Broadband Poles Complaint (Case Study TNPLG-24-3)

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• Questions to raise with WCC: what 
• Questions to raise with WCC: what is the total delivery programme and budgets, what is budget v projects costing reported in the presentation, what is allocated and what is available, how will TDCT be involved as a stakeholder or fundholder, what has been scoped to date (incl any rock action plan footpath access?), what is the scoping process for new 

Following a planning application by Openreach for the installation of a 9m wooden pole in Lower Green, Tettenhall Community Forum has issued an objection to the proposed telegraph pole on Lower Green. We have written to Openreach to insist on consultation with the Community Forum and Trust, under the Tettenhall Neighbourhood Plan policies.  

This follows an article in The Times (16th March) which highlights the increasingly national opposition to the installation of obstructive telegraph poles that have been erected without appropriate consultation with the Local Communities. 

There is a private members bill being proposed by Diana Johnson (Labour MP for Kingston), which was superseded by the letter sent by Julia Lopez, the current Minister for Data & Digital Infrastructure, warning broadband providers on this issue, Thursday 14th March. 

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