Early in 2021, Connecting Devon & Somerset, CDS (which is run jointly by Devon & Somerset County Councils), submitted their views to DCMS/BDUK in response to a call for information issued December 22, 2020 and called Planning for Gigabit Delivery .
CDS’s response to that document is confirmed in the announcement made by Oliver Dowden March 19 in the Policy Paper called Project Gigabit: Phase 1 Delivery Plan (CDS’s submission is listed in the appendix to the policy paper).
Please provide a full copy of the submission made by CDS and confirm whether or not that submission was reviewed and approved by Devon & Somerset County Councils prior to submission.
The CDS response is now in the public domain, and available from the CDS website.
A briefing summarising the CDS response to the DCMS consultation is available via this link. That briefing also includes a link to the consultation response in full:
https://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/project-gigabit-and-cds-2/
The submission was a technical response and delegated to senior officers from Devon and Somerset County Councils to approve.