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Neighbours wrote in several complaints about the proposal and the town’s council has agreed with them. They strongly suggested that the mobile provider should look at other possible locations for the massive new addition to the local landscape. Along with the mast on Lechlade Road, there would be a wraparound cabinet at base, three ancillary equipment cabinets and associated ancillary works. A council meeting at the Northview Community Centre was well attended by members of the public who were concerned about the proposed structure. Coun Keith Smith pointed out that it would sit next to a Grade 1-listed church of St Michael’s, a Grade 2-listed vicarage and a former police house which he argued was of historical interest despite not being listed.
TRAFFIC chaos worries and fears for child safety have pushed back plans for 250 new homes by a busy Highworth road. It is feared that Gladman’s outline proposal for the development on Shrivenham Road would add an unmanageable amount of extra vehicles to a street which is regularly congested with cars, coaches and HGVs. Concerned neighbour Norman Jeffery said during the last Swindon Borough Council planning committee meeting that parked cars make the road one-way near the Fox roundabout, it is jammed at drop-off and pick-up times for the two schools there, and a three-foot-wide pavement leaves little space for hundreds of pupils.