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…
Neighbourhood Plan February Update & Meeting Minutes
Since the Village Hall Drop-in Session on 14th January, the Neighbourhood Plan Working Group have been focused on completing the Housing Needs Survey. Volunteers have visited every household in the Parish to deliver and attempt to collect surveys, which will be sent to ACRE for analysis. So far 67% of households have responded. The anonymised results will be made available as…
Superfast Upgrade – some issues resolved, new still occuring
Some issues encountered with Superfast upgrade orders involving cabinet 7 have been resolved over the last two weeks, although there are still issues unresolved and new ones being reported. It appears BT-OpenReach and their contractors are slowly working through the problems with cabinet 7, so please be patient but please keep pushing and checking with your ISPs. Most ISPs are…
Superfast Broadband Upgrade – successes and failures with cabinet 7
While a few residents have reported being successfully upgraded to FTTC in West Wickham over the last week, a great deal more have reported their FTTC upgrades have been indefinitely delayed. These reports can be summed up as follows: most residents who are experiencing delays have had at least two activation dates missed and are currently waiting for new activation…
First Village Hub Night – Saturday 25 March 2017, 7pm
Come to the Village Hall on Saturday 25 March for a social evening. Charity bar, beer specially brewed locally for the occasion (or bring your own drink and make a donation) and music. Bring a friend and come and meet people from the village. Doors open 7pm until 11PM
Daisy Chains Annual Quiz Night – Saturday 25 February, 8.00pm (correction)
Please come and join us for a fun evening at our Quiz Night on Saturday 25 February, 8.00pm, to support your local preschool. There will be a bar and nibbles, but feel free to bring your own snacks. We look forward to seeing you all at the Village Hall for a fun, social evening. Tickets £3.00 on the door or…