Digitally Connecting Rural Kent and Medway
- Capital Investment - Getting Building Fund, Kent & Medway, More than £2m
Approval Status
Fully Approved
Delivery Status
GBF Project Delivered
Project Completion Date
Spring 2022
The project will enable broadband connections to businesses and residents that are unable to access connectivity of 30 Mbps or above, within postcode areas in the ‘final 4%’ that are not served by the rollout of existing schemes.
The project will provide a top-up voucher to the existing Rural Gigabit Voucher scheme funded by Government and delivered by Broadband Delivery UK. This will mean that residents and businesses in the ‘hardest to reach’ areas will be able to get a voucher worth up to £7,000 to obtain connectivity, with the value of the voucher capped at the actual cost of connection.
It is anticipated that this project will directly bring connectivity to 671 premises. In addition, as increased connectivity will reduce the marginal cost of connection to neighbouring premises, it is expected that at least 222 further premises will be connected as a result.
| Project Outputs/Outcomes | |
|---|---|
| New super/ultrafast broadband connections | 893 |
| Jobs Created | 16 |
| Construction Jobs | 8 |
| Jobs Safeguarded | 50 |
| Businesses Assisted | 60 |
| Sqm of Public Realm or Green Space Created | 60 |
£85m of investment to East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock
The Getting Building Fund focuses on projects that can progress quickly and that will stimulate and better integrate economies in some of the most economically impacted and COVID-affected parts of the South East.
£85m of Getting Building Fund investment has been secured, enabling delivery of 45 projects across East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock.