CNY’s Chairman and Local Councillor, Carl Les, explained:

"We are delighted to have the opportunity to deliver our eleventh high speed broadband project. We are committed to developing community based schemes in areas where high speed broadband is not commercially viable in the open market – the so called ‘broadband not spots’.

We are working with our partner Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), a Government organisation tasked with ensuring that 90% of the UK can receive high quality broadband access by 2015 and 100% by 2017.

The core of the scheme through Threshfield, Conistone, Kilnsey, Kettlewell, Starbotton, Buckden, Cray, Hubberholme, Yockenthwaite, Beckermonds and Oughtershaw is confirmed to go ahead. However, we still need more people to sign up in the Littondale communities including Hawkswick, Arncliffe, Litton, Halton Gill and Foxup."