Vodaphone put up the temporary mast within 400 yards of Claines Primary school last Friday.

The move came just two weeks after local residents successfully stopped the mast being erected in a field on Cornmeadow Lane after a six-day vigil.

Wychavon District Council said it was not told of the company's new plans and has ordered the mast to be taken down.

'Serve notice'

The council's planning enforcement officer Graeme Duerdon told BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester: "We at the council cannot condone people Vodaphone running roughshod over the planning system.

"It's there for a purpose to protect everybody and that includes local residents. Without going through that due process it doesn't give much consideration to them."

He added: "It's our intention to serve notice to require the removal of the mast."

Vodaphone had agreed to move the mast 400m further away from homes after the residents' protest near the Cornmeadow Lane site.

At the time, the company failed to get prior approval for the site from Worcester City Council.

It later agreed to move the site to a shared mobile phone mast area under Wychavon District Council.

The temporary mast is now situated a few hundred yards away from the original proposed location.