We're CH5 3DG.

I emailed Openreach and had a response today, as follows:

"Our engineering work is due to start from the beginning of April 2024 and will take several months to complete. I’m sorry we can’t give you a more specific date at this time but once the work is completed you’ll be able to place an order with your chosen service provider."

Sounds like they have put rolling out FTTP in Hawarden/Ewloe on hold for whatever reason.

That's annoying. The recent activity was all around the Upperdale area (where CH5 3HS is located).
The only yellow labels on poles that I have seen suggesting that FTTP/FTTH is present is to the school on Cross Tree Lane fed from by the Doctor's surgery (which also has fibre) plus on a newish pole by the railway bridge for the offices opposite. I would expect Hawarden High School to have a leased line. There is some fibre down Moor Lane and Chemistry Lane as well.
Looking on bidb there is some works scheduled for tonight on the Lower Aston Hall Lane A494 junction.
Strangely nothing shown for Broughton's residential roads other than some fibre works on the junction of Flint Road with Chester Road.

Cheers!

In reply to a post by davidenco:

The same thing has happened to us, on 7th March we were told they've added our building to their plans, and a week later on 15th March they said they cannot provide a FTTP service.

The thing is, we're already running on a fibre leased line (100Mbit over a 1Gbit bearer) that was installed last year by Openreach. When the engineers were installing the service, it took longer than expected because they said our connection went from our building to the local exchange (Hawarden), then to the Connahs Quay exchange, then back to the Hawarden exchange.

Why? They told me that's just how it's been designed by the department in charge of infrastructure.

Down the road from us, the council building has a fibre terminal box (similar to the ones at top of the poles) attached to the building outside, with a single fibre coming from the manhole and another from the terminal to an Openreach CSP around the back.

Further down the road, half of Hawarden/Ewloe has the fibre terminals on the poles with a reel of fibre cable left dangling half-way down each pole. I'm guessing they are awaiting connection, or could those poles be subject to the same restrictions that we face?

Unfortunately the presence of a pre-existing fibre connection for a EAD service (leased line) won't speed or for that matter slow down the delivery of native FTTP to your area or premises.

Openreach will design and construct the new FTTP network completely independently of what is there already for legacy EAD services.

Ironically however if you have new FTTP infrastructure in place - then as @candlerb has noted - it is possible for Openreach now deliver new EAD services using part of that 'converged' fibre infrastructure, rather than building a separate parallel network. So having pre-existing FTTP infrastructure *can* speed up the delivery and make it easier/cheaper to deliver EAD services in certain circumstances.

Unfortunately this is wrong way around for the service that you want now - FTTP.

Good luck.

The planned works in her village are still scheduled for April 18. Will update when I hear/see more then.

Openreach sighted working. So the planned work's still going ahead...good news.

Just got the exact same email. Not sure what exactly that means for me, the poles here have had CBTs on them for months now.

My street had fibre pulled through the chambers this time last year. All the properties on my street have blue pull ropes in the conduits. It seems like they did 90% of the work and then pulled the plug.

In reply to a post by shane605:

It seems like they did 90% of the work and then pulled the plug.

It has been seen many times before.

But equally, some of those E-mails have been sent out in error. You'll just have to wait and see; you won't know until it's finally available to order.

I've just had the same, Openreach have done half the town and Lit Fibre are connecting me on Monday. I am fairly sure these messages are being sent out in error or as the rollout projects change around.

Same e-mail here in SK10 5--

OR site shows local exchange as in current build but detailed check now changed from 2026 to not planned.

Almost get the impression that they have decided to close my local exchange and supply FTTP from Macclesfield where FTTP rollout is still occurring.

Some work has been done on poles, new poles installed and chambers cleared but not much recent activity.

Had the same email today. Completely out of the blue as we've had the Openreach engineers working our street for the last 2 weeks including attaching a new cable to the pole outside my house.

They actually accidentally cut through a cable in error and I lost my broadband last week, when the engineer came round on Saturday he said it wouldn't be long before I could order the full fibre.

I'm really hoping the email was sent in error