A mobile phone company has offered to disguise their proposed new Falmouth mast as a telegraph pole.

Telecommunication company T Mobile UK contacted the council to look into applying for planning permission to put a 12-metre mast at Castle Drive.

However, despite their offer of making the mast resemble the telegraph pole already there, members of Falmouth town council's planning committee still objected to the plan.

Councillor John Body said: "I would refuse it. I object to it full stop. If you agree with it because it looks like a telegraph pole then you'll have telegraph poles' going up everywhere."

Town mayor Roger Bonney added: "Do we really need anymore in that area?"

Councillor Mike Varney agreed: "We need justification why it should be here when there are so many just up the road at Ships and Castles."

Councillor Stephen Eva initially said he had no problem with the proposal because the mast would be nowhere near a school - "I'd rather this than 400 metres from a school" - but later agreed to object on the grounds that the area was one of the major viewing points in Falmouth.

Members agreed to object to the plan, due to the detrimental impact they felt the mast would have in the conservation area.