11-metre radio mast gets thumbs up from planners (From This Is Cheshire)

11-metre radio mast gets thumbs up from planners

10:57am Thursday 26th November 2009

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A RADIO mast which is more than 11 metres high at its peak has been given the go ahead in Stetton.

Members of the borough council’s development control committee backed the plans at their latest meeting last Wednesday.

The committee heard the amateur radio mast, at a home on London Road, will be 5.5 metres when lowered and 11.6 metres at its height.

It looks like a standard TV aerial.

Members of Stretton Parish Council objected to the proposal based on visual impact when the mast was raised.

They said it would be ‘very large’ and would disturb the neighbours close by.

There were also four objections from neighbours who claimed it would be out of keeping with the area and could interfer with current TV reception in the area.

But the committee was given expert evidence that Ofcom will regulate the aerial and that therefore it should not be a consideration.

The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) also told the planners that the erection of the aerial could be of value to the area for use in emergency situations.

Planning officers said that while they accepted the mast would be visable for most people living nearby, the problems would not be severe enough to warrant refusal.

Members of the committee voted unanimously to approve the blueprints.

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