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Find out the most expensive and trendiest parts of the district to buy a house.

Find out the most expensive and trendiest parts of the district to buy a house.

THE installation of a controversial 25-metre-high telecommunications tower has been given the green light. Braintree District Council have granted planning permission to the building of the tower at Colchester Institute Braintree Campus, formerly known as Braintree College on Church Lane. The 25-metre tower includes, six supporting antennas, four dishes and nine equipment cabinets, all to be contained within a compound enclosed by a two-metre-high mesh fence. The application, from Mobile Broadband Network Limited, received a number of objections from neighbours who argue the tower is ...

THE areas with the best and worst internet speeds in the Braintree district have been revealed. Across the area, broadband speeds range from a superfast 75.2 megabits (Mbps) per second to a snail-paced 2 Mbps, according to data from Uswitch.com. It means some families using Zoom, Skype or Facebook to speak to relatives and friends are faced with annoying freezes, cut-outs and sound delays. Meanwhile, those downloading films could be left waiting up to 120 hours, compared to just one minute 20 seconds in neighbourhoods with the fastest speeds. The average broadband speeds were collec...