Every autumn, the five commercial mobile telephone operators provide the Local Planning Authority (LPA) with information to show their plans for mobile network development in the area in the coming year.
Depending upon the scale and nature of the operators plans for the year the Council will hold roll-out meetings with the operators to ensure good co-ordination between these plans and the Council’s policies and other requirements.
This information is made available on the council’s website in order that communities and their elected Members can be involved with discussions regarding siting and design of equipment with operators prior to the submission of applications to the LPA.
It should be noted that the information provided by the operators indicates areas of search for new sites, and not specific locations, and thus offer the opportunity for influencing the precise siting of equipment at an early stage in the site identification process. Currently this information is available as a spreadsheet of each operators list of sites. The lists include existing sites, those with planning permission and any proposed sites. This information can be accessed using the following links in the read more section:
O2 Annual Roll Out
Orange Annual Roll Out
Vodafone Annual Roll Out
T-Mobile and 3 Annual Roll Out
The grid reference given in the spreadsheet are the centre points of proposed areas of search and not precise sites subject of specific applications to the LPA at this stage. Mobile operators are not bound to bring forward proposals for these areas of search during the coming year and nor does the identification of these areas prevent other sites being identified. Furthermore the identification of an area of search does not in anyway prejudice the consideration of any planning application or application for prior approval that may be required.
For further details regarding each search area, the operators concerned should be contacted directly, and their details are provided below:-
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Peter Foster, Central Acquisition and Planning Manager
peter.foster@o2.com
Orange
Gemma Bridges, Community Liaison Officer
Gemm.bridges@orange-ftgroup.com
Vodafone
Brian Truman, National Planning Manager
brian.truman@vodafone.com
T-Mobile
John Carwardine, Community Affairs Manager
john.carwardine@t-mobile.co.uk
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William Comery, Community Affairs Manager (Southern UK)
william.comery@ericsson.com