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rudkla - 28. Mai, 22:42
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rudkla - 28. Mai, 22:34
Samstag, 27. Mai 2006
Death knell for phone mast?
PETER WALSH
27 May 2006 10:33
Plans for new homes may finally signal the death knell for a controversial phone mast.
Families living near the 15 metre-high Vodafone mast in Fakenham Road, Taverham, have tried for years to have it removed.
Now, Broadland District Council, whose decision to refuse consent for the mast in 2003 was thwarted after a successful appeal by the telecoms company, has approved proposals for new flats on the site.
London-based Equity Holdings and Investments has obtained permission to remove a petrol station, replacement mast and another mast on the land in 321 Fakenham Road.
Work is expected to start later in the year to clear the site to make way for a development of 19 flats.
If everything goes to plan, that would end campaigners' anxiety about living so close to the mast.
“It's been a long road,” said Graham Barker, 67, of Lloyd Road. “After all the campaigning that went on for a long, long time, we just thought: 'Where else could we go without taking High Court action?' We were banging our heads against a brick wall. We were in a corner, but this came as a total and utter surprise - a very welcome one.”
But he said the champagne would stay on ice until after building work began.
“We will not celebrate, so to speak, until such time as we see the masts taken down, which I understand is supposed to be later this year,” he said.
The Evening News, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign, has fought against mobile phone masts being installed near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.
Vodafone said it did not know anything about the proposal for homes on the site.
A spokesman said: “We haven't been requested to relocate, and we will just have to see what develops.”
Last February, we reported how campaigners sent a letter to the Ombudsman, an independent watchdog, about the mast.
It came after a planning inspector upheld an appeal from the phone giant against Broadland council's decision in December, 2003 to refuse permission for a replacement mast.
But the Ombudsman, who can consider complaints alleging administrative fault on the part of Government departments, ruled there was no basis for further intervention.
The original mast was installed in the mid-1990s amid controversy. Its height meant planning consent was not needed at the time, although the district council was required to give prior approval.
The council approved it despite opposition from Taverham Parish Council.
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27 May 2006 10:33
Plans for new homes may finally signal the death knell for a controversial phone mast.
Families living near the 15 metre-high Vodafone mast in Fakenham Road, Taverham, have tried for years to have it removed.
Now, Broadland District Council, whose decision to refuse consent for the mast in 2003 was thwarted after a successful appeal by the telecoms company, has approved proposals for new flats on the site.
London-based Equity Holdings and Investments has obtained permission to remove a petrol station, replacement mast and another mast on the land in 321 Fakenham Road.
Work is expected to start later in the year to clear the site to make way for a development of 19 flats.
If everything goes to plan, that would end campaigners' anxiety about living so close to the mast.
“It's been a long road,” said Graham Barker, 67, of Lloyd Road. “After all the campaigning that went on for a long, long time, we just thought: 'Where else could we go without taking High Court action?' We were banging our heads against a brick wall. We were in a corner, but this came as a total and utter surprise - a very welcome one.”
But he said the champagne would stay on ice until after building work began.
“We will not celebrate, so to speak, until such time as we see the masts taken down, which I understand is supposed to be later this year,” he said.
The Evening News, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign, has fought against mobile phone masts being installed near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.
Vodafone said it did not know anything about the proposal for homes on the site.
A spokesman said: “We haven't been requested to relocate, and we will just have to see what develops.”
Last February, we reported how campaigners sent a letter to the Ombudsman, an independent watchdog, about the mast.
It came after a planning inspector upheld an appeal from the phone giant against Broadland council's decision in December, 2003 to refuse permission for a replacement mast.
But the Ombudsman, who can consider complaints alleging administrative fault on the part of Government departments, ruled there was no basis for further intervention.
The original mast was installed in the mid-1990s amid controversy. Its height meant planning consent was not needed at the time, although the district council was required to give prior approval.
The council approved it despite opposition from Taverham Parish Council.
