A telecommunications company has been slapped with a huge fine in court after failing to switch off a generator and pulling down a mast.
Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL), which according to the company accounts is jointly owned by BT Group and CK Hutchinson Holdings, erected a temporary mobile phone mast on a golf course in Northenden in March 2018. It used emergency development rights to secure permission for the mast.
However, the mast and generator should have been removed by September 2019 because those emergency development rights came to an end. Manchester City Council refused to give planning permission to keep it on the land for a further 12 months.
