The Greater Manchester town facing plans for SEVEN new telecoms masts that council are powerless to stop
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA telecoms company has unveiled plans to erect SIX telecoms masts measuring 50ft high around the Wigan borough in recent weeks with the town’s planning officers and councillors powerless to stop them.
In addition, telecoms giant EE has applied for permission to put a seventh giant 100ft mast on an industrial estate in the town.
The half-dozen notifications from Blackburn-based IX Wireless Ltd have appeared on Wigan council’s planning portal. It comes against a backdrop of pre-election comments from culture secretary and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy calling for greater regulation over where and how the masts are located.
Legislation passed by the previous government allows masts to be put up in residential areas without the need for planning permission provided they are no higher than 15 metres - or 50ft.
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