Residents in South Bristol who suddenly found a 30 metre high phone mast appear at the bottom of their gardens without planning permission are now wondering when it's going to be taken down.
The phone mast was erected at the end of November 2020, with the phone mast company using emergency communications legislation to bypass the need for planning permission. They said the mast, at the back of the South Bristol Retail Park in Ashton Gate, was an emergency installation and would be up for a maximum of 18 months.
That expiry date would take them to earlier this week, at the end of May 2022, but the mast is still there. Now people living in Gerald Road and Smyth Road, whose back gardens the mast towers over, are now demanding the mast goes.
