The Superfast Cornwall partnership says superfast broadband is now available to a further 1,450 households and businesses in 25 Cornish communities.

It is the start of the next phase of the fibre broadband roll-out in Cornwall, which will see £7.6 million invested to reach more than 8,000 further premises in some of the county’s most challenging locations by early 2018.

In this latest phase, Cornwall Council and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is investing alongside the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme and BT. 

Julian German, Cornwall Council’s cabinet member for economy and culture, said: ’Cornwall Council remains committed to the challenging target of ensuring that every property has access to fast, reliable broadband, and these latest areas to be enabled represent another step forward into some of the most challenging rural parts of Cornwall.’

The latest Superfast Cornwall roll-out covers areas including Carkeel, Golitha Rise and Heathlands Business Park, Liskeard, Trevelmond and Pengelly, near Dobwalls, Lanjeth near St Austell, Stoke Climsland, Widegates, No Mans Land, Lower Clicker and Morval and Latchbrook, Saltash.