Residents have been left furious after a huge 5G mast appeared in their cul-de-sac with 'no warning'. Claire Brophy last week told how she 'nearly had a heart attack' when she returned home from work to find the 65ft 'rocket' pole looming on the other side of her garden fence.
Neighbours in Balderstone, Rochdale, have told the Manchester Evening News of their "extreme disappointment". Amy Openshaw said: "It isn't nice to look at.
When you're in the rooms at the top of the stairs, it is there, in your face. READ MORE: 'More money for millionaires than for the North': Greater Manchester Labour leaders react to mini-budget "We literally went to work and came home and it was there.
I'll probably tell more when all the leaves start dropping off, I'll see it a lot more then. There is a lot of open space where it could've gone, rather than literally there." Rochdale council refused planning permission for the installation in March last year because it would ‘represent an incongruous and dominant feature’ near homes.
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