The 3 Bournville councillors are extremely pleased to announce that the planning application to erect a 40 feet high mast in Bournville has been refused by the city council.

The application, from Vodafone and Telefonica, was seeking permission to erect a shared radio base station installation at the junction of Hawthorne Road and Heath Road and would have included the 40 feet high mast.

We have campaigned vigorously against this mast including meeting and explaining to planning officers our objections to this application.

At the January public meeting of the Full City Council, Councillor Dawkins had presented a petition containing hundreds of signatures and comments from the residents of Bournville objecting to this planning application proposing a mobile phone mast.

Councillor Nigel Dawkins said, ‘We have campaigned against every single planning application that seeks to install a mobile phone mast in Bournville because we believe 40 feet high phone masts are ugly, inappropriate structures that should not be located in residential areas. I am pleased to say that with this welcomed decision we have been successful in all of those campaigns'.