ntruby
Casual Member
Our CFP covering about 45 addresses received an estimate for FTTP of about £73k, so £1,600 per address, from Openreach in March 2021. We could have lived with that.
Openreach has now completed its survey (taking 8 months, not 8 weeks, to do so, and missing endless unambitious, self-imposed target dates along the way!) and issued a formal quotation. It's come out at about £183k for 77 homes, so a huge increase (£2,500 per address, and to add to the difficulty, 12 of the 77 addresses will not now be eligible for Broadband Vouchers anyway, as they are having FTTP implemented under a new regional government scheme, by Airband).
We can't see any way to turn. The Openreach lady sees no prospect of the quote being materially less even with the 12 addresses being removed, and simply washed her hands of of us and suggested that we ask Airband.
Is there any appeal against Openreach's quotation, or any other way forward likely to be affected? Our local councillors seem powerless, and our local MP couldn't care less.
Thanks
N
Openreach has now completed its survey (taking 8 months, not 8 weeks, to do so, and missing endless unambitious, self-imposed target dates along the way!) and issued a formal quotation. It's come out at about £183k for 77 homes, so a huge increase (£2,500 per address, and to add to the difficulty, 12 of the 77 addresses will not now be eligible for Broadband Vouchers anyway, as they are having FTTP implemented under a new regional government scheme, by Airband).
We can't see any way to turn. The Openreach lady sees no prospect of the quote being materially less even with the 12 addresses being removed, and simply washed her hands of of us and suggested that we ask Airband.
Is there any appeal against Openreach's quotation, or any other way forward likely to be affected? Our local councillors seem powerless, and our local MP couldn't care less.
Thanks
N