Inspector calls at mast site
Feb 17 2006
icSolihull
HUNDREDS of protesters are expected to turn out when a Government inspector visits Solihull to view the site of a planned mobile phone mast.
T-Mobile's application for a mast nearly 15 metres high, on the corner of Streetsbrook Road and Woodlea Drive, was turned down on environmental grounds by Solihull Council last October, but the company appealed against the decision.
Residents have been fighting the plan since it was announced last July and more than 1,000 of them have either sent letters of objection or signed a petition opposing the 3G mast.
Greg Shakeshaft, of Streetsbrook Road, who is leading the residents' campaign, said: "We don't need the mast and we don't want it. The mast would be totally out of character with the area.
"The nearest house is less than 30 yards away and we think Oak Cottage Primary School in Greswolde Road would be within the radiation field of the mast.
"If the mast is erected it will be a blight on our neighbourhood."
Mr Shakeshaft, two of whose three children attend Oak Cottage School, added that the Streetsbrook Road proposal was only one of more than 200 new mobile phone masts planned for Solihull by 2007.
icSolihull
HUNDREDS of protesters are expected to turn out when a Government inspector visits Solihull to view the site of a planned mobile phone mast.
T-Mobile's application for a mast nearly 15 metres high, on the corner of Streetsbrook Road and Woodlea Drive, was turned down on environmental grounds by Solihull Council last October, but the company appealed against the decision.
Residents have been fighting the plan since it was announced last July and more than 1,000 of them have either sent letters of objection or signed a petition opposing the 3G mast.
Greg Shakeshaft, of Streetsbrook Road, who is leading the residents' campaign, said: "We don't need the mast and we don't want it. The mast would be totally out of character with the area.
"The nearest house is less than 30 yards away and we think Oak Cottage Primary School in Greswolde Road would be within the radiation field of the mast.
"If the mast is erected it will be a blight on our neighbourhood."
Mr Shakeshaft, two of whose three children attend Oak Cottage School, added that the Streetsbrook Road proposal was only one of more than 200 new mobile phone masts planned for Solihull by 2007.
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