Gillian recently met with Lee Harris and Jo Furber from West Sussex County Council to discuss the rollout of super-fast gigabit broadband, across the Chichester District. In the meeting, GIllian agreed to take their request for greater funding to the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS),
More information on WSCC schemes below
WSCC explained some of the schemes currently underway.
Rural gigabit broadband voucher scheme
If you live in rural West Sussex and want better broadband, you could qualify for the national UK Gigabit Broadband Voucher scheme. The scheme aims to bring faster broadband services to rural areas of the country by providing funding towards installation costs.
West Sussex Gigabit
The West Sussex Gigabit project is about improving the infrastructure that will allow our public services to be delivered more effectively for all local residents and tax payers.
Together with CityFibre, West Sussex councils are building a full fibre network that will connect key public sector sites, capable of delivering speeds from 1,000 megabits per second (1 gigabit) to meet the future need of public services.
The project will not deliver fibre broadband to homes and businesses, but we are committed to providing full fibre within the county by working with the market to benefit homes and businesses in the future.
Other projects are currently under way within the County Council that will extend the reach of fibre broadband to more premises across the county.
Gigabit project roadworks
Construction methods are selected based on multiple criteria, such as highways legislation and standards, public accessibility and the presence of other utilities. We are working closely with the Network Permit Office and contractors to keep any roadwork disruption in West Sussex to a minimum.
We will make every effort to combine our roadworks with other ongoing work. However, the timing and designs of the project mean the potential to work at the same time in a given location with other utilities may be limited.
Some roads may need to be closed, some will have traffic management alternatives, allowing the roads to remain open, and in some cases work will be carried out in the footpath, with pedestrian diversions.
On completion of any work, all reinstatement materials are checked and a comprehensive material testing process is used to verify that reinstatements are completed to the Specification of the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways (SROH) standards.
Further details about the permits granted for the Gigabit West Sussex Project can be found on our streetworks register map, where you can filter by date range and entering a road name in the location field.
