{"id":111919,"date":"2022-05-06T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111919"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:50:39","slug":"bbc-bradford-wyke-5g-phone-mast-plan-refused-for-listed-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111919","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bradford: Wyke 5G phone mast plan refused for listed church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5G phone mast will not be allowed to be built on a 176-year-old Grade II-listed church in West Yorkshire due to concerns it could harm its appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The spire at St Mary&#8217;s The Virgin in Wyke, Bradford, already has antennae attached and Cellnex UK had applied for permission to upgrade the base station.<\/p>\n<p>But Bradford Council has rejected the application, saying it would &#8220;detract from the church&#8217;s architectural form&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The building, dating back to the 1840s, was a &#8220;landmark&#8221;, the council said.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cellnex&#8217;s planning application said 5G coverage in the area was &#8220;essential&#8221; and that any visual effect caused by a new mast would be outweighed by the benefits of 5G, Bradford Council&#8217;s conservation officer Jon Ackroyd disagreed, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-leeds-61337616\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bradford: Wyke 5G phone mast plan refused for listed church <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uCjYgX6zu8\">https:\/\/t.co\/uCjYgX6zu8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Yorkshire (@BBCLookNorth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCLookNorth\/status\/1522261060857876482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5G phone mast will not be allowed to be built on a 176-year-old Grade II-listed church in West Yorkshire due to concerns it could harm its appearance. The spire at St Mary&#8217;s The Virgin in Wyke, Bradford, already has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111919\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,389,149,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-church-of-england-coe","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111926,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111919\/revisions\/111926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}