Owner of 6 Rheast Bridson Rebuttal Statement

From: To: CO, Planning Appeals Subject: AP25/0035 Planning number 25/90395/b Rheast bridson Date: 11 November 2025 04:32:49

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Good morning, I write again to appeal the telegraph poles being erected at 6 Rheast Bridson. All of my previous concerns have not been addressed by Manx telecom. My main concerns are the wires going over my property onto my garage obstructing the use of my driveway for my high vehicle. I currently have a direct phone line from the junction box directly opposite my property under the road why can’t this viaduct be used to lay the fibre cable? The remainder of the estate and all surrounding properties in my street are currently serviced with underground fibre. Only 6 properties in this area of peel are discriminated against. The IOM government paid 10 million to MT as part of the national broadband plan to ensure infrastructure was extended into area that would not have been commercially viable for private investment. There are currently no telegraph poles in the culdesac, and erecting them on a pavement which is accesses by school children and the elderly (St Patrick’s court) not to mention the prams used to walk to the clothworkers school from the surrounding estates can not be beneficial to anyone. Again I ask, why were these 6 bungalows not fitted with fibre cable when numbers 7-11 were and why as taxpayers have we been excluded from the government roll out of underground fibre when as far as I can see there is no reason for the remaining 6 bungalows not to be included.

With regards to the visual impact that these 30ft poles, they are proposing 3 large poles to service 6 houses. The wires from these poles are going across the road several time. This is hideous! My view of the foley from my office at home will now have these wires obscuring my view. I ask who is responsible when we have our gales and they inevitably get blown down or the wires come down for any structural damage to my property of vehicles.

Regards

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