St Augustine’s Kilburn has got the go-ahead from a consistory court to have mobile phone masts installed.

The Chancellor of the Diocese of London Michael Seed QC described opposition towards the plans as “ludicrous and ill-informed”.

He noted that the church had very limited income with which to maintain a Grade I listed building.

“There was nothing to distinguish this application from 11 others I have granted over the last two years, two of them in the City of Westminster, where the City Council had raised no objections or queries,” he concluded.