Cant help but feel the upcoming VM/sky alliance and cityfibre is pushing their hand on this.
VM seem to love Leicester so I expect Leics will end up with FTTP from cityfibre and VM, and then openreach will magically decide its viable and announce the area. Although openreach already dont seem bothered VM are cleaning the area out so maybe not, almost everyone in the city and suburbs I know is on VM, and driving around checking WAP's indicates the same, and isnt enough to motivate them to try and get these customers via FTTP.