@nodrogd Also any work involving a third party (construction team, local authority work permit aquisition) is outside their control, so is exempt under the automatic compenstaion scheme.
That's not quite what the linked info says. Construction team delays are FULLY within VM's control, as is the condition of ducts and local cabling. If VM don't keep their ducts tidy and clear of redundant cables, that's not a new customer's problem, nor are any problems in contractor scheduling or communications. What is excluded is delays down to factors genuinely outside of the company's control such as landlord or HMO approvals, or LA streetworks permits. However, the need for any local authority permit is business as usual and should be allowed for in any installation, added to which I'd also observe that in instances where customers have been told of LA caused delays and then checked, it has been the case that VM had either not asked for the permit, or had asked it and it had quickly been issued. In the normal run of things, streetworks permits are issued promptly, and the perception of councils taking months to do this is not representative, but is often a convenient fiction for certain inefficient companies.
My personal view is that VM's auto compensation scheme is anything but automatic, and that @findmak will automatically get nothing. That doesn't mean you can't get compensation, but you may have to do some work and it will take some time, and it will only be credited once you are connected. It'll also be made more challenging because VM's pre-installation process is diabolical, and the chances of actually being able to speak to anybody who both knows the facts and will tell them to you are very low indeed.
So for the time being, you're stuck. When you're connected, raise a formal complaint if you can't see a delayed install credit on your account, asking for £5.04 per day (per Ofcom rules) between the 30th June and whenever they get it sorted. Maybe that will get a result, personally I'd say expect this to be fobbed off with a truly crap cut'n'paste response. In which case you could check with the LA if a streetworks permit was requested at your address, and if so on what date it was requested and what date it was issued. Likewise, if this is a rented house, check with the landlord if permission was delayed (normally you'd have requested this permission, not VM, so you should know). If it does turn out the delays were entirely or largely down to the LA or landlord, then you get nothing, and that's the end of the matter. If the delays were not down to those external factors, but the complaint is still fobbed off, then you escalate the complaint to the industry arbitration scheme CISAS, asking for delayed installation compensation, plus compensation for the poorly handled complaint and the hassle of having to take the matter to arbitration. If you need to go to CISAS, under the scheme rules you either have to wait eight weeks since the complaint was submitted to VM, or you don't need to wait if you can get VM to quickly issue a deadlock letter saying that they can't agree to your requested resolution.
Sounds a lot of hassle, on the other hand £5.04 per day soon mounts up, and if you need to escalate there should be a modest additional compensation element on top. Obviously if VM don't want these sort of outcomes then they could do proper pre-install checks, and give the customer an accurate installation date.
