New Northumberland Telecommunications Mast

Plans for a new telecommunications mast to provide broadband services in a remote part of the Coquet Valley have been submitted to a local council.

03:33 28 June 2021

The Home Office has recently submitted an application for a 25m tall lattice mast at Ladyship Field in Sharperton. 

 

Application documents state: ‘The emergency services currently use a mobile radio system (Airwave) to communicate but this needs replacement as the technology cannot deliver broadband data services.

 

‘This proposal, as a component of the emergency services network… is to provide additional infrastructure into primarily remote and commercially unviable areas where little or no mobile network coverage exists.’

 

The proposals were welcomed by local county councillor Steven Bridgett. He said: “The mast not only represents a key piece of national infrastructure that will crucially, deliver the new emergency service signal to this area of Coquetdale but will also deliver a 4G mobile signal to Harbottle, Holystone, Sharperton, Dueshill, Plainfield, Warton, Flotterton, Westfield, Whittle, Trewhitt and Burradon. But also parts of Snitter, Thropton, Cartington, Hepple and Netherton.

 

“This is a start but we need further developments such as this if we are to ensure that a decent mobile signal can be received by not just local residents but also the many visitors that come to our beautiful but remote part of the world.”