At Wednesday’s Council meeting I raised the issue of when local small businesses and domestic customers might get access to the much-trumpeted gigabit capable Full Fibre digital network. The District Council has successfully obtained millions in funding from the Government to install the infrastructure to provide full fibre broadband, and for Burgess Hill this was completed last May, but it seems the commercial roll out which originally promised for last summer has been delayed. High speed broadband will bring significant benefits for local businesses as well as consumers and I have asked the Council to confirm when the service will be available.
Back in 2019 when Virgin were installing fibreoptic cabling all over Burgess Hill, our road missed out due to our road having been resurfaced fairly recently at the time and had a New Road Order on it which prevented any digging up of the road surface for 2 years. Fibreoptic cabling was supplied to properties either end of our road but not completed in Birchwood Grove Road, Burgess Hill, RH15 0DN. So we were stuck with the limitations of overhead copper cabling to properties in our road. Having chased Virgin recently, there appear to be no plans to complete the task, no budget & no work in the area. Can you help?