PRESS RELEASE
Issued by:
Councillor Sarah Quinn
Pensby and Thingwall Ward
Date of Issue: 9th August 2007
Contact number:
07811 452494
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Local Councillor takes mast appeal to Secretary of State A Pensby Councillor has pledged to take her fight against a controversial ‘phone mast to the national corridors of power. Mobile phone company T-mobile have given notice that they will start building a controversial mobile phone mast in Pensby on 2 nd September 2007, following a Council error that gave planning permission by mistake. Local Liberal Democrat Councillor, Sarah Quinn, said, “I have been fighting this phone mast since the original application came in and I am not going to stop now”. “I have written to the Secretary of State for Local Communities, the Rt Hon Hazel Blears, MP, to appeal against the decision and ask for her intervention to quash the planning permission” “I don't see why the residents of Pensby should be the victims of this Council Officers' blunder. The residents are the ones that will suffer for years to come if this phone mast is built. “This phone mast should not be allowed to go ahead. The local residents don't want it. The planning committee didn't want it. T-mobile should be prevented from building it.” Local residents in Pensby have now signed two petitions against the original phone mast application in front of the Pensby shops and the alternative site that was suggested at the side of the shops on Fishers Lane . The alternative site was turned down by the Planning Committee which meant that the original site in front of the shops would go ahead.  Councillor Sarah Quinn at the site of the proposed phone mast by the bus shelter at Pensby shops. |