quite so, but the project (regardless I believe of FTTP or FTTC solution) was able to access some cash from BT Group to help fund

I sense much red tape in your future, good luck with it all, fingers crossed

I think that'll be our next step, hopefully Fell end will be able to help us through the process, like i said surely if it cost them £88,000 to cover 15KM it shouldn't cost us more than £30,000 to cover 3KM. They got http://www.tstrenching.co.uk/ to deploy the whole of the ducting, they wen't under main roads and along roadsides.

Have you got a link for this? Thanks

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Have you got a link for this? Thanks

Maybe this:
http://www.communityfibre.bt.com/schools

Well i'm not clost to a school so i doubt i could get any funding from that. Does anyone know what size and type of the ducting that bt/openreach use and how far apart the chambers usually are?

Has anyone on this forum had any experience going ahead with a community fibre partnership with bt/openreach. Any help would be great.

You might find these handy. They are guides aimed at housing developers...
https://www.ournetwork.openreach.co.uk/property-deve...

They show parts and installation guidelines, but not planning guidelines. I think that a developer sends their site plans to Openreach; then Openreach planners add the plans for ducts and chambers. Then the developer installs everything in footways and roads ... pretty early on in the development.

Thanks.
Our village has 3 options really,

Pay openreach to do the work.
Get a contractor in to do it.
Or do it ourselves.

We have to pay £2,500 for a survey and openreach will send a surveyor out and plan the route and the exact price for openreach to do all the work.
I'm guessing once we have the exact price we should be able to try and get grants, if we can't get enough we'll have to ask a contractor and get him to give us a price for him to carry out all the work which should be a lot less than openreach will charge. The only problem is that i'm not sure if i could carry out the work myself if the route openreach choose is a long roadsides.

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Thanks.
Our village has 3 options really,

Pay openreach to do the work.
Get a contractor in to do it.
Or do it ourselves.

We have to pay £2,500 for a survey and openreach will send a surveyor out and plan the route and the exact price for openreach to do all the work.
I'm guessing once we have the exact price we should be able to try and get grants, if we can't get enough we'll have to ask a contractor and get him to give us a price for him to carry out all the work which should be a lot less than openreach will charge. The only problem is that i'm not sure if i could carry out the work myself if the route openreach choose is a long roadsides.

It's not even that simple.

You pay your £2,500, then they quote you £X. You can't just say "I'll do it myself" as they won't let you connect your random fibre to their network. Paying a contractor presents similar issues and is unlikely to save much - that's what BT themselves will do anyway.

If you can't pay BT to do it, there is little you can do...

I know it isn't that simple, but it's possible to get a contractor to do the work, i've been talking with one that has carried out work on BT community fttp projects. BT would supply the plans and all materials.