A 40m tall phone mast can now be built at a football stadium as a planning appeal has overturned the previous refusal.
A 40m tall phone mast can now be built at Motherwell FC’s home ground as aIn October the local planning committee refused to allow Wireless Infrastructure Group’s application for the mast at Fir Park Stadium, but applicant Wireless Infrastructure Group has now successfully appealed to the Scottish Government.
NLC’s planning officers had originally recommended granting the application but the committee decided against this, arguing that the proposal was against the local development plan. However, the Scottish Government has now found in favour of the application. The decision notice states that as this is a replacement mast it is an established site for telecommunications and acceptable in principle.
The notice also states that the mast will not be visually incongruous due to the floodlights already present at the stadium.
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