The Corporate Services chairman wants an independent body to look at the issues, partly because he does not believe ministers pay attention to scrutiny panels.
He is also proposing a six-month freeze on planning applications from telecoms companies, pending the outcome of the inquiry.
‘A public inquiry is one way to bring out the facts,’ said Deputy Ryan, ‘not to re-examine the competition issues but more to focus on the unintended disbenefits in health concerns and unknowns as well as the visual environmental effects of the proliferation of potentially up to 150 extra pieces of infrastructure sited in some of our most highly visible locations and in green zones.’ His proposition – to be debated on 21 November – comes after it was revealed at a public meeting last week that the Planning department find it difficult to refuse applications from telecoms companies since there was more than one operating in the Island.
