Phone mast plan for football club
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Port Vale Football Club is to save £80,000 on the cost of a floodlight by agreeing to host a mobile telephone mast at Vale Park.
O2 wants to put up the mast attached to the new floodlight, between the Railway Paddock and Hamil Road End stands.
The telecoms company came to an agreement with the club after Stoke-on-Trent College opposed plans to upgrade a mast on its Burslem campus.
The city council has yet to rule on O2's planning application.
Ash Connor, chairman of the Port Vale Supporters Trust, told BBC News: "Attitudes to mobile phone masts have mellowed with some of the reassurances recently that they are safe.
"But there are certainly some supporters against the principle of it.
"I would certainly side with people living near the club and not want the mast."