'Our voices don't count over mast' say Kingsthorpe campaigners
Published Date: 12 December 2008
Campaigners who fought to stop a fourth mobile phone mast being installed near their Northampton homes say their voices simply do not count after O2 won the battle.
The bid to put up the 12.5m monopole on land adjacent to Welford Road, Kingsthorpe, was originally turned down by Northampton Borough Council in June.
But O2 appealed and an independent planning inspectorate in Bristol overturned the decision.
Irene Rose, aged 76, of Larwood Close, off Welford Road, spearheaded the campaign and helped present a 65-signature petition to the borough council. She said: "I feel the general public don't count; our opinions on all sorts of things are just brushed aside.
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http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/39Our-voices-don39t-count-.4787052.jp
Campaigners who fought to stop a fourth mobile phone mast being installed near their Northampton homes say their voices simply do not count after O2 won the battle.
The bid to put up the 12.5m monopole on land adjacent to Welford Road, Kingsthorpe, was originally turned down by Northampton Borough Council in June.
But O2 appealed and an independent planning inspectorate in Bristol overturned the decision.
Irene Rose, aged 76, of Larwood Close, off Welford Road, spearheaded the campaign and helped present a 65-signature petition to the borough council. She said: "I feel the general public don't count; our opinions on all sorts of things are just brushed aside.
Read More...
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/39Our-voices-don39t-count-.4787052.jp
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