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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Charlotte Green

Towering 5G masts blasted 'visually incongruous' as council's decision to reject 15m pole overturned

Plans for towering 5G masts are causing ‘pain’ to chiefs in Tameside after council rejections were overturned at appeal.

Tameside council’s head of planning, Melanie Hale, told a recent meeting that she was ‘disappointed’ to find that the planning inspectorate had disagreed with the authority’s decision to refuse permission for a 15m high monopole in Denton.

Town hall officers had ruled that the proposal for the pole and power cabinet on Hyde Road would be ‘visually incongruous’.

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