Ongoing fears over St Albans phone masts
11:26 - 06 March 2009
CONCERNED residents turned out for a council cabinet meeting this week to reiterate concerns about telecom masts in their area.
Residents of Gurney Court Road, St Albans, and surrounding streets are worried about the impact of an imminent planning application from O2 to install nine microcells in their area.
And their councillor Salih Gaygusuz accused the cabinet of appearing to have done nothing to resolve their efforts to persuade Herts County Council to take a more robust approach to the siting of telecoms masts and equipment in the district.
The cabinet is pressing the county to consider new guidelines for the positioning of masts on their land to give the district council more leverage at planning appeals.
Although county has a procedure in place for considering requests to put telecoms equipment on its land, it does not set out any specific criteria on which applications would be rejected.
That is in contrast to other authorities, such as Milton Keynes, which has a policy that it will not normally permit equipment on its land within 50 metres of residential properties, nurseries, playgroups, school grounds or medical facilities.
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CONCERNED residents turned out for a council cabinet meeting this week to reiterate concerns about telecom masts in their area.
Residents of Gurney Court Road, St Albans, and surrounding streets are worried about the impact of an imminent planning application from O2 to install nine microcells in their area.
And their councillor Salih Gaygusuz accused the cabinet of appearing to have done nothing to resolve their efforts to persuade Herts County Council to take a more robust approach to the siting of telecoms masts and equipment in the district.
The cabinet is pressing the county to consider new guidelines for the positioning of masts on their land to give the district council more leverage at planning appeals.
Although county has a procedure in place for considering requests to put telecoms equipment on its land, it does not set out any specific criteria on which applications would be rejected.
That is in contrast to other authorities, such as Milton Keynes, which has a policy that it will not normally permit equipment on its land within 50 metres of residential properties, nurseries, playgroups, school grounds or medical facilities.
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http://tinyurl.com/b95jou
rudkla - 6. Mär, 15:11
