A Tromode company says it wasn’t told it needed planning permission to install next-generation communications equipment.

Duke Marketing has now applied retrospectively for permission to put up the 4G mast at its headquarters Champion House on Ballafletcher Road in Cronkbourne.

The mast is from Bluewave Communications, the company owned by former Apprentice star Stuart Baggs, and in a letter to the planning committee Neil Cushing says Duke wasn’t told it needed to make a planning application.

The transmitter was installed in 2012, but Mr Cushing says it’s only been used during TT 2013.

You can find out more about the application, and have your say on it, on the government’s website gov.im