£100m Superfast North Yorkshire Project completes

The £100m Superfast North Yorkshire project has now been completed with 200,000 plus premises having benefitted from a broadband boost.

The programme was managed by Nynet in collaboration with Openreach and Quickline and was overseen by North Yorkshire Council.  

The council’s leader and Nynet Board Member, Cllr Carl Les Superfast, now pledges to engage with the Government to ensure the remaining premises are addressed through Project Gigabit.

The council’s leader, Cllr Carl Les, is also a board member for the NYnet broadband company which is owned by the local authority and manages the programme.

He said: “We have had issues in North Yorkshire, which is largely down to the vast rural areas in the county. The superfast broadband programme in North Yorkshire has been instrumental in providing far better connections for tens of thousands of people. 

“It has given a strong foundation for attracting new enterprises as well as helping to ensure that rural communities can remain sustainable in the future.”

Grants for the project were obtained from BDUK, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development operated by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Openreach. 

Openreach’s Partnership Manager for Yorkshire and the Humber, Matthew Lovegrove, said: “The success of the Superfast North Yorkshire partnership is a great achievement and testament to the team who have worked so hard for the past 12 years.

Quickline CEO Sean Royce, added: “The delivery of the Superfast North Yorkshire programme means thousands more homes and businesses, can now access much improved broadband speeds which will change their lives for the better.”