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rudkla - 27. Mai, 22:38
Phone mast protest
26 May 2006
Staff, pupils and parents at Branfil In fant and Junior School protest over the planned phone mast.
PUPILS, parents and teachers of an Upminster infant and junior school have said "no" to plans by mobile phone giant O2 to erect a mast nearby.
The telecommunications company has applied to site a phone mast on the corner of Little Gaynes Lane and Gaynes Park Road only yards from Branfil Infant and Junior School.
The application is due to be heard by Havering Council before the end of the month and last week a protest was held by those opposed to the mast outside the school gates.
For more on this story see this week's Recorder.
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Staff, pupils and parents at Branfil In fant and Junior School protest over the planned phone mast.
PUPILS, parents and teachers of an Upminster infant and junior school have said "no" to plans by mobile phone giant O2 to erect a mast nearby.
The telecommunications company has applied to site a phone mast on the corner of Little Gaynes Lane and Gaynes Park Road only yards from Branfil Infant and Junior School.
The application is due to be heard by Havering Council before the end of the month and last week a protest was held by those opposed to the mast outside the school gates.
For more on this story see this week's Recorder.
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rudkla - 27. Mai, 13:29
Freitag, 26. Mai 2006
Power to the people
Front page of the Bootle Times, credit should go to the local community in Sefton/Netherton.
Eileen O'Connor
Power to the people
May 25 2006
By Paula Owens, Bootle Times
A BID for a 12.5-metre mobile phone mast in Netherton was scrapped in what residents are calling a victory for ' people power'.
Two double decker buses carried more than 120 residents to a planning meeting at Southport Town Hall on Wednesday night, where they were set to oppose the plan.
But at the last minute telecoms firm O2 withdrew its proposal for the mast which would have stood in St Oswald's Lane.
Resident Marie Salzano said: "Everyone was cheering and stamping their feet.
"The mast would have been just 180 metres away from a classroom of St Benedict's Primary School.
"We don't want our children exposed to this."
Her sister Eileen O'Connor, who is an anti-mobile phone mast campaigner and trustee for radiation research, said: "I'm thrilled, this just shows that if the whole community pulls together you can have success.
"It will send out a message to the whole industry that they all need to be aware that any application that comes into this area will be fought in this way."
Councillor Mark Dowd said: "This application wouldn't have been withdrawn without the efforts of people of Netherton. It's a victory for people power.
"Next time there's a similar application we'll do exactly the same."
When the sisters first heard about the proposal they started a petition and set up a public meeting.
Scientist Brian Edgerton gave a talk on what he sees as the health risks associated with mobile phone masts.
Mrs Salzano said: "About 300 people attended the meeting and they went away horrified. We ended up with hundreds of names on the petition."
A few days before the planning meeting, Mr Edgerton, using a radiation level- measuring machine, put it to O2 representatives that their firm already had sufficient coverage in the area.
However, an O2 spokeswoman said: "We need to improve our mobile phone coverage for the area and that's why we need a mobile phone mast so we'll be reviewing other options to try and find an alternative location."
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Eileen O'Connor
Power to the people
May 25 2006
By Paula Owens, Bootle Times
A BID for a 12.5-metre mobile phone mast in Netherton was scrapped in what residents are calling a victory for ' people power'.
Two double decker buses carried more than 120 residents to a planning meeting at Southport Town Hall on Wednesday night, where they were set to oppose the plan.
But at the last minute telecoms firm O2 withdrew its proposal for the mast which would have stood in St Oswald's Lane.
Resident Marie Salzano said: "Everyone was cheering and stamping their feet.
"The mast would have been just 180 metres away from a classroom of St Benedict's Primary School.
"We don't want our children exposed to this."
Her sister Eileen O'Connor, who is an anti-mobile phone mast campaigner and trustee for radiation research, said: "I'm thrilled, this just shows that if the whole community pulls together you can have success.
"It will send out a message to the whole industry that they all need to be aware that any application that comes into this area will be fought in this way."
