Policy information sourced from the Southwark Local Plan 2022
P44 Broadband and digital infrastructure
Major development must:
- Enable the delivery of fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband or equivalent technology for future occupants and users of the proposed development, with superfast speeds being the minimum offered; and
- Provide FTTP, or equivalent, connections to existing, poorly serviced properties in the vicinity of the development where there is an identified need; and
- Engage with UK mobile network operators (MNOs) and digital infrastructure providers regarding the installation of wireless broadband and telecommunications aerials.
Digital infrastructure development must:
- Be designed and sited to avoid harmful impacts on public amenity or unacceptable street clutter in the public realm; and
- Avoid harm to the significance of heritage assets or their settings and support local distinctiveness; and
- Demonstrate an absence of alternative sites, including, but not only, the possibility of sharing of existing masts and sites; and
- Provide self-certification to the effect that a mobile phone base station when operational will meet the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNRP) guidelines; and
- Provide a statement for each site indicating its location, the height of the antenna, the frequency and modulation characteristics and details of power output and where a mobile phone base station is added to an external mast or site, confirmation that the cumulative exposure will not exceed the ICNRP guidelines.
For more information please see the Southwark Local Plan 2022