaclear. In cash terms, the Council has already been found to have made a <strong>net loss of \u00a3185,495<\/strong> on its investment in AVB but this could still rise by the end of 2018 if Gigaclear finds that all was not quite as promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled Aylesbury Vale Broadband project in Buckinghamshire, which was supported by Aylesbury Vale District Council via a \u00a31.44m publicly funded commercial loan before being sold to UK ISP Gigaclear, last night contributed to the resignation of AVDC&#8217;s Leader, Neil Blake, as well as his wife (Cllr Janet Blake).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[453,65,56,416,38],"class_list":["post-16433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-buckinghamshire","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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