Anger at company's bid to erect '50-foot high metal obscenity' near primary school
Councillors have angrily turned down a telecom firm’s bid to put a 50-foot ‘metal obscenity’ of a mast on land near a primary school in the Boothstown area of Salford. Three UK Ltd’s application also included a wrapround cabinet at the base of the 5G mast, three antennas, and three equipment cabinets and other ‘ancillary equipment’ on the land at Leigh Road, close to its junction with Boothshall Way and a stone’s throw from St Andrew’s CE Primary School.
At a meeting of the panel, Coun Bob Clarke described the prospect of the mast a ‘50-foot metal obscenity’. “It’s next to someone’s house and all the houses around can see it. It’s an obscenity,” he said.He said he could ‘see no reason’ why the telecoms firm couldn’t extend an alternative mobile mast that is already by the nearby Bridgewater Canal.
His views were echoed by Coun John Warmisham, who said: “These towers are an absolutel blight on an area and they are ruining the street scenes, not just in Salford, but across the whole country. This is scandalous and its being done for financial reasons. Coin Phil Cusack also weighed in saying: “There is an existing mast not far away [from the application site] that’s not fully covered in antennas.