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plan to relax planning restrictions on phone masts and overhead that was built through the protected landscape of Britain was described by activists as the greatest threat national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty, in over 50 years.

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should be allowed to give priority to the expansion of broadband and 4G in rural areas through the need to maintain expensive scenic splendor, when it comes to telecommunications networks sites. This measure contained in a bill to be debated in Parliament in the coming weeks, has been attacked as an attack against the laws which first gave national parks and scenic areas of their protected status under the Labour government of Clement Attlee in 1949.

is feared that the landscapes that inspired William Wordsworth Lake District are particularly at risk. Sir Andrew Motion, poet and former president of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, is understood to be involved in a lobbying campaign against private changes. The English National Park Association (ENPAA), on behalf of the organizations funded by the government stewards parks, including the Lake District, has expressed concern.

The government hopes that the elimination of the requirement of the Secretary of State to consider the beauty of the region will help promote the expansion of broadband and 4G and growth. However, a confidential document produced by the internal ENPAA, explaining the concerns raised by ministers, said he believes the change is "necessary in order to ensure the improvement of economic growth and infrastructure in parks national ".

The document warns ministers protest once the change is made public. He added: "We found no evidence that the purpose of the national park have hampered broadband delivery or mobile communications or the justification of a change than the established law and to reject the conclusion that national park status was an obstacle to the implementation of mobile technologies / broadband.

The association says it is in favor of broadband is growing in rural communities, but he wants masts and cables are placed discreetly regarding parks and grains beauty, including the use pylons well hidden among the trees. He also suggested that underground cables owned by BT should be used to save some of the most picturesque places of Britain.

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Communities and shadow local government, said the bill, which provides for restrictions relax for a period of five years, would create a "free- for-all "in which cables and masts to deface some of the most beautiful regions of the country. He said: "This situation could jeopardize a planning system which effectively balanced the protection of our national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty and unpleasant intrusive development while ensuring that high speed Internet can be deployed throughout the country, including the communities living in these areas.

"Eric Pickles is a medium that threatens to five years free for all in our national parks that are well liked by those who enjoy the green and pleasant land of England."

Sarah Wright of Mast Sanity, a campaign group, said she was also concerned about the impact on the health of wildlife in parks and beauty spots.

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