12/03/2026
Say it again for the people in the back
Broadband planning gets left to the end. Almost every time.
The build moves fast. Priorities stack up. Connectivity feels like something that can be sorted closer to handover. A utility, not a decision.
Then handover arrives. The building is done, residents are moving in, and the infrastructure that should have been specified at planning stage is now a retrofit job. Slower to deliver, more disruptive to install, and more expensive to get right than if it had been built in from the start.
Housing associations across Scotland are managing the consequences of that gap right now. Not because anyone made the wrong call. Because connectivity was never treated as a call to make at all.
Getting it right at design stage costs less and causes less disruption. The difference in outcome for residents on day one is not small.
At what stage does connectivity planning actually enter the conversation on your developments?