A NATIONAL pressure group based in Radcliffe has called on MPs to set the record straight over controversial mobile phone masts.

The Campaign for Planning Sanity (CfPS), whose chairman Chris Maile lives on Outwood Road, is seeking clarity on the legality of a loophole used across the country to bypass planning permission for mast installations.

Phone operators are looking to a legal procedure they argue allows installations to be erected as long as they are no higher than four metres.

But the CfPS has doubts about the legality of this.

Mr Maile said: "This process makes a mockery of the whole system. If these installations are allowed to go ahead without any consideration of the merits of the site then the public will lose confidence in the planning system. Not simply in relation to phone masts, but to other developments."

Pamela Chapman, the spokesman for Mast Sanity, a subgroup of CfPS, has now written to MPs to urge them to see that the issue is debated in the House of Commons.