>> With larger new properties the cost of cabling is higher (trenches, cable, junction boxes etc)
>> and the price of data comms gets ever lower using mobile networks.
I would have thought that with a new build, bearing in mind electricity and both fresh and foul water have to be trenched then a conduit for fibre optic cable would be automatic at next to no cost. That's more or less what was done here as a new build 25 years ago albeit the telecoms conduit only carried copper wire.
In the last 12 months Gigaclear have been round and added provision for fibre to the premises. The main estate was built in the sixties/seventies and there they've dug trenches along the pavement laying conduit/fibre as they go. Pretty much evey address in the village of around 4,000 people now has FTP available.
Although Gigaclear have a retail offer and have leafletted ad nauseam in practice the infrastructure is available to all the usual providers. I can access it through my provider, PLusnet, for a reasonable monthly payment. We've yet to take it up but a couple of houses have.
>> We recently moved and when looking at new village properties found in some developments broadband
>> connectivity was 4/5G and gas supply was by way of large tanks on site with
>> bulk deliveries. Welcome to the 21st century.
I've quite a few friends who have dropped all wired connections for phone and internet relying on 4/5G instead. Initially they were in urban areas but it's becoming viable in other places as well. There was an experiment locally to replace the phone landline with an radio service 20 or so years ago. This would have been long before universal digital broadband and I don't know what technology was used. It came to naught in the end and the company packed up. There's still the off house with the antenna on the wall; like the 'squarial' a memorial to a technological cul de sac.
Tanked gas as you describe is the new off grid solution; the niche once filled by oil fired heating. Colleague I worked with in London who retired to his native Scotland has it. I don't know if it's always LPG but his is. There is, as you say, a bulk tank which is connected to individual homes via a smart meter.
He said it frighteningly expensive and that's before the current shenanigans.
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