VODAFONE TOLD TO REMOVE ANTENNAE FROM CITY CENTRE PROTECTED BUILDING

Date Published: 16-Aug-2007

Vodafone Ireland has been told by An Bord Pleanála that it must remove mobile phone antennae from a protected building in the city centre.The company had appealed a decision by the city council which said the equipment couldn't remain but now the appeals board has backed its refusal.Vodafone wanted to keep the mobile phone antennae, 3 dishes and cabling on the chimney of number one High Street.The building is at the corner of High Street and Cross Street and the equipment formed part of Vodafone's GSM band 3G broadband telecommunications network.