Superfast Broadband for Wellpond Green and Westland Green in Hertfordshire

Oliver Heald Excerpts

Wednesday 18th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (Con)]

This is a petition of residents of Wellpond Green and Westland Green in my constituency, and it contains the signatures of Dr Amanda Halliday and a total of 155 residents of those two villages. In fact, all the residents have signed, and they are aggrieved that undertakings to give superfast broadband access by March of this year were not kept, that they had given up the chance of going with another supplier on the basis of those undertakings, and that now they have been told they have to wait until 2019.

The petition states:

The petition of residents of Wellpond Green and Westland Green in Hertfordshire,

Declares that the villages were added to the Connected Counties/BT Openreach programme for superfast broadband for implementation by March 2017; further that many residents discontinued negotiations with an alternative supplier offering the same timetable; and further that Connected Counties then re-modelled the programme so that residents would not be connected until 2019 causing great inconvenience.

The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons to urge the Government and BDUK to facilitate immediate connection of superfast broadband.

And the petitioners remain, etc.

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