Residents celebrate phone-mast victory
10:54 - 09 April 2008
VIGILANT residents are celebrating after winning the first local victory against a phone mast firm.
Their diligence paid off when it came to persuading the planning inspector to dismiss the Orange phone company's appeal for an eight-foot mast in Gurney Court Road at its junction with Sandpit Lane in St Albans.
The residents had used the fact that the Y-junction was an accident blackspot and was used by the police for mobile speed cameras and a hard-standing had been put there for that purpose.
Campaigner Richard Morgan of Gurney Court Road said: "Once we informed the police of the mast plan they wrote to the inspector objecting on the grounds that a mast and its cabinet would obscure the sightlines they needed for their cameras.
"This was what won the day for us but unfortunately Orange won't go away. They are likely to come back and try again close by."
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VIGILANT residents are celebrating after winning the first local victory against a phone mast firm.
Their diligence paid off when it came to persuading the planning inspector to dismiss the Orange phone company's appeal for an eight-foot mast in Gurney Court Road at its junction with Sandpit Lane in St Albans.
The residents had used the fact that the Y-junction was an accident blackspot and was used by the police for mobile speed cameras and a hard-standing had been put there for that purpose.
Campaigner Richard Morgan of Gurney Court Road said: "Once we informed the police of the mast plan they wrote to the inspector objecting on the grounds that a mast and its cabinet would obscure the sightlines they needed for their cameras.
"This was what won the day for us but unfortunately Orange won't go away. They are likely to come back and try again close by."
Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/5t4ls9
rudkla - 9. Apr, 12:44
