Myself and 25 other households zoned Rural Residential are at the end of a road on the edge of Dunedin's residential area. We're outside the UFB rollout zone. My neighbour is zoned R1 and gets UFB. 

The length of road that is out of zone is approx 580m. With 25 properties that's approx 1 property per 23m of road frontage. Compared to the R1 area (same road, but in zone) they are 1 property per 38m of road frontage along the road. While our sections of land are larger, the actual density of households per m of road frontage is actually greater. This is due to properties being behind other properties. 

We approached Chorus to get a quote for extending the UFB zone to include us all, but this came back at $520,833. While we are prepared to pay some costs (eg cover costs of on property trenching etc) paying half a million dollars is not feasible.

Who determines which properties are covered by UFB? Especially when our household density is about the same as the areas which are covered by govt funding? How likely is this to change in the near future? Eg would the govt/Chorus review the rollout plan and extend further? If we waited another couple of years would we eventually get a free connection? Or is it never going to happen if we don't take matters into our own hands? Chorus map out to 2022 shows nothing for us.