A MOVE has been made to build a new 5G tower to boost phone signal for St John’s.

The 16-metre 5G tower would be built on the corner of Bransford Road and Malvern Road in front of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School in St John’s, Worcester.

Cignal Infrastructure UK ruled out a number of other locations in St John’s to place the 5G tower.

These included Cripplegate Park, the roof of the former Co-op supermarket and its car park and next to the former Lloyd’s Bank.

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The telecommunications firm also ruled out potential locations such as the Europcar garage in Bromwich Road and playing fields near to Swanpool Walk.

A statement from Cignal infrastructure said: “The existing sites in this area of Worcester are struggling to cope with demand and an increase in capacity is required; therefore a new site is required to provide reliable, high-quality 3G, 4G and 5G technology.

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“The new site needs to be sited in a place where it will work alongside the existing sites in the area to provide the necessary capacity in the network, which will ensure that reliable network coverage is provided.”

Worcester Civic Society said the 5G tower but be better placed on a rooftop and suggested nearby high-rise Cripplegate House as a better location.

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Worcester City Council has already turned down a number of applications for 5G towers in recent months including in Warndon and St Peter’s.

Planners rejected a separate move by then-named CK Hutchinson to install a 15-metre 5G pole in Wainwright Avenue in Warndon saying it would be “visually obtrusive.”

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The planning application was submitted just a fortnight after a move to install a 5G tower less than a mile away on the corner of Windermere Drive and Keswick Drive.

The council said building the tall pole in an “extremely prominent location” in front of several houses would be “unsightly” for people and “clutter” the residential streets.

Another plan by CK Hutchinson asking for permission to build an 18-metre 5G tower in front of St Peter’s Baptist Church in Worcester drew criticism from churchgoers who said the ‘eyesore’ structure would spoil views of one of the estate’s “most architecturally significant buildings” and was also rejected by the council.