Applicants Cignal Infrastructure UK had submitted a proposal to Cheshire West and Chester Council for a 20-metre 5G phone mast to be built on Parkgate Road, near the University of Chester’s Exton Park campus, by the junction of Hayes Park. It would come with additional equipment cabinets.
The UK is planning to roll-out 5G coverage across the nation as an infrastructure upgrade, with 3G coverage being gradually switched off by telecoms firms from January next year.
In a planning statement, the applicants said: “The very nature of installing new 5G mast infrastructure within such an urban setting requires a highly considered balance between the need to extend practical coverage reach with that of increasing risk of visual amenity intrusion.
“In this location, existing mast sites are not capable of supporting additional equipment compliment to extend coverage reach…
