Superfast West Yorkshire and York Broadband

The Superfast West Yorkshire and York Broadband programme is delivered in partnership with Openreach and enables access to reliable, superfast broadband to thousands of homes and businesses across our region.

The Superfast West Yorkshire and York programme is now in its second phase and will target the final five per cent of postcode areas without access to superfast broadband.

These include the hardest to reach rural areas and urban areas not already targeted through either a commercial rollout or the previous phases of superfast broadband delivery. The second phase, delivered in partnership with Openreach, will enable 44,623 businesses and homes to connect to superfast broadband. 

To date, the overall programme has provided the opportunity for more than 100,000 premises including more than 5,000 businesses to connect to superfast broadband.  

Phase Two of the programme is being delivered across Bradford, Calderdale, City of York, Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield. 

The programme will deliver £113 million in net Gross Value Added (GVA) for the West Yorkshire and York area and offers a return on public sector investment of £8.21 to every £1 invested.

In this section

  1. Phase one

    The multi-million pound Superfast West Yorkshire project was set-up to expand on BT’s commercial rollout of fibre broadband with the aim of providing high-speed, fibre broadband to 97 per cent of West Yorkshire. Phase one is now complete.

  2. Phase two

    This second phase of the project will build on the successful work of Superfast West Yorkshire phase one and BT’s own commercial roll-out of the high-speed technology, to extend coverage of fibre broadband throughout the current programme area as well as Kirklees and parts of York.

  3. Gigabit broadband voucher scheme

    SME businesses, including home based businesses, across the UK can now benefit from grants of up to £2500 to get gigabit broadband installed to their business premises.

  4. Case studies

    Find out more from residents and businesses across West Yorkshire who have signed up to superfast broadband and are now enjoying all the benefits.

  8. Consultation

    So far we have completed two consultations to identify the best way to bring Superfast Broadband to the region.