Oh no absolutely, I wasn't offering my advice, I was trying to ascertain which way they may go. They've already done the planning stage.

The alternative route is actually closer to the aggregation node, was the route our failed CFP was going to go and is the route they took for FTTP to the next group of closest houses. The closer houses though are two stuck on the end that are the same exchange but different cabinet.

Now this is a BDUK project I was just curious if they would run it that way or there was some reason they had to continue to follow the old copper for potential future network expansion etc?

They don't necessarily follow the copper, because they are completely independent networks.

My FTTPoD takes a different path, for most of the route anyway - an engineer showed me a map. It takes the direct route from the fibre aggregation node, as opposed to the direct route from the exchange, which is in a different direction. The FTTP is also list from a different (larger) exchange.