Yeah I apologize I misunderstood what you were referring to, since there had been a different icon issue which was previously resolved.
To remove the loading icon I did the following:
Used rereplacer to add an id="locations" to the body tag. (I was unable to target the classes so I went with ID)
I targeted the loading icon on just this page with css and just removed it.
body#locations div.ui-loader {
display: none;
}
It doesn't seem to affect the functionality otherwise. (Mobile Joomla drives me crazy, I prefer responsive builds!)
Thanks for all your help