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

Project Gigabit: All in for Full Fibre

We now have some news about the Fibrus roll-out in our parish. It's good news so far in that as far as I can see from a list that Fibrus has given me, all properties in the following areas are to get full fibre under the contract:

Rusland area (including Rusland, Thwaite Head, Thwaite Moss and Dale Park)

Oxen Park area (includes Oxen Park, High Longmire, Abbot Park and Bandrake Head)

Bouth area (includes Bouth, Black Beck & Snows)

(I'm hoping to get information concerning properties in the Spark Bridge/Nibthwaite area soon).

If you want to check your property is included, email me (mike at mpo1.uk - replacing the 'at' with '@') and I'll cross check it against my list.

This is all good news in so far as we don't need to do anything to get full fibre into our homes and businesses but what we don't know at this stage is the timing of the works: Fibrus have until the end of 2026 to complete the £108m Cumbrian contract. Watch this space!