A PLAN for a 15-metre mobile phone mast near Knightwick has been refused permission.

One 2 One Personal Communications wanted to put the mast on land at Collins Green, an Area of Great Landscape Value and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The Parish Council objected to the scheme, both on landscape grounds and because of worries about access on to the site from the B4917.

And a number of local residents also voiced their objections, backed up by MP Sir Michael Spicer.

Members of Malvern Hills District Council's northern area planning committee this week refused planning permission.