Because that close cabinet does not serve properties in a nice circle around it, and I can see postcodes connected to cabinet 8 which is not live, but there are hints of going live by March 2017. The postcode S10 4LD is at around 1km from cabinet 8 and in the zone where other project that are aiming for high superfast coverage levels have added an infill cabinet.

Might be wrong, and not the long language I use has caveats, but have seen this scenario take place elsewhere.

I actually live in the postcode S104LD, so I'm well aware that the cabinet serves properties a large distance away. I just meant, the location you suggested (outside the golf club) is almost next to the actual cabinet in question.

Unfortunately, there appears to be no BDUK scheme for the long distance lines - their solution was to actually transfer some nearby EO lines to cabinet 8, despite having an estimated speed of <10mbps. Bit odd as there's over 250 properties (last time I counted) which won't ever receive more than 25Mbps, most of which won't get over 15.

Good news! A new roadworks listing pretty much confirms that it's related to the installation of fibre to our cabinet, although it doesn't have a useful description. Looks like they may already have installed ducting down the footpath labeled as "Tom Ln".

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Mon 06-Feb-17 11:55:31)

Fingers crossed. I'll keep my eyes open for anybody to ask.

The other red-coloured listing at the top of the footpath has been removed - hopefully not because the works application was denied.

Did you notice any work on the area being done the past week? I noticed that roadworks.org listed a couple Openreach work applications multiple times, which then just disappeared during the dates they were specified to take place - unfortunately, there's no way to see if they went through or were cancelled/denied.

If they didn't manage to do anything, I would imagine that we're going to be left behind for another 6-12 months before they re-attempt the same work, as they usually have the past few years.

Afraid not - pretty certain nothing was done.

Still one roadworks notification pending. The description keeps changing - not sure what to make of that, but not given up hope yet...

Seems like they've added it earlier this morning. I see some notice of a section 58 in the description, which could be why the previous works did not go through.

Let's hope they proceed with this one.

if there is a section 58 on the road they wont be doing anything anytime soon