Thank you for digging up that post.

Residents chose to go with BT at our AGM in November 2014 and after further negotiation with BT I signed the contract on behalf of the residents in late March 2015. Our AIO cab was stood in December 2015 after Lambeth had objected to its original location. Lambeth then caused a further delay by serving a section 58 notice and the actual network rearrangement and installation of the fibre didn't occur until Jul-Aug 2016. We finally went live in September 2016. Final cost was a little under £250 per property inc. VAT.

long process and it can be tricky but there are people who can help !!!! re community numbers you don't need many people but you need enough of the right kind of people (people who are tenacious & pragmatic and want to help the community to get to better place (whatever that community is -- it might be 3 - 4 people in a cul de sac to 350 in an estate or any point in between