Back to the drawing board for telecommunications company
RESIDENTS have won their battle to prevent a giant telecommunications tower from being installed on land adjacent to Grimsby Rugby Club’s ground off Springfield Road.
North East Lincolnshire Council has this week rejected an application by Icon Tower Infrastructure Ltd to replace an existing 20-metre high monopole mast with a more elaborate structure consisting of a 25.5-metre tower with an array of antennae, dishes and equipment cabinets all to be set within a security compound
The site is adjacent to the Scartho Conservation Area.
The proposal did not go before the authority’s planning committee but was determined under delegated powers by case officer Own Toop.
In his report, published on Monday, he concludes: "It is considered that there are grounds of adverse impact in relation to the siting and appearance of the proposal and that it intrudes and detracts from the character of the area.
"Additionally there is insufficient information under this application to assess impacts in relation to an existing protected tree."
Some 20-plus residents - mostly householders in Faulding Way and Pelham Avenue - had written to the council to voice their applications, mostly on visual grounds and the threat to much-valued trees.
Although they have won the battle, they may not have won the war.
The Didsbury-based applicants have the right of appeal which, if exercised, would lead to an inquiry by an officer from the Planning Directorate.
However, such is the appeals backlog that, if submitted, this might not be heard until well into next year.
The design of the mast rejected by planners
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