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<p>I can confirm there will be 3 new EE sites and 3 planned Extended Area Service
(EAS) sites located in the constituency of High Peak as part of the Emergency Services
Network (ESN).</p><p>All new EE sites are being built and delivered to agreed Home
Office timeframes and where possible will go live earlier to support commercial coverage.
Two of the three EE sites in High Peak have planning permission. Commercial services
are not currently provided from these masts as they have not yet been activated, but
it is EE’s intention to do so when the sites are live.</p><p>In respect of EAS sites
I can confirm that there are currently 3 sites proposed in High Peak, two of these
are located at Snake Pass, and the other at Howden Reservoir. This may reduce to 2
pending planning authority engagement on site locations as 1 nominal location (Howden
Reservoir) is close to the High Peak Constituency boundary and may move outside. These
sites are in the early stages of Acquisition & Design and therefore none have
Heads Of Terms or planning permission approved and therefore have not progressed into
build thus far.</p><p>To provide the necessary coverage for the emergency services,
EE is building over 500 new sites. Up to 291 of these new sites will transfer to the
Home Office at contract end. EE is paid a fixed fee for the ESN service and as such
there is no site-by-site subsidy for these 291 sites. EE is making available early
and extensive details of all shareable new sites, including locations, to other mobile
network operators as soon as they have planning permission and terms have been agreed
with the landlord. EE has provided details of 350 sites to date.</p><p>Separately
the Home Office, through the EAS project, are delivering circa 292 individual sites.
I would also like to reassure you that the Home Office has been proactive in seeking
to build masts that support multi-operator use where practicable. The Home Office
provided an initial generic cost for EAS site build as part of the programme full
business case however, given we are at the early stages of initial build cost assessments
for EAS sites that are now working their way towards build instruction, we have no
approved costs at this time and therefore no data to provide actuals. The same applies
to the sites in early acquisition and design phase for the specific High Peak Area
detailed</p><p>Finally I thought it helpful to remind you that ESN is designed to,
first and foremost, deliver a ‘blue-light’ communications service.</p>
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