Planners hit out at phone mast plan
CITY planners say they are getting weary of schemes for mobile phone masts on the edge of Rothwell Park.
A Defra inspector has dismissed an appeal for permission to put up a fake telegraph pole with associated equipment on the south-west side of Leeds Road at Oulton.
Coun Don Wilson (Lib Dem, Rothwell) told Leeds East plans panel: "This is about the fifth or sixth refusal on this particular site.
"I think telephone companies are working on the principle that if they put in plans often enough they will wear us down.
Procedure
"Is there a way of refusing this so we don't have to go through the whole procedure again?"
Planning officer John Redding said that under new legislation the plans panel could refuse to consider a scheme at the third time of asking – if it was basically the same scheme.
"In this case the applicants made it slightly different by making the pole look a little less fake. But the inspector wouldn't wear it."
In his report the inspector concedes this is the best location for the mast. But it would damage the green belt and so he turned it down.
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A Defra inspector has dismissed an appeal for permission to put up a fake telegraph pole with associated equipment on the south-west side of Leeds Road at Oulton.
Coun Don Wilson (Lib Dem, Rothwell) told Leeds East plans panel: "This is about the fifth or sixth refusal on this particular site.
"I think telephone companies are working on the principle that if they put in plans often enough they will wear us down.
Procedure
"Is there a way of refusing this so we don't have to go through the whole procedure again?"
Planning officer John Redding said that under new legislation the plans panel could refuse to consider a scheme at the third time of asking – if it was basically the same scheme.
"In this case the applicants made it slightly different by making the pole look a little less fake. But the inspector wouldn't wear it."
In his report the inspector concedes this is the best location for the mast. But it would damage the green belt and so he turned it down.
All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing
http://www.leedstoday.net/news?ArticleID=2704221
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