PROPOSALS to install a 10m mobile phone mast have received a setback.

Vodaphone wants to build a mast with three antennas in a residential area opposite The Pied Piper pub, in Orchard Way, Ormesby.

The company said it wanted to expand its 3G digital mobile telephone network in the area but a petition with 354 names was submitted to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, opposing the application.

Residents have been backed by Ormesby councillors Irene and Glyn Nightingale.

They say it would be visually obtrusive and believe it would be too close to the main road and residential properties.

The councillors also complained that only six households had been notified of the proposal and that a notice to inform the public, which had been wrapped around a road sign, was difficult to read.

The council's planning committee deferred a decision at a meeting this week.

Committee chairman Councillor Peter Spencer said: "We feel that in such a prominent position, the mast will have a detrimental effect.

"We are sending the application to the applicant and asking them to find a better site."