Updating the Community.
The competition entry for a Wi-Fi Network Broadband service to cover a combined community of ~16 000 residents in the Galleywood, Hanningfields, Ingatestone, Roxwell, Stock and Writtle area was hand delivered by the deadline of 30th April.
The application has been made under the organisation’s new name, CRISP (Chelmsford Ring Internet Service Provision) initially to cover the approximate area, shaded green, on the attached map.
EEDA have announced a reduction from 195 applications in mid April to 102*as at 1st May, bidding for a share of the £3.3M. The CRISP entry is an ambitious but well planned community supported application, combining the experience, specific skills, enthusiasm of many volunteers who have identified current market failure and investigated a number of technical solutions with established integrators and their customers around Cambridge and the rural areas Suffolk.
Preliminary work is in hand with community representatives from the previous individual steering groups and organisations to establish CRISP as a Partnership to effectively manage the planning, construction, installation and provision of a Broadband service with specific benefit and value to the Community. This will prepare the ground for the anticipated announcement of the successful applications in late June, and the award of funding.CRISP have planned, subject to adequate funding award, to commence network build during September, followed by an initial service being established by year end.
Use is being made of established community websites: -
www.galleywood.org.uk www.galleywoodparishcouncil.org.uk www.itsabc.co.uk www.stock.org.uk etc and their links to announce future CRISP activities, and specifically when the funding award has been made.
John Turkentine.
Galleywood Demand Broadband
