Mast appeal to Executive
14 October 2005
Yet another rejected proposal for a mobile phone mast in Dundee is being appealed to the Scottish Executive and, if its predecessors are anything to go by, city councillors could well see their decision overturned once again.
Vodafone is seeking permission to erect a 12-metre mast and three antennae on a footpath next to the westbound carriageway of Arbroath Road near the Mayfield sports ground.
The case has not yet been allocated to a Reporter at the Executive’s planning inquiry unit, but the decision will be made based on a site visit and written submissions by the company and the council.
Members of the development quality committee voted 18 to five to reject the application in June, even though it had been recommended for approval by officials.
Mobile phone companies have already won five cases for sites around the city — at the Clatto water treatment works, next to the bowling green in Victoria Park, on a chimney at Baltic Works in Annfield Street, on a site in Strathmartine Road near Cox Street and on the telephone exchange at Queen Street, Broughty Ferry.
No ruling on telecoms applications has gone the council’s way.
© All copyright D C Thomson & Co Ltd., 2005
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2005/10/14/story7639585t0.shtm
Yet another rejected proposal for a mobile phone mast in Dundee is being appealed to the Scottish Executive and, if its predecessors are anything to go by, city councillors could well see their decision overturned once again.
Vodafone is seeking permission to erect a 12-metre mast and three antennae on a footpath next to the westbound carriageway of Arbroath Road near the Mayfield sports ground.
The case has not yet been allocated to a Reporter at the Executive’s planning inquiry unit, but the decision will be made based on a site visit and written submissions by the company and the council.
Members of the development quality committee voted 18 to five to reject the application in June, even though it had been recommended for approval by officials.
Mobile phone companies have already won five cases for sites around the city — at the Clatto water treatment works, next to the bowling green in Victoria Park, on a chimney at Baltic Works in Annfield Street, on a site in Strathmartine Road near Cox Street and on the telephone exchange at Queen Street, Broughty Ferry.
No ruling on telecoms applications has gone the council’s way.
© All copyright D C Thomson & Co Ltd., 2005
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2005/10/14/story7639585t0.shtm
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