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Monday, October 13, 2008, 10:52
Officers from the authority have recommended the committee refuse permission for a retrospective planning application, and say it should be taken down within a month.
It will be down to elected councillors to decide whether to agree with their suggestions for the structure in Dexter Lane.
Owner Barry Robinson erected the 20 foot telephone tree – comprising of a steel girder with three real red telephone boxes in the air – in his stable in July, without planning permission.
The structure divided local opinion and invoked both praise and criticism from his neighbours.
Now it will be for councillors to decide its future.
In a report to the committee, planning officers at the borough council argue Mr Robinson needs to provide ‘very special circumstances’ for why the structure should remain, because it contravenes its local plan and is within the green belt area.
* For a full report of the decision see the Tamworth Herald, October 16, 2008, edition.
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