Phone mast plans refused
New police station, Earlham Road
A campaign has stopped two phone masts from being built in south Norwich.
Local people argued the 50 ft masts were “ugly and intrusive” and succeeded in getting the applications turned down.
The applications were for two masts measuring 50ft outside the new police station on Earlham Road and the former Shoemakers pub in West Earlham. Vodaphone and o2 are working to improve their network coverage in the area. Since 2002, fifteen applications for phone masts in The Avenues/ Earlham Road area have been refused, following similar campaigns by the local community.
“These campaigns are all about people in the community. It’s their community and what they think matters.” said Sarah Grenville who co-ordinated the latest campaign, with the backing of local Labour ward councillors. She added: “The stopping of the two extra big masts was a double success because the decision did not need to go to committee.”
In December 2010, local people objected to plans to site mobile phone antennae within a church just off Unthank Road, which caused the church to withdraw from the negotiations.
James Stevenson, spokesperson for the company, WFS Telecom Ltd, who made the applications explained their next step: “We’ll go and look again at the area and see if there are any discounted options we can return to. Otherwise we’ll consider making an appeal.”
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presumably ‘the community’ whom ms grenville claims to speak for will now stop using mobiles and dongles? ms grenville doesn’t speak on behalf of everyone as she seems to think, just a vocal nimby luddite minority. the masts are needed.