Neighbours slam 65ft 'monstrosity' towering over homes in Greater Manchester cul-de-sac
29.09.2022 - 23:33
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Residents have been left furious after a huge 5G mast appeared in their cul-de-sac with 'no warning'.
Claire Brophy last week told how she 'nearly had a heart attack' when she returned home from work to find the 65ft 'rocket' pole looming on the other side of her garden fence. Neighbours in Balderstone, Rochdale, have told the Manchester Evening News of their "extreme disappointment".
Amy Openshaw said: "It isn't nice to look at. When you're in the rooms at the top of the stairs, it is there, in your face.
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"We literally went to work and came home and it was there. I'll probably tell more when all the leaves start dropping off, I'll see it a lot more then. There is a lot of open space where it could've gone, rather than literally there."
Rochdale council refused planning permission for the installation in March last year because it would ‘represent an incongruous and dominant feature’ near homes. But the decision was overturned, and residents now say they simply came home one day to find the mast installed within touching distance of their back gardens.
Amy said she has been left powerless to stop it, and joked: "Unless I went over and tried to take it down myself"
One resident, who wanted to stay anonymous, told the M.E.N that they were 'not a NIMBY', but wished they had had better communication about the pole.
"I came home from work to find that this monstrosity had been erected at the back of my property," they said. "We are extremely disappointed and angry that we were not given a chance to appeal this decision."
Mobile infrastructure firm Cornerstone said it ‘gives great consideration to minimising