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Certificate of Lawfulness Application Trinity Church Spire FOR Sure (IOM) Ltd
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Sure Site 52 Trinity Church Rosemount Douglas, IOM
Application Supporting Statement
DATE: 26 July 2022
PREPARED BY:
Steven Allan Sure IOM Ltd
Sure IOM REF: Site 52 Trinity Church
In 2006/7 Sure Isle of Man Limited (Sure) was awarded an Isle of Man (IOM) Mobile Operators Licence, issued by the island's Communications Commission, to provide a mobile phone network and services to the island's inhabitants and visitors. This service competes with the incumbent operator (Manx Telecom) and allows greater choice and competition for consumers and businesses.
The mobile phone network consists of a number of sites that house various pieces of equipment to provide coverage in the vicinity, such as panel antennae, and also transmission dishes that link sites together. Combined with other sites they are designed to provide an extensive, continuous network.
Sure will endeavour, whenever possible, to install its equipment on existing infrastructure or radio transmitters. The aim is always to minimise the visual impact of providing mobile phone network infrastructure.
The mobile service around the Trinity church / Woodbourne Lane area is currently served by a temporary trailer mast which was installed in 2019 following increased demands from customer and to ensure sufficient coverage for Critical Services such as 999 calls.
Our recent planning application (ref 20/01538/B) to replace this temporary structure was refused on appeal in 2021. This application provides an alternative approach utilising an existing structure that does not need to be changed externally whilst also providing the extra benefit to the landlord of additional income to assist with the building's maintenance.
Our proposal is to install internal mesh sheeting, Internal Steel bracing and Telecommunications equipment inside the Spire of Trinity Church. The mesh sheeting to be installed Inside the window enclosures of the Spire. Please see photo page 5.
This proposal will not alter the building or its external appearance. All work and installation would be internal to the structure. In addition, our equipment inside the building will be obscured by the installation of internal curtains, inside the windows, behind which our equipment would reside.
Following review by a structural engineer it is anticipated that the internal steel bracing will be subject to building control and therefore a separate building control application will be submitted.
Trinity Methodist Church, Rosemount, Douglas (see enclosed site location Plan). Installation internally in Church Spire.
A sample of the proposed mesh has been attached to this application. This will be installed internally and act as a partial screen to the antenna and steel work. It will also prevent birds roosting in the spire as their guano can cause a Health and Safety risk to engineers working on the equipment.
Kathrien 80010698 installed in window embrasures. Painted Mat Black to match background up to 8 installed. Data sheet enclosed. Antenna will be installed in the spire windows facing North $0^{\circ}, 45^{\circ}$, $270^{\circ}$ and $315^{\circ}$. The number of antenna, 8 , is to take in to account future development of Mobile phone Technology in the next 2 or 3 years, it is anticipated that 4 antenna will be required immediately.
Huawei RRU These may be mounted behind the antenna or below window hight, 4 RRU per antenna will be required one for each operational frequency band. Please see appendix A for dimensions.
This will consist of 2 cabinets, Huawei 3900 or Wall mounted OMB. These will be mounted inside the midlevel of the spire.
Internal Steel bracing will be installed at approximately 12.5 m internally in the mid-section of the Spire. A steel column will rise to approximately 21 m internally, this will support the antenna installed in the windows. Please see enclosed Structural engineers' drawings (Structural Details for Telecommunications Equipment).
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