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Summary

This document is designed and written as a guidance note to housing developers who intend or who wish to consider the laying of ducting on development sites, and within dwellings, for the delivery of data services. The guidance gives developers the opportunity to add benefits to new developments and add to the marketability of their dwellings.

The practical guidance in this document aims to:

• give developers the opportunity to consider the installation of infrastructures within new developments and dwellings to support the later provision of data services by third parties
• reduce the risk of 'non-standard infrastructures' (for example using ad hoc ducting types and topologies) leading to future incompatibility issues within different developments.

The guidance is not technology or service specific neither is it intended to promote any particular cabling type, wireless solution and network technology or data service. Rather it aims to be generic to enable developers to make their own informed choice of the infrastructure model that is best suited to their development.

This document has undergone extensive consultation with government and industry to understand their requirements to make this document as practical and user friendly as possible. However, we would recommend that you seek professional guidance from the relevant field of expertise to complement this document.

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