Cameford Court, Lambeth

From Fibre 'Not Spot' to High-Speed Hub

How SCCI and 4Fibre connected 80 apartments that had been without viable fibre broadband for years — bridging a 1km network gap and future-proofing the building for up to four fibre operators.

The Property

Cameford Court is a low-rise, brick-built mansion block on New Park Road, SW2, constructed in the 1930s in the Art Deco style. The building comprises 80 leasehold apartments set across several floors, with communal gardens and resident parking — a well-maintained period asset in a densely connected part of south London.

Its location sits at the convergence of Brixton, Clapham, and Balham, just off the South Circular Road (A205), placing it within easy reach of multiple transport links and commercial centres. The freeholder is Daejan Group, a long-established property investment and management company with a substantial residential portfolio across the UK.

Despite its urban setting and the surrounding area's generally strong connectivity, Cameford Court had remained without access to full-fibre broadband — an anomaly that the building's age, internal infrastructure, and distance from existing network capacity had made persistently difficult to resolve.

The Challenge

For residents, the absence of full-fibre broadband was a big issue in an area where fast, reliable connectivity is an increasingly basic expectation. For the freeholder, it represented a growing deficit in asset value and tenant experience that straightforward solutions had failed to address.

The building presented two distinct obstacles. Internally, the existing infrastructure was not fit for modern fibre deployment. Externally, Community Fibre's nearest point of capacity was over 1,000 metres away — well beyond the range of a standard MDU build, which the provider had also paused at the time.

Daejan Group had spent two years exploring potential solutions without success.

The Approach

The project was brought forward through a structured collaboration between SCCI Alphatrack, 4Fibre, the Daejan Group, infrastructure consultants Arc Partners, and Community Fibre. Critically, the scheme secured BDUK Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) funding, which made the commercial case viable and unlocked a route forward that two years of conventional approaches had been unable to find.

SCCI and 4Fibre took responsibility for both elements of the deployment: a full internal wiring programme across all 80 apartments, and a 1km external civils run to bridge the gap to Community Fibre's nearest network node. Rather than a minimum viable installation, the internal infrastructure was designed from the outset to accommodate up to four separate fibre operators — meaning no further drilling or cabling would be required for any future provider to connect.

Arc Partners advised the client throughout the process. Community Fibre's existing spare network capacity was incorporated into the solution rather than bypassed, making effective use of infrastructure that was already in place.

The Outcome

All 80 residents now have access to full-fibre broadband. The building is future-proofed for multi-operator connectivity without the need for additional civil works. GBVS funding was applied effectively to close the commercial gap that had stalled the project for two years, and the freeholder holds a materially improved asset.

The project is a practical example of what becomes possible when funding, infrastructure expertise, and network partnership are properly coordinated — and of what a well-advised client can achieve in circumstances where a straightforward solution simply does not exist.