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Mar 31, 2009

A PLANNING inspector has been called to settle a row over an
application to build a phone mast on a Teesdale church.

O2’s plan to put an antenna on the tower of St Mary’s, in Barnard Castle, was rejected by Teesdale District Council last year after dozens of objections.

The communications company has now appealed against the
decision – a move that has again led to protests.

Jackie Groszmann, of Barnard Castle, said the church was ignoring the concerns of local people.

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9:52am Tuesday 31st March 2009

By Morwenna Blake

A MOBILE phone mast at Bemerton Folly has been given the go-ahead by a planning inspector.

Residents objected to plans for the mast, on land at Westwood Road, fearing it would attract youngsters on motorbikes and quadbikes