Councillors have angrily turned down a telecom firm’s bid to put a 50-foot ‘metal obscenity’ of a mast on land near a primary school in the Boothstown area of Salford.
Three UK Ltd’s application also included a wrapround cabinet at the base of the 5G mast, three antennas, and three equipment cabinets and other ‘ancillary equipment’ on the land at Leigh Road, close to its junction with Boothshall Way and a stone’s throw from St Andrew’s CE Primary School.
Members of the city’s planning and transportation regulatory panel have previously voiced their frustration and fury at being unable to prevent telecoms masts being erected in random locations outside homes across the city because of Government legislation.
But having being asked for their consent on this occasion they turned the application down, regardless of officers’ recommendations to approve it.
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