Get Lost Vodafone

Vodafone have recently sent in a planning application to erect a 12 metre high mobile phone mast in Lower Elmstone Drive, Tilehurst, in the middle of a residential area where it will stick out like a sore thumb. As a comparison, the current street lights are 6 metres tall. Vodafone’s column will be twicw that height and have antennae on top adding another 2 metres, making 14 metres high in total. This will destroy the existing outlook of a pleasant tree-lined road and has already upset local residents.

Last summer Vodafone did a ‘consultation’ exercise and wrote to the 10 nearest houses with their proposal, outlining their intention to put in a planning application. Upset residents sent in a barrage of 40 protest letters,a clear indication of local feeling.

Well, the planning application has now arrived and I am working with local residents to get it rejected.

You can see the plans in the Planning section of Reading BC’s website at:

http://planning.reading.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_searchform.aspx

The reference number is 09/00289/TELE.

We cannot allow this monstrosity to be erected on our doorstep.

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