Phone mast at centre of row to go up in Tettenhall
A mobile phone mast at the centre of a long-running wrangle will be installed permanently in a leafy suburb of Wolverhampton after a successful appeal.
Residents today said a "beautiful gateway into the city" would be ruined by the structure, to go on the forecourt of the Wergs Garage site in Tettenhall.
A temporary 49ft mast providing "emergency coverage" was installed on land at the garage in September.
And an appeal was launched by the communications firms the following month after their plans to install another 49ft mast permanently were rejected by Wolverhampton City Council.
Now the Planning Inspectorate in Bristol has given the go-ahead for a permanent mast to be built on the land off Wergs Road.
Score of residents objected to the application by Telefonica UK, while Wolverhampton South West MP Paul Uppal and all three ward councillors wrote to planning bosses.
But inspector Victoria Lucas-Gosnold said the mast would have a "simple, uncluttered design" that would not be out of place.
Tettenhall Regis Councillor Jonathan Yardley said locals were "extremely disappointed" with the decision, which he said showed "no logic".
