Dismay at phone mast defeat
Ian PearsonAn MP has spoken of his disappointment after a mobile phone company won a fight to put up a mast yards from a Black Country primary school, despite objections from more than 200 people.
But Ian Pearson said that Wordsley residents must now learn to live with the mast. Hutchison 3G was refused planning permission to put up a mast 250 metres from Belle Vue Primary School in Lawnswood Road, Wordsley, in March. But the firm appealed against the decision.
The planning inspectorate in Bristol has now overturned the ruling.
Protesters are disappointed at the news the 41ft-high mast will go up. The move comes despite a wave of objections from residents and parents, pupils and staff at Belle Vue Primary.
Dudley South MP Ian Pearson, now a government minister for science, backed the protesters and wrote a letter objecting to the planning application.
Read the full story in the Express & Star.
http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/2007/09/03/dismay-at-phone-mast-defeat/
But Ian Pearson said that Wordsley residents must now learn to live with the mast. Hutchison 3G was refused planning permission to put up a mast 250 metres from Belle Vue Primary School in Lawnswood Road, Wordsley, in March. But the firm appealed against the decision.
The planning inspectorate in Bristol has now overturned the ruling.
Protesters are disappointed at the news the 41ft-high mast will go up. The move comes despite a wave of objections from residents and parents, pupils and staff at Belle Vue Primary.
Dudley South MP Ian Pearson, now a government minister for science, backed the protesters and wrote a letter objecting to the planning application.
Read the full story in the Express & Star.
http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/2007/09/03/dismay-at-phone-mast-defeat/
rudkla - 3. Sep, 16:51
