Thinkbroadband has hinted that the UK may start to see Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) deployed by BT as early as 2008.

Openreach is laying out proposals for a based fibre deployment to Greenfield sites, and if this is successful it could possibly be increase to include Brownfield sites, although this will be more expensive to implement.
FTTP using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) has the possibility working over lengths of 16km with initial speeds being around 10Mbps downstream and 2Mbps upstream although support for speeds up to 1Gbps is possible.

The interesting bit is that as these Greenfield site will be all fibre, there will be no copper infrastructure to support existing xDSL technology. This means that BT are mooting the pricing of FTTP to be roughly equivalent to that of existing xDSL connections.
Now before you all go and sell your houses to move to a new housing estate it's worth remembering that these are long term plans, but it's encouraging to see BT starting to realize that the UK is seriously lagging behind many other countries when it comes to fast internet connections.