Companies respond to Harrow Council phone mast blunder
1:54pm Wednesday 25th March 2009
By Tristan Kirk
THE two mobile phone giants who have permission for new masts after council blunders are reviewing their options.
Harrow Council made a double gaffe when failing to tell Orange and Vodafone that their applications for the masts had been turned down.
The officers missed a 56-day deadline for informing applicants, meaning permission was granted by default, to the fury and dismay of residents living close to the two sites.
As a result, Vodafone can erect a 12.4m high phone mast in St Thomas Drive, Hatch End, and Orange have the right to put up an 11.5m high mast on a small patch of grass at the junction of Rayners Lane and Grove Road.
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http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/4233157.Orange_and_Vodafone__considering__phone_mast_sites/
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Council delays cause second phone mast blunder
South Wales Evening Post - Swansea, Wales, UK
DELAYS and mistakes by Swansea Council have led to a second mobile phone mast being allowed to stay in place despite it not having planning permission, ...
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Council-delays-cause-second-phone-mast-blunder/article-844526-detail/article.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone+mast+blunder
By Tristan Kirk
THE two mobile phone giants who have permission for new masts after council blunders are reviewing their options.
Harrow Council made a double gaffe when failing to tell Orange and Vodafone that their applications for the masts had been turned down.
The officers missed a 56-day deadline for informing applicants, meaning permission was granted by default, to the fury and dismay of residents living close to the two sites.
As a result, Vodafone can erect a 12.4m high phone mast in St Thomas Drive, Hatch End, and Orange have the right to put up an 11.5m high mast on a small patch of grass at the junction of Rayners Lane and Grove Road.
Read More...
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/4233157.Orange_and_Vodafone__considering__phone_mast_sites/
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Council delays cause second phone mast blunder
South Wales Evening Post - Swansea, Wales, UK
DELAYS and mistakes by Swansea Council have led to a second mobile phone mast being allowed to stay in place despite it not having planning permission, ...
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Council-delays-cause-second-phone-mast-blunder/article-844526-detail/article.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone+mast+blunder
rudkla - 25. Mär, 17:33
