I live on a shared driveway (it's under my title) and have been "awaiting consent" since October 3rd. I was under the impression the law change in August should have come into effect by now, but it seems nothing has changed yet.
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Wheelbarrow01:
In regard to the conduit you installed - was this to service your own property only, or did you lay enough conduit to service every dwelling that shares the driveway? Chorus have a responsibility to provide a fibre lead in cable to every dwelling on the driveway at the time the first connection is made, so if you only laid conduit for yourself, they will still need to go down the full network design & build path to facilitate network capacity for everyone else on the driveway before your own connection can proceed.
If you did lay conduit for every dwelling, you can ask your RSP to place notes on the Chorus order to that effect, in an effort to bring it to their attention. Something like "The home owners sharing this driveway have already installed their own ducting, so they believe it should not require complex design & build. Please ask the Consent and/or Build teams to confirm and then proceed straight to scope". The Chorus provisioning team should pick this interaction up and pass it to the appropriate people for action.
It's not a guarantee, but generally this is how I get important messages from my customers passed on to the people who need them at Chorus. Unfortunately, RSPs are not permitted to contact the Chorus consent/build team directly. We can only pass messages to the Chorus provisioning team and then we have to trust that they pass them on to the appropriate channel.
And even if Chorus can use your ducting, they will most likely still need to do some minor build work to connect your duct to their own ducts on the roadside. This usually triggers a corridor access request which requires a rubber stamp from the local council, and additional wait time while it's processed. Doubly so if traffic management is required.
I'm not trying to dishearten you, I'm merely pointing out that what seems like a simple exercise in the eyes of a layman can quickly blow out to be something major. I wish you luck.
I'll start with a picture since it makes working through this stuff easier. 
At the bottom corner of the driveway is a rather large telecoms pit, The orange line are the 2x25mm conduits I laid when I replaced an old street lighting cable. I didn't want to run my conduits through the last stretch of garden to that pit at the time, as I ran out of conduit / motivation & it's not like I'm allowed to run my conduits right into that pit anyway (I'm an electrician, but civil works like this are not my regular field.). To get from the pit to those 2 there's a rather sad excuse for a garden that can very easily be dug by hand or with a trenching machine, no concrete etc to deal with. The green line is the route of the fibre connections that have already been installed in the front 4 houses.
I always knew getting fibre to houses 12, 14, 16, 28 & 30 would be a bit of a pain, but figured that at a couple of points in the conduit run some extra pits could get installed in order to allow branches off in those directions. I know there's no need for a corridor access request, all the works can be carried out on private property with no disruption to public roads / footpaths.
Your post has been rather enlightening though thank you, I'm not disheartened yet, but I'll admit I'm close, I'm tired of red tape holding things back and am at the point I'm willing to do all the civil works myself.
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