I just quickly looked at street view of the road and one side seem to have houses and the other side MDU's so that's probably the reason.

Just what I had done but you beat me to the post.

Odd numbers are single dwellings, even are MDUs

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Just what I had done but you beat me to the post.

Sorry kitcat, my bad

Turns out yes, He lives in a flat, and that's what's on his side of the road... the side that's not got FTTP.

Kinda sucks, for him. But he is planning on moving next year... Maybe he will move somewhere that has Virgin or CF xD

I wonder what it is that stopped the install on that side

MDUs are a pain to install, because they need the landlord's permission. I would guess that the landlord outright refused permission to install, or (almost as bad) simply did not respond to requests from Openreach.

There are potential legal avenues that Openreach can pursue, but they probably don't want to waste time fighting when they can move onto more productive projects.

I think it's pretty obvious, the fact that all the odd numbered houses are single dwellings and the evens are flats which are a problem for FTTP installation so they can't have it.

Same happened here on our new build estate, there is a whole area of MDU's much like this one and they have all been skipped.

Worse still there are a few houses and coach houses mixed in with them and they also got skipped!

I spoke to one of the guys overseeing the build and he mentioned that the freeholds are all held by overseas companies who were impossible to contact at the planning stage.

Will be interesting to see how effective the new legislation that was passed a few months affects this in a practical sense. I believe various stakeholders are now trying to agree the ‘ground rules’ of engagement that that act requires.

I'll be interested to see what happens when copper switchoff eventually comes along, and service providers tell their customers that they can no longer have phone or broadband because their landlord didn't permit the replacement service to be installed.

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I'll be interested to see what happens when copper switchoff eventually comes along, and service providers tell their customers that they can no longer have phone or broadband because their landlord didn't permit the replacement service to be installed.

Plenty of companies drill through walls with only occupier permission. I've seen both Sky and Virgin do this, so the threshold will be variable.

The problem landlords appear to be those that are faceless corporations with headquarters overseas, or the "social landlord" / Housing Association which is so overworked it does not have the team to asses.

Renters & Leaseholders will be campaigning on their MPs to fix this mess. I had hoped this recent legislation would solve.