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Frustrated residents are considering launching a legal challenge against Vodafone in a bid to stop the communications giant building a phone mast near a primary school, Yourmedway reports.

The threat of court action was made by campaigner Mike Evans, one of a group of parents outraged that the 3G mast could be erected just 100ft away from St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Gillingham.

The determined parents are supported by members of the three main political parties – with all three Liberal Democrat Gillingham North ward councillors, the Labour MP for Gillingham and Rainham Paul Clark and the Conservative-run council voicing their opposition to the mast.

Council chiefs twice rejected Vodafone’s planning application but were overruled by the Planning Inspectorate earlier this year.

Work began on installing the mast last week.

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MP joins fight to block Vodafone plan

Published Date: 07 April 2009

By Helen Lambourne

HOUSEHOLDERS on Mansfield's Ladybrook estate have vowed to fight controversial plans for a mobile phone mast in the area –– saying it could have a serious impact on their health.

Industry giant Vodafone wants to put the 8m-high mast next to a playing field at the end of Ladybrook Lane, near Rosemary Street, but the plans have sparked outrage among folk.

They say the planned site is too close to houses, schools and the playing field and have launched petitions to stop the scheme –– while Mansfield MP Alan Meale has backed their campaign.

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12:00pm Tuesday 7th April 2009

CAMPAIGNERS against plans for a new mobile phone mast near their homes have won their fight.

At a meeting of Thurrock Council’s Planning Committee on Thursday April 3 the plans, which were submitted by Telefonica O2 UK Limited, were unanimously rejected.

The plans were for a 12.5 meter high mast and equipment cabinet located within a highway verge in Lodge Lane know locally as The Spinney.

Residents living around The Spinney, an area of open space, have previously made their feelings clear by making placards and demonstrating.

They also handed Grays Thurrock councillor, Peter Harris, a petition signed by more than 200 people.

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http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/4270533.Mast_victory_for_campaigners/

10:56am Tuesday 7th April 2009

By James Nadal

COMMUNICATIONS giant Orange will carry out further investigations as a search continues for an alternative site for the controversial Foxes Piece mast.

In October 2008 the mobile phone company was granted permission to build an antenna at the junction of Little Marlow Road and Foxes Piece - close to the Marlow primary school - after Wycombe District Council failed to "explicitly refuse their application" in the 56 day period.

Residents, particularly concerned over possible health hazards for schoolchildren, wrote to the council to object in their hundreds when the application was put in.

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http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/4272703.Further_investigations_for_alternative_Marlow_mast_site/



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10:36am Tuesday 7th April 2009

By Manisha Mistry

RESIDENTS are celebrating a victory after a planning committee unanimously voted against plans to build a mobile phone mast in a residential area of Marshalswick.

Orange applied for permission to erect an eight metre high pole to replace an existing lamp post, and to build an equipment box on the land.

The proposals, which were considered for prior approval last night at the central planning committee meeting, would have been sited on a triangular piece of green land on the corner of Gurney Court Road and Sandpit Lane.

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http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4272572.Phone_mast_campaign_victory/

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Marshalswick still preferred site for a Orange phone mast

St Albans & Harpenden Review - St Albans, UK

By Manisha Mistry » MOBILE phone operator Orange has told the Review it intends on appealing against St Albans District Council's decision to reject its...

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4273325.Orange_to_press_ahead_with_Gurney_Court_Road_plans/

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Campaigners have won phone mast 'battle'

St Albans & Harpenden Review - St Albans, UK

Mobile phone operator Orange, was hoping its application to St Albans District Council, to erect a mast on the corner of Gurney Court Road and Sandpit Lane, ...

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Last updated 11:52, Monday, 06 April 2009

A PROPOSAL by a mobile phone company to erect a telecommunications pole on a scenic Lake District road has been rejected by planners.

Orange wanted to erect the pole on the verge of the road leading up to Kirkstone Pass.

The company applied to site a 12m pole with antenna, dish and equipment cabinets, in a gap in the existing verge along the A592 at Browhead near St Anne’s School.

They said this would allow a line of sight to other telecom installations in the area, including one at Wray Castle on the western shore of Windermere.

The application follows the proposed decommissioning of an existing installation on the roof of Elleray School, part of the St Anne’s School complex.

Head of development management David McGowan told the development control committee the school no longer wanted to host an antenna because of health considerations. The new mast would replace part of the coverage lost.

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Monday, April 06, 2009, 09:09

PROTESTERS turned out in force to demonstrate about the siting of a mobile phone mast within their Torquay community.

Vodafone is appealing against a Torbay Council refusal of planning permission for the site of the mast in Hawkins Avenue, Chelston.

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