Skylark Rise is on the cabinet picked for FTTP and will get 100mbit (soon to be 330mbit) in the coming months. People on the 4 other cabinets in town that had FTTC upgrade are now live for upto 76mbit.

The BT checker is only showing FTTC data and not FTTP at this time and that is why you get no BT Infinity result at this time.

The 17mb BT told you is nothing to do with Infinifty, it is ADSL2 upto 24mbit that will happen August to November this year when Whitchurch exchange is 21c enabled (knowing BT this will be late).

2 or 3 more FTTC cabinets are to be installed soon outside the town to give high speed broadband to outskirts of Whitchurch.

You can order FTTC from most ISP’s not just BT… BT Infinity is just the name BT use for FTTC.

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Ed. note: As we reported in the article, some of the cabinets are working and many around town are now able to place orders for the faster broadband. As we previously reported, BT told us that the roll-out to everyone would be delivered in phases: Faster Broadband Approaching Slowly. We have not been told by BT of any dates being November although some work at the Whitchurch telephone exchange this week has prevented at least one person from signing up for the BT Infinity package.

Knowing we are producing energy without the need to dig giant mines in the ground then burning the coal and polluting the air, or even worse creating stock piles of nuclear waste, not to mention potential nuclear disasters that decimate entire cities and pollute tens of thousands of square miles, I vote wind power, solar power or wave power every time.

There is a strange sense of irony about it green energy as it is far from a new idea, we live in a Town that was built on Mills powered by water, so why not harness this again and pay testament to the Towns history? Mills for years where run on wind and water and finally after several decades the penny has dropped that in this case, the old ways where in fact better, and certainly a lot cleaner!

Fresh-air fitness is another company that supply this sort of equipment as well as a company called Wickstead. I’m not affiliated to any of these companies, just purely putting their names so people can go off and “google” them in case they do not understand what is meant by “outdoor fitness equipment”

These would be great if they were spread around the town as people could then jog or cycle between them as part of an overall work out.

That condition with regards to power and heating will be aggravated if the Gulf Stream re-orientates.

A local pullover factory could do well.

It might inlcude a bit of strategic planing to ensure that things like parking serve those needs and wider needs. in our community.

The Sports and Social Club has lots of parking and should there be any housing development in the school area provision for other social needs like greenspace and parking should be considered. Such parking should include charging points for electric mobility scooters and bicycles and cars.

I doubt that any pylons would cross the town – too expensive and too much hassle from the local community.

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