Colton Superfast Broadband Why it's important and how we can get it......Mike Postle (mike@mpo1.uk)

Thank you to businesses which responded.

A big ‘thank you’ to those of you who run businesses and supplied details of them to me. There were 24 of you – many of which I never knew existed! It gives an insight into the extent of economic activity in the Parish and underlines the importance to the local economy of getting a reliable superfast broadband connection.

The feedback I got was that the information was useful and is allowing Connecting Cumbria to draw down ERDF funding for the project as a whole. In a recent radio interview with Martin Rayner (Lakeland Ltd) and a BT Openreach representative, it was stated that one eligible SME in a cabinet area gives priority for connection of that cabinet. If so, our parish should be well served.