The Parish Council has received some queries about the appearance of and location of a new green cabinet, situated near the junction of Welsh Row and Congleton Road, adjacent to the Jubilee bench.
The cabinet is part of the new superfast broadband facility that is planned to be implemented in Nether Alderley this year.
The Parish Council made inquiries of the Connecting Cheshire team about the location of the cabinet and received the following response
Q: How did you determine the exact location of the new cabinet?
The Connecting Cheshire programme will reach over 80,000 additional premises (that would not be covered commercially) in mainly outlying and rural communities. Any delays to the installation of cabinets put areas at risk of not receiving fibre broadband through the Connecting Cheshire programme due to the challenging time constraints we have with our European funding. As such the Government has removed much of the ‘red tape’ related to the commissioning of these cabinets to assist in the rapid deployment of fibre networks across the country.
Around 450 new roadside cabinets will be rolled out by Connecting Cheshire. The location chosen for the new green fibre cabinet is determined by a number of factors. BT’s Openreach Planning contractors assess the current location of the green roadside cabinets and wherever possible use the existing infrastructure, if in good condition, to ensure minimal disruption to the local area. If this is not a viable option they then determine a suitable location for the new cabinet taking into account existing utilities’ underground infrastructure such as gas and water mains that cannot be moved, access to power (the new cabinets require electricity to power the new fibre-optic equipment inside), width of footpaths, ease of safe access for Openreach engineers and distance.
Ideally Openreach aim to locate the new cabinet within 50m of the existing cabinet. The proposed location is then forwarded to the Highways Authority for their review and if there is no objection, the cabinet is stood. It is safe to say that every cabinet requires an element of civils’ activity i.e. in every case a hole is dug for the cabinet base, and in most cases a short trench will be required to pick up the power and network. In most cases the impact to the highway will be minimal, but even when we place the cabinet on soft verges there may be impact to the footway/highway for a short period of time.
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