Road works on the Green

Sat 7 Feb, 21:11

I'm sure that they are offering wayleave agreements, with attendant financial compensation.  I got some money from BT a few years ago after noticing an overhead cable passing over my garden.

You have to ask.  For some reason, they don't usually offer it voluntarily. 😉

Sat 7 Feb, 20:12

I spoke to the Open Reach people a few days ago. They are installing full fibre for those on BT broadband. 

In my part of Ditchley Rd the fibre will be running under the street to a telegraph pole and then carried by overhead wire to the individual houses, in place of the copper wiring that is already there. 

I think this may be different in other parts of the town, and perhaps also in other parts of the street. I know they offered one of my neighbours the option to run a wire to a (different) telegraph pole, but said that other solutions would be available when she said she wasn't very keen on the overhead wiring option which they had proposed.

Open Reach have now properly attached the new overhead connector box to my nearest telegraph pole. They have also measured out and marked up the street for the underground fibre, but I don't think the underground work has been started yet. 

Sat 7 Feb, 18:58

I think so. It was Thames Water in the week and now Open Reach.

Sat 7 Feb, 18:23

Can anybody please tell me why the road is being dug up around the Green? I saw an Open Reach van which may have just been a coincidence. Are they installing an alternative to Gigaclear fibre perhaps?