Yet again I chased up all the relevant parties this week, speaking to and emailing BT Openreach, the Council, Northern Powergrid and the Arnison Centre owners and indirectly, their Lawyers.

In short, the current hold up has been between Arnison centre lawyers and NPG.

Having spoken to NPG today they have returned documents which once signed by either the lawyers or the Arnison Centre owners will allow Northern Powergrid to come on site and dig the trench to supply electric to the Broadband box.

I chased up the Arnison Centre owners today to ask them to push their lawyers to respond quickly.

Once they have signed and returned to NPG the docs, NPG will book in the work, which could be anything from 4-8 weeks before NPG are on site due to Christmas holidays etc and they can’t start earlier because we have now reached the busiest period for the Arnison Centre and the disruption to the HGV access and bus gate is not allowed.

Unfortunately, in addition a small part of the area to dig up is public highway so that needs approving via the council which is something else we are going to chase up.

From NPG completing the works, Openreach have now confirmed to me that it would only take them 2 weeks to have the box fully active.

So best case scenario is now February for go live.

Needless to say I’m not holding out much hope of that given all the previous promises from so many parties, but given we would probably be still be at least a year away from getting this sorted if we hadn’t been intervening, a few more months wait is better than the alternative.

We will continue to chase everyone we need to right through to a successful conclusion.

So now we wait to see how long the Arnison Centre and their Lawyers take to sign the docs and return them to NPG.

The clock is once again ticking………