Comment

Representation ID: 22345

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Canal & River Trust

Waterways provide established corridors through the heart of urban areas with the potential to accommodate communications infrastructure with relatively little disturbance in comparison to, for example, digging up main roads and pavements in busy locations. There is a real opportunity to maximise the use of the Trusts existing fibre optic networks and the canal corridor and Trust s land holdings for the provision of new and improved infrastructure around densely populated areas, such as the routing of infrastructure for district heating schemes and increasing mobile cell density to create 5G towns and cities