Just had a reply from Herefordshire Council - seems bt might be telling fibs!

Dear Chris,

The installation of these cabinets (unless they are within a Conservation Area) do not require planning permission and this explains why you cannot find anything on the website. There have been a number of recent prior approval applications for locations within the various Conservation Areas around the city, but this does not apply in Kempton Avenue.

I hope this clarifies matters.

Yours sincerely

Simon Withers
Development Manager - Hereford and Southern Localities
Development Management

BT need to get permission from Highways/streetworks, Not Planning.

Well its not actually permission, they just give notice of their intention to carry out streetworks and the council may or may not object. They don't really have any grounds to object, BT have code powers.

For anyone whose cab has gone live and also registered for notifications from BT through the infinity website - were you emailed to say the can went live or did you just keep checking your phone number on the infinity site?

I didn't receive any email on both accounts that i registered with, just kept checking the "can i get infinity" with my phone number until the "register interest" button turned into "order now" or something along those lines.

So now reply to the BT email addressed adivising them that the local planning authority have not recieved a planning application and not objected to any cabinet location proposal, and could they check the reason, and advise them you'd like to help in any way you can.

Then post up their next reply.

We can get to the bottom of it

Lorian.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Just had a reply from Herefordshire Council - seems bt might be telling fibs!

Dear Chris,

The installation of these cabinets (unless they are within a Conservation Area) do not require planning permission and this explains why you cannot find anything on the website. There have been a number of recent prior approval applications for locations within the various Conservation Areas around the city, but this does not apply in Kempton Avenue.

I hope this clarifies matters.

Yours sincerely

Simon Withers
Development Manager - Hereford and Southern Localities
Development Management

WooHoo!

Finally got my order placed, Install date 21st September!

Well done buddy, did u stick with sky in the end or go with someone else ?

I stayed with Sky - I was in the process of looking round when I got the final call from Sky saying they could order with no activation fee, so I went with it.

Less upheaval that way!

Just had another update from bto re PCP 71:

"Cabinets are regarded as street furniture and unless in a conservation, place of scientific or historical interest etc. do not need formal planning permission.
However, we use a process called noticing, (which is a form of planning permission), which notifies our intention to erect street furniture.
This goes to the council for approval, by themselves and the highways department.
It is this that has been refused, possibly for safety reasons, but I don�t have access to this information as it is done on Openreach�s behalf by our contractors.
What may seem like an obvious choice on the surface to position a cab can be rejected as it doesn�t leave enough room for pedestrians to pass, could cause �line of sight� problems to users of the highway or pavement, our vehicles when servicing the cabinet would cause an obstruction, problems with hidden unrecorded underground structures to name a few.
As stated, we are waiting on our contractors to provide feedback from the council�s decision."

So it seems it's the contractors slowing things down.