Come and join us at our village HUB NIGHT! West Wickham’s community pub offering a well stocked charity bar. Locally brewed beer and locally made bar snacks. You are also welcome to bring your own drinks and make a donation. West Wickham Hub Nights will happen the fourth Saturday of every month. Free Admission 7-11pm
West Wickham HUB Night
Come and join us for our 2nd village HUB NIGHT ! Saturday 22nd April 7pm-11pm West Wickham Village Hall West Wickhams community event offering a well stocked charity bar. Woodfordes Wherry on tap. Special surprise Guest Ale! Locally made bar snacks. You are also welcome to bring your own drinks and make a donation. A great opportunity to catch up…
Housing Need Survey Results Report available.
Following a presentation to the Parish Council on the of 27th March 2017, the revised Housing Needs Survey Results Report has been received by the working group. For the edited conclusions, recommendations and full report, follow the link below. https://westwickham.org/directory/parish-council/neighbourhood-plan/housing-need-survey-results/
Cabinet 5 (Burton End) open for Superfast Broadband
The West Wratting 5 cabinet is now open for superfast broadband orders (FTTC). Residents connected to this cabinet should now be able to upgrade with their chosen Internet Service Provider (ISP). To check if you are really connected, please go to https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/when-can-i-get-fibre.aspx and enter your telephone number – no space. If the page does not show your number as “Superfast Accepting…
House Needs Survey report presentation to Parish Council
The Housing Needs Survey report has been completed by Cambridgeshire ACRE and following scrutiny by South Cambs District Council and Hastoe Housing. It has been circulated to the Parish Council. Mark Deas and Ulrike Maccariello will attend to present the findings to the Parish Council at the meeting at 7.30pm, 27th March at the Village Hall. All are welcome to attend.…
HUB NIGHT – Community Night, 25th March
Please come and join us for our first village Hub Night at the Village Hall. 25th March 7pm-11pm We will have a well stocked Charity Bar with locally brewed beer and locally made bar snacks. You are also welcome to bring your own drinks and make a donation. Bring a friend and come and meet other people in the village.…
Superfast Broadband Update, 18th March
Cabinet 5 BT-OpenReach still have not commissioned nor opened cabinet 5 at Burton End for Superfast broadband orders and have been unresponsive to repeated requests for updated information by both Connecting Cambridgeshire and our MP’s office. After repeated delays, it was due to be opened “early March” for Superfast orders and is still due to be open imminently. FTTP / Cabinet 1…
Residents who have ordered FTTP Superfast Upgrades are having their ISPs cancel installations or activations.
These all appear to be from the cabinet designated West Wratting 1 and frankly has become another nightmare. ISPs and contract engineers on site are reporting missing fibre segments and outstanding engineering work and residents are reporting missed activation dates or cancelled installations – same as we had with the West Wratting 7 cabinet. Some numbers listed as having FTTP…
Superfast Upgrades – Cabinet 7 issues reported as resolved
As many residents will appreciate, we had issues when Cabinet 7 went live in January. This was due to a BT-OpenReach half-job which they thought they could get away with by assuming less than 40% take up of SuperFast broadband in West Wickham. According to BT-OpenReach, these issues have now all been resolved, so those waiting for the dust to…
Common Road cabinet accepting FTTP orders
The DSL checker, https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/, is showing up some numbers in Burton End as available for FTTP orders from West Wratting Cabinet 1 (on the Common Road). If you would prefer FTTP (if given a choice) and you see a small green box mounted on a telephone pole opposite, confirm with the DSL checker that you are live and place your…