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NEW hope has been offered to the residents of Penally, as a planning error by telecommunications company MMO2 is to be queried by planning officers at Pembrokeshire County Council.
The planning application to site a TETRA mast in the village seems to extend over too wide an area, encompassing a site greater than that leased to the communications giant by the Penally landowner.
Ann Dassen, spokeswoman for the Penally Against Tetra Action Group said:
"We have found out that the proposals for the mast site relate to an area greater than that actually leased from the landowner.
"This has been pointed out to Pembrokeshire County Council, and although we are awaiting their response, we feel there might be hope."
Penally residents are currently fighting the second planning application to be submitted to the council by MMO2.
The first application, submitted in June last year, is to be put before a public inquiry in May after the telecommunications company appealed to the Welsh Assembly-appointed planning inspectorate in view of Pembrokeshire County Council’s apparent delay in processing the application.
As soon as the planning inspectorate ruled in favour of MMO2 and against the county council in the Uzmaston TETRA appeal last month the company put in an identical, parallel planning application into Pembrokeshire County Council for the Penally mast.
Powers accessible to English councils, which allow planning authorities to refuse to determine repeat or overlapping applications in certain circumstances, are not available in Wales.
A four page document specifying reasons against the erection of a TETRA mast, which would be situated close to a trust-owned holiday home for disabled children and their carers, and a petition with nearly 450 signatures has been presented to the council in the light of the latest planning application.
A spokeswoman for the county council confirmed that the authority will be “seeking clarification” on the most recent application with agents Arquiva, who are working on behalf of MMO2.
If the planning application does exceed the area leased to MMO2 by the landowner, it could have repercussions on the erection of a TETRA mast at Penally.
"If there were an issue over the area of land in question, it could have a significant effect on the proposal at Penally,” said a representative of the county council.
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