Category: Mast

View looking into Fulmer Close

Much to the consternation of local people, the Telecommunications Mast in Redhatch Copse, objected to by just about everybody during the Planning Application phase has finally been erected.

Not only does it seem to be placed closer to houses in the Fulmer Close and Sibley Park Road than it looked like it would be from the plans submitted to Wokingham Council Planning Department. We also now get to see what a 30 Meter mast looks like in reality! Clearly the ‘test’ pictures submitted in the Visual Impact Assessment along with the planning application showed little of the impact that the steel structure now appears to deliver. Was that a deliberate ploy?

View looking from Sibley Park Road

I understood that from 2013, local residents were going to be in a ‘real’ position to influence planning application decisions where they would have a direct and detrimental impact to the local environment. It appears that this is one example where that did not apply.

One wonders now, just how much impact the development of the houses on the Sibley Hall grounds will be when it goes ahead. Let alone the demolition of Sibley Hall itself. Clearly the impact to the local surroundings will be much higher than we have been led to believe based on the images, surveys and planning application information that was submitted and granted despite much local resident opposition.

What a difference moving the aerials from Sibley Hall has made.

Well done Wokingham Council, thanks for another job well done.