Tonight Stafford Borough Council's Development Control committee refused an application for planning permission to erect a 15 metre mobile telephone mast on the Shell service station in Walton. This is a great victory for all those who have campaigned so hard over recent weeks.
Town Councillors Jill Hood, Mark Green and I went down to Stafford to hear the decision being announced and left the room absolutely elated! Jill was quoted in the press last week as willing to lie down in the road to prevent this mast ever being built. Thank goodness she will not have to carry out her threat!
A protest meeting had been arranged for this coming Friday at the service station but I now understand that the meeting will now go ahead as a celebration event. Meet at 6.30 and come and smile for the cameras!
Well done everyone!
