9:52am Tuesday 31st March 2009
By Morwenna Blake
A MOBILE phone mast at Bemerton Folly has been given the go-ahead by a planning inspector.
Residents objected to plans for the mast, on land at Westwood Road, fearing it would attract youngsters on motorbikes and quadbikes and that it would encourage flytipping.
They also raised concerns the 24-metre high structure, on land designated a nature reserve in 2004, would be a magnet for vandals, who would attack it with air rifles and catapults and start fires there.
Planning officers recommended the Vodafone application be approved when it went before Salisbury District Council’s city area planning committee in October, but councillors turned it down, branding it ‘a monstrosity’.
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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4247811.Bemerton_phone_mast_gets_go_ahead/
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Upset over phone mast plans
11:50am Tuesday 31st March 2009
RESIDENTS of Wain-A-Long Road in Salisbury are upset about plans to put a mobile phone mast outside their homes.
Orange wants to put up the 38ft mast on the verge close to the St Mark’s roundabout.
It has already had applications turned down for sites in Campbell Road and Castle Hill and says a mast is essential to its network coverage of the north eastern part of the city.
But objectors to the plan have complained to council planners that it will be “a monstrosity” which will devalue their homes.
They also say it will be an eyesore for visitors travelling into the city.
Local councillors also have their doubts.
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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/4247853.Upset_over_phone_mast_plans/
