The City Council’s latest list of planning matters includes two. The first is a minor application for an extension to the first floor of 4A Gardiner Street (application number: 10/02867/FUL DEL). The second issue returns to a subject that some of you will recall has, in the past, been controversial: that is the telephone mast at Rock Edge, with a new submission by Vodafone, planning to replace the present mast with one 3 metres higher (10/02945/T56 DEL). If you know about the history of this, you will also remember that planning law gives very limited powers to the City Council: the Council can not simply accept or reject the issue; it has, instead, ‘to determine whether prior approval is required for siting and appearance of 15m high telecommunications mast’. This one is intended to be decided by officers under their delegated powers.