INCA has written to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Sir Chris Bryant MP, highlighting three urgent barriers to full-fibre broadband deployment that require ministerial intervention.
The letter identifies MDU (multi-dwelling unit) wayleave difficulties that are preventing fibre access to flats and apartments, Higher-Risk Building safety legislation that is inadvertently blocking routine fibre installations, and overly complex permitting processes that are slowing network deployment across the country.
Each of these barriers is within the government’s power to address, and each is actively stalling the rollout of the very infrastructure that the government’s own broadband targets depend on.
INCA is calling on the minister to reform MDU wayleave processes, clarify HRB safety regulations to exempt routine telecoms work, and simplify permitting for fibre network deployment.
The letter is available on our Resources page.