Councillor Mark Dowd said: "This application wouldn't have been withdrawn without the efforts of people of Netherton. It's a victory for people power.
"Next time there's a similar application we'll do exactly the same."
When the sisters first heard about the proposal they started a petition and set up a public meeting.
Scientist Brian Edgerton gave a talk on what he sees as the health risks associated with mobile phone masts.
Mrs Salzano said: "About 300 people attended the meeting and they went away horrified. We ended up with hundreds of names on the petition."
A few days before the planning meeting, Mr Edgerton, using a radiation level- measuring machine, put it to O2 representatives that their firm already had sufficient coverage in the area.
However, an O2 spokeswoman said: "We need to improve our mobile phone coverage for the area and that's why we need a mobile phone mast so we'll be reviewing other options to try and find an alternative location."
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rudkla - 26. Mai, 18:35
Mast plan gets poor reception
A PEOPLE-POWER campaign against a phone mast in Kimberley has sent the mobile phone company packing in less than two weeks.
Phone operators 02 UK's latest bid to errect a base station behind a newsagent on High Spania became public knowledge on May 13.
Residents sprang into action and distributed 2,000 letters to homes within a 500 metre radius of the mast.
Yesterday the company formally withdrew their pre-planning application.
Resident Shelley Facey said: "We mounted a full campaign straight away. It would have been hideous.
"I know the mobile phone companies say there is no proven health reports but you know there will be. Health was a huge issue.
"It's just the way these mobile phone companies go about things - they sneakily put these stickers up that no one knows about."
Kimberley and Cossall councillor Richard Robinson said: "It's in a very heavily populated area with a lot of schoolchildren and it was very near an electricty pylon.
"It has caused an enormous stir in Kimberley over the last week. At the latest count I've had over 200 letters of objection, e-mails and phone calls relating to this matter.
"The residents wrote to MP Nick Palmer. They have done most of the work, the credit should go to them."
The landowner who was initially approached by 02 UK to use his land as a site for the mast, withdrew his permission after the weight of public opinion became apparent.
Now residents are braced for another round with the mobile firm.
Mrs Facey said: "A month ago 02 did try and get one at the top of Cliff Boulevard but they were overturned. Hardly anyone knew about it.
"There will be a website set up just to make everyone aware of the dangers of these base stations in residential areas.
"We're almost expecting another sign to go up."
02 UK said they were currently investigating whether they will apply for another mast in the area or if they can use an existing site to provide coverage.
26 May 2006
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Phone operators 02 UK's latest bid to errect a base station behind a newsagent on High Spania became public knowledge on May 13.
Residents sprang into action and distributed 2,000 letters to homes within a 500 metre radius of the mast.
Yesterday the company formally withdrew their pre-planning application.
Resident Shelley Facey said: "We mounted a full campaign straight away. It would have been hideous.
"I know the mobile phone companies say there is no proven health reports but you know there will be. Health was a huge issue.
"It's just the way these mobile phone companies go about things - they sneakily put these stickers up that no one knows about."
Kimberley and Cossall councillor Richard Robinson said: "It's in a very heavily populated area with a lot of schoolchildren and it was very near an electricty pylon.
"It has caused an enormous stir in Kimberley over the last week. At the latest count I've had over 200 letters of objection, e-mails and phone calls relating to this matter.
"The residents wrote to MP Nick Palmer. They have done most of the work, the credit should go to them."
The landowner who was initially approached by 02 UK to use his land as a site for the mast, withdrew his permission after the weight of public opinion became apparent.
Now residents are braced for another round with the mobile firm.
Mrs Facey said: "A month ago 02 did try and get one at the top of Cliff Boulevard but they were overturned. Hardly anyone knew about it.
"There will be a website set up just to make everyone aware of the dangers of these base stations in residential areas.
"We're almost expecting another sign to go up."
02 UK said they were currently investigating whether they will apply for another mast in the area or if they can use an existing site to provide coverage.
