A MOBILE phone company has re-submitted a plan to build a mast in Flackwell Heath despite a public uproar over a previous application.

One2One submitted a planning application to build a telephone mast on the water tower in Tower Close, in Flackwell Heath, last year.

Dozens of residents protested against the proposal but the company's application was allowed on a legal technicality after a blunder by Wycombe District Council, when council officers failed to tell One2One that their application had been rejected.

The mobile phone giants later agreed not to build a mast on the water tower, if the district council could help them find an alternative, more acceptable, site.

Now the company has submitted an application to build a 30-metre mast and a radio equipment cabin on the sports ground of Green Dragon Lane, Flackwell Heath.

District councillor Julia Langley, Flackwell Heath (Con), said: "I have not had any objections to this one, as I did when it was to be sited on the water tower.

"I have not received one call or letter.

"This site, I think, has been better researched than the last one."

District Councillor John Savage (Flackwell Heath, Con) supported Cllr Langley's comments.

"So far I have not had a comment from anybody," he said.

"The relevance of that is that when the residents wrote to me about the water tower site I had over 40 letters from them.

"My feeling is that the site is better chosen and the important part is that One2One will not use the water tower now."

A spokesman for One2One said: "An application has been submitted for this site [at Green Dragon Lane].

"We do understand that putting our base stations in communities can give rise to concern and we are keen to address these concerns.

"Our approach to this is is that we'd rather work with communities and come up with solutions that are acceptable to everyone.

"This was a good example of that."