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Plan For Mobile Phone Mast
A MOBILE phone company has applied for the second time for planning permission to erect a 15-metre mast in Clare.
The mast, which would have three antennae and four dishes, would be located next to The Nuttery, an area planned as a nature sanctuary.
Town councillor David Neal said after negotiations with Orange, the Town council was “reluctantly in favour” of the location, at Church Farm in the High Street.
“It is really in default of anywhere better and in view of the problems with reception specific to Orange in the area. It is not by any means an ideal site, because it is next to the Nuttery, but it will be partially masked by trees and it is behind a hedge which screens the cemetery.”
Councillor Neal said it was difficult for people with Orange mobile phones to get reception in the village. “If people are going to have mobile phones - and I have not got one - then there has got to be a location where the signal can be received,” he said.
Although the council had found an alternative site it preferred for the mast, the owner of the land had not agreed to cooperate.
A previous plan for the mast to be constructed at Chilterns Stream, near Hermitage Meadow, had been turned down. The new application has been submitted to St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Date : 08-01-2004
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