Following on from the damage caused by Storm Doris the fallen trees have been cut up and are ready for removal.

Counting the rings on the largest suggest it was at least 80 years old.

If you’ve been following the “Fibre Journey” progress on the BT/Openreach site you’ll have seen being stuck on “Connect” for some time.

This implies it will be done within the next four months. However it’s been like that for 4/5 months at least.

A more accurate response has been sought from Openreach. :-

In response to your query regarding Fibre availability, we’ve investigated and found that you are connected to cabinet 12 and exchange BRANDON.

We are bringing fibre into your area.  There is a SEP (superfast extension programme) project ongoing for FTTC with an estimated completion date of End of September, 2017 which is subjected to change as per the amount of work left.

There are so many departments involved to give a fibre to a customer, which takes time and all the information that we provide is the combined information from different departments which is reflecting on our network records and tools.

We hope you understand that we have a real commitment to delivering superfast broadband to more and more customers. We appreciate your patience during this time.

A number of quite large trees (behind the shop/post office) were brought down by Storm Doris (23rd Feb 2017)

Waxwings (approx 30) have been spotted near the railway line.

This has drawn a number of birdwatchers to the area – who pointed us in the right direction.

Apologies for the photo. We arrived rather late in the day when the light was going. Better luck next time

You might have noticed the BT contractors working at the entrance to the village recently.

They are installing the fibre to cabinet (The BT cabinet  is on the corner there) for superfast broadband.

Chatting to them suggests that the rest of the cabling will be completed by the end of the month!!!

It really is happening!

Work is currently being carried out on the path between Santon Downham and Brandon on the Norfolk side of the river.

The aim is to improve access. Looking at the gabions being installed it looks like they’re replacing the steps with a ramp.

The work is scheduled to take 6 months, so it looks like the whole length of the path is being done.

Just in case you wondered how much it rained yesterday morning the answer is 35mm in an hour!!!

Things are certainly moving on.

Updates as of 31st of May.

We’re installing the new fibre cabinet and laying the fibre cables to serve your home or business. You can’t order a fibre service today but typically it’ll be available to your premises within the next five months.
If you’d like to know when you can order fibre, register your details.
Find out more about the fibre journey.

Superfast broadband may not be as far away as we think.

Today I went to the BT broadband checkerand got the following results.:-