26 May 2006
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rudkla - 26. Mai, 18:22
Battle is on to block 'perverse' phone mast
By Colleen McDonnell
A mobile phone mast proposed for a site outside Hampton Community College has been called "insensitive and perverse" by a councillor who has just settled plans with a social housing group to improve the overall environment of the area.
The site for the planned O2 mobile phone mast at the junction of Dean Road and Rectory Grove would also be just a few feet from a block of flats and the site where local councillors are fighting to get a new post office.
If O2 gets permission to put up the mast outside the school, where next year students will walk by on their way through the schools' new entrance, Hampton North councillor Geoffrey Samuel said it would be totally incompatible with plans to improve the environment in that precise area. continued...
He said: "The proposal to site a mast a few feet from the students' entrance is insensitive and perverse. Hampton Community College is very worried and upset about it."
The application to erect the mast was submitted by O2 to Richmond upon Thames planning department two weeks ago.
Cllr Samuel said Richmond Council had new guidelines that required the phone company to show evidence that it had gone to all lengths to find alternative sights before selecting a site near a school or a residential area.
Cllr Samuel said: "There are plenty of alternative sites. I think they will fall at that fence."
He said the plans were submitted without first consulting the ward councillors for Hampton North. The mobile phone company only sent literature about the mast to councillors of Fulwell and Hampton Hill and contacted Hampton North councillors after planning application was submitted.
Richmond Council's planning department said a decision would be likely in July.
An objection to the mast has been submitted to the council and residents are putting together a petition to be submitted to Richmond Council at its next full meeting in June.
People who would like to object to the mast should write to Richmond Council's planning department.
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A mobile phone mast proposed for a site outside Hampton Community College has been called "insensitive and perverse" by a councillor who has just settled plans with a social housing group to improve the overall environment of the area.
The site for the planned O2 mobile phone mast at the junction of Dean Road and Rectory Grove would also be just a few feet from a block of flats and the site where local councillors are fighting to get a new post office.
If O2 gets permission to put up the mast outside the school, where next year students will walk by on their way through the schools' new entrance, Hampton North councillor Geoffrey Samuel said it would be totally incompatible with plans to improve the environment in that precise area. continued...
He said: "The proposal to site a mast a few feet from the students' entrance is insensitive and perverse. Hampton Community College is very worried and upset about it."
The application to erect the mast was submitted by O2 to Richmond upon Thames planning department two weeks ago.
Cllr Samuel said Richmond Council had new guidelines that required the phone company to show evidence that it had gone to all lengths to find alternative sights before selecting a site near a school or a residential area.
Cllr Samuel said: "There are plenty of alternative sites. I think they will fall at that fence."
He said the plans were submitted without first consulting the ward councillors for Hampton North. The mobile phone company only sent literature about the mast to councillors of Fulwell and Hampton Hill and contacted Hampton North councillors after planning application was submitted.
Richmond Council's planning department said a decision would be likely in July.
An objection to the mast has been submitted to the council and residents are putting together a petition to be submitted to Richmond Council at its next full meeting in June.
People who would like to object to the mast should write to Richmond Council's planning department.
10:50am today
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rudkla - 26. Mai, 18:19
Village anger over phone mast
Residents determined to stop it being connected to power
Julie Hemmings
VILLAGERS unhappy about a mobile telephone mast near their homes say they will do anything in their power to prevent it being switched on.
Phone company Orange installed a third-generation services mast on the edge of Sheriff Hutton after an administrative error by Ryedale Council.
The council was a day late in returning paperwork to the communications company which, under planning law, can assume it has consent to put up its mast.
The authority has been in negotiations since October trying to rectify the situation caused by its oversight, to try to agree an alternative location and any compensation payable to Orange for the change and disruption.
Residents assumed Orange would take no action in the meantime so were surprised when contractors appeared on Wednesday to dig a trench to connect it to the electricity supply.
The police were called to mediate as angry villagers went into a stand-off with the contractors, who eventually left without completing their work.
Villager Linda Murphy said it was only by chance that a resident saw the workmen and then rounded-up neighbours who were at home to make their protest.
