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Consultation outcome
Consultation on relaxing the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecommunications lines
- From:
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Part of:
- Broadband investment
- Published:
- 29 November 2011
- Last updated:
- 18 April 2013, see all updates
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This consultation has concluded
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Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers
PDF, 110KB, 2 pages
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Aylesbury Vale District Council
PDF, 101KB, 2 pages
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British Standards Committee
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Broadband Stakeholder Group
PDF, 84.1KB, 3 pages
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BT
PDF, 312KB, 4 pages
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Cable and Wireless
PDF, 198KB, 2 pages
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Campaign for National Parks
PDF, 151KB, 2 pages
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Campaign to Protect Rural England
PDF, 137KB, 3 pages
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Chilterns Conservation Board
PDF, 97.8KB, 3 pages
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Clywdian Range and Dee Valley AONB Joint Advisory Committee
PDF, 178KB, 2 pages
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Cumbria County Council
PDF, 48.5KB, 4 pages
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David Hall Systems Ltd
PDF, 69.7KB, 2 pages
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Department of the Environment Northern Ireland
PDF, 284KB, 6 pages
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Derbyshire County Council
PDF, 56KB, 2 pages
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Friends of the Lake District
PDF, 136KB, 5 pages
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Graham Philips
PDF, 123KB, 2 pages
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Historic Houses Association
PDF, 348KB, 5 pages
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Hull City Council
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Institute for Archaeologists
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Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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Natural England
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Planning Officers' Society
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Royal Town Planning Institute
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Scottish Government
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SSE plc
PDF, 174KB, 5 pages
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Virgin Media
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Detail of outcome
This consultation, which proposed to relax the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecoms lines, closed in February 2012. In September 2012, we unveiled a package of measures aimed at reducing the cost of roll-out of superfast broadband. This contained further proposals to relax the restrictions on overhead lines, and we published a further consultation in January 2013. Therefore, we didn’t feel it would be necessary to publish a formal response to this consultation. We are, however, pleased to publish these public responses, for information.
Original consultation
This consultation ran from
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Summary
We want your views on proposals to deploy new overhead telecoms lines to help bring superfast broadband to hard to reach areas.
Documents
Relaxing the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecommunications lines
PDF, 217KB, 20 pages
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Relaxing the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecommunications lines
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Impact Assessment: Relaxing the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecommunications
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Impact Assessment: Relaxing the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecommunications
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Consultation description
Update - 18 April 2013
This consultation, which proposed to relax the restrictions on the deployment of overhead telecoms lines, closed in February 2012. In September 2012, we unveiled a package of measures aimed at reducing the cost of roll-out of superfast broadband. This contained further proposals to relax the restrictions on overhead lines, and we published a further consultation in January 2013. Therefore, we didn’t feel it would be necessary to publish a formal response to this consultation. We are, however, pleased to publish the public responses, for information.
Original consultation text
As part of our ambitions to ensure the UK has the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015, the government is committed to reducing the barriers to investment and lowering the cost of deploying overhead telecommunications lines to help bring ‘superfast broadband’ (broadband speeds faster than 24 megabits per second) to hard to reach areas.
We are consulting on proposals to allow the deployment of new overhead telecoms lines, which could reduce the cost of deployment by up to 50% and help deliver superfast broadband into areas that would otherwise not be served by the market.
This consultation sets out how we intend to implement this, and what protections will remain in place for communities and rural areas.
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Document information
Published: 29 November 2011
Updated: 18 April 2013
- Added in public responses to consultation.
- First published.