RED FLAG RAISED OVER PHONE MAST PLANS
Published Date: 23 December 2008
COUNCILLORS have run up a red flag over plans for a mobile phone mast on Banbridge's Old Newry Road.
Planners have approved the Vodafone UK proposal for a 12m high streetworks pole, three tri-sector shrouded antennae (1.9m high), dish and equipment cabinet on a grass verge some 100m north east of No.2 Thornwood.
But councillors have asked for the matter to be deferred for a month, insisting a better location should be sought.
The request came first from Councillor Junior McCrum at a recent meeting of the council's Public Services Liaison Committee.
The DUP councillor said one of two nearby fields had been zoned for a new Abercorn Primary School.
He didn't think it a good idea, he said, to have a mobile phone mast located so close to a school site.
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http://www.banbridgeleader.co.uk/news/RED-FLAG-RAISED-OVER-PHONE.4809647.jp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast
COUNCILLORS have run up a red flag over plans for a mobile phone mast on Banbridge's Old Newry Road.
Planners have approved the Vodafone UK proposal for a 12m high streetworks pole, three tri-sector shrouded antennae (1.9m high), dish and equipment cabinet on a grass verge some 100m north east of No.2 Thornwood.
But councillors have asked for the matter to be deferred for a month, insisting a better location should be sought.
The request came first from Councillor Junior McCrum at a recent meeting of the council's Public Services Liaison Committee.
The DUP councillor said one of two nearby fields had been zoned for a new Abercorn Primary School.
He didn't think it a good idea, he said, to have a mobile phone mast located so close to a school site.
Read More...
http://www.banbridgeleader.co.uk/news/RED-FLAG-RAISED-OVER-PHONE.4809647.jp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast
rudkla - 22. Dez, 11:52