"We're finding it very difficult to know what's going on," said Mrs Murphy.
"Orange had promised if anything was going to be done they would notify the parish council and Ryedale Council. We will do anything in our power to stop it being connected – we're quite prepared to park our cars to stop work being done. It's a very emotive issue."
Mrs Murphy who has two small children, said the potential health risks of a mast were the main concern to villagers, although they also were unhappy with the mast's appearance. It has been painted green but villagers say it is no less visible.
Ryedale's development control manager Gary Housden said the council had admitted the mistake but was frustrated with lack of progress in talks with Orange since.
In line with Government guidance, concerns over possible health risks from telecommunications masts are not grounds to reject a planning application and Mr Housden said local councils' powers over this type of structure were more restricted than people might think.
If masts are shorter than 45ft, as is the one Sheriff Hutton, the presumption is in favour of permission.
Mr Housden said the council did have concerns about the proposed location, as it is close to the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and talks were continuing to agree an alternative site.
Orange bosses met yesterday to discuss the mast.
Commenting on the protest on Wednesday, an Orange spokesman said: "After a meeting between residents, the local police, the local council and Orange's contractors it was agreed that Orange had legitimate rights to carry out the work but would not do the work that day, rather return at a later date to carry out the work.
"Orange is in negotiations with Ryedale District Council as to alternative locations for a mast and Orange will continue to work with the council to look at all suggested alternatives.
"It is also Orange's intention to carry on with its legitimate right to connect the existing mast at some point in the near future."
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26 May 2006
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Julie Hemmings
VILLAGERS unhappy about a mobile telephone mast near their homes say they will do anything in their power to prevent it being switched on.
Phone company Orange installed a third-generation services mast on the edge of Sheriff Hutton after an administrative error by Ryedale Council.
The council was a day late in returning paperwork to the communications company which, under planning law, can assume it has consent to put up its mast.
The authority has been in negotiations since October trying to rectify the situation caused by its oversight, to try to agree an alternative location and any compensation payable to Orange for the change and disruption.
Residents assumed Orange would take no action in the meantime so were surprised when contractors appeared on Wednesday to dig a trench to connect it to the electricity supply.
The police were called to mediate as angry villagers went into a stand-off with the contractors, who eventually left without completing their work.
Villager Linda Murphy said it was only by chance that a resident saw the workmen and then rounded-up neighbours who were at home to make their protest.
"We're finding it very difficult to know what's going on," said Mrs Murphy.
"Orange had promised if anything was going to be done they would notify the parish council and Ryedale Council. We will do anything in our power to stop it being connected – we're quite prepared to park our cars to stop work being done. It's a very emotive issue."
Mrs Murphy who has two small children, said the potential health risks of a mast were the main concern to villagers, although they also were unhappy with the mast's appearance. It has been painted green but villagers say it is no less visible.
Ryedale's development control manager Gary Housden said the council had admitted the mistake but was frustrated with lack of progress in talks with Orange since.
In line with Government guidance, concerns over possible health risks from telecommunications masts are not grounds to reject a planning application and Mr Housden said local councils' powers over this type of structure were more restricted than people might think.
If masts are shorter than 45ft, as is the one Sheriff Hutton, the presumption is in favour of permission.
Mr Housden said the council did have concerns about the proposed location, as it is close to the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and talks were continuing to agree an alternative site.
Orange bosses met yesterday to discuss the mast.
Commenting on the protest on Wednesday, an Orange spokesman said: "After a meeting between residents, the local police, the local council and Orange's contractors it was agreed that Orange had legitimate rights to carry out the work but would not do the work that day, rather return at a later date to carry out the work.
"Orange is in negotiations with Ryedale District Council as to alternative locations for a mast and Orange will continue to work with the council to look at all suggested alternatives.
"It is also Orange's intention to carry on with its legitimate right to connect the existing mast at some point in the near future."
julie.hemmings@ypn.co.uk
26 May 2006
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rudkla - 26. Mai, 12:45
