Plans for mast in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park sparks opposition

A telecom mast to link financial traders in London and Ireland would be "hugely damaging" to a national park landscape, campaigners have claimed.

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The developer said Preseli Hills is the ideal location for an urgently needed 51m (167ft) microwave tower.

But protesters said it would spoil views of privately owned Pantmaenog Forest near Rosebush, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.

Maenclochog community council is also formally objecting the plan.

Preseli Hills have been "a sacred landscape for thousands of years," said Jess Wallace, an artist from Glandwr.

"Seventy-five years ago, the local residents fought off the MoD [Ministry of Defence], who wanted to appropriate this landscape," she said.

"My concern is the incursion of any development on what is a pristine landscape."

Pantmaenog Forest has public footpaths and is within the Preseli Landscape of Outstanding Historic Interest.

"It is a sacred landscape and I think it sets a really dangerous precedent if this is allowed to go ahead," she added.

The new mast would provide a microwave link between data centres in London and Wexford, Ireland, related to financial trading.

The Dutch data network firm behind the plan, Wholesailor, said in a letter to Pembrokeshire Coast National Park it "urgently needed planning granted."

Pantmaenog Forest is the "optimum location", it added, explaining the TV mast at nearby Foel Dyrch cannot be used because it is at capacity.

The planning application said the galvanised steel lattice tower would reach a height of 430m (1,1410ft) above sea level on a hill above Rosebush.