Superfast Broadband for Benington

The Parish Council have been speaking to Connected Counties regarding the progress of the roll out of the super-fast fibre broadband network into Benington.

Connected Counties is a partnership between Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire's Local Enterprise Partnership, Buckinghamshire County Council and BT, focused upon extending fibre broadband coverage to hard-to-reach areas of the county.

The latest information they have provided is that all engineering work will be complete and the cabinet to be ready to order a service between October and December of 2017. There could well be the possibility of residents being able to order a service by mid-October if all engineering works go to plan. Each resident will then need to order their own service with either their existing or new Internet Service Provider (ISP). Any delays at that stage will then be dependent on how fast that ISP can arrange for the customers fibre internet to be connected up.

The good news is that most of Benington should benefit from a service in this period. There is one exception which is the post code SG2 7LL has not made it into the Connected Counties plans at this stage. They said, “we will be conducting a new open market review later this year and it may be that we are able to model them into our future plans then.”

So hopefully there will be the option to upgrade to superfast broadband by the New Year.

Remember this is a service you will have to upgrade to via your ISP (Internet Service Provider) so residents should speak to their ISP for more details.

Public Access Defibrillator

The village now has a defibrillator sited outside the entrance to the Village Hall, courtesy of the Parish Council and the British Heart Foundation.

A second unit will be installed outside Ernest Doe's in the near future.

These machines are designed so that any one can use them.

More information on their use can be seen on YouTube videos by clicking here

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