Part R gigabit connection

[PSC88]

Hi all, I am commencing a bungalow demo and house rebuild on the same footprint.

 

currently have fibre to the premises fast broadband to the bungalow.

openreach have come out to temp move my fibre cable and box from the bungalow to the site office.

 

once build complete they will re route back to the house.

 

currently overhead cable. 
 

for building regs is it suitable for me to explain the above?

 

or do I have to go and pay the £2k fee to openreaxh as this is what they quoted me when I registered the site as a new site on there portal

 

makes little sense to me to be paying £2k to get service to a sight already served by fast fibre 

[JohnMo]

To me if have fibre, you have fibre connection. It not a new site, it's just a new house, on an old site

[Mr Blobby]

We are in the same position, with the fibre available from a pole across the road for free.  To a site that we demolished and rebuilt.

 

But I didn't want the fibre coming from a pole the other side of the road.  There is a pole on our side of the road (connected to the pole on the opposite side of the road) about 50 yards away that feeds our neighbours houses.  I registered on the open reach site and paid the (approx) 300 quid fee as a new site.  Engineer came out and offered to lay a trench from the pole on our side of the road along the grass in the visibility splay and across the neighbours drive and up to our boundary for (approx) 400 quid.  For me this was a really good and not outrageously expensive solution to get the cable in through a conduit instead of overhead.

 

Open-reach will often fit a pole on your side of the road for free but I preferred the trench dug across the neighbours drive option.  We don't speak to that neighbour who is insanely precious about his house and boundary.  Open reach haven't dug the trench across his drive yet so this is an added bonus to look forward to.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Mr Blobby

[PSC88]

How do I put this forward to building control that we already have fibre broadband at the site?

[jack]

I'd just tell them it's already there because it's an existing dwelling and ask whether they need more info. 

If it's listed on one of the broadband checker sites, you could include a screenshot of what's available at your address.

[Bancroft]

16 minutes ago, PSC88 said:

How do I put this forward to building control that we already have fibre broadband at the site?

Not sure if its the dame for BC but for planning we just showed them a bill for the existing suppy.

 

The Openreach online system is not fit for purpose for private builders.  We had a really frustrating time trying to get an additional supply to a site that already has fibre.

 

From my experience, you'll get no sense out of Openreach's India offices until you agree to pay whatever random figure they come up with (that random figure for us was £12k - with no details as to what the work entailed!)  

 

Once you have agreed to pay the random figure, you have 30 days to do so or they just invalidate the contract.

 

However, once you've agreed to that then you will be allocated a local Supply Engineer who can visit the site and talk sense.  They can then work within the system to actually achieve a solution.

 

A completely stupid, back to front situation but that's Openreach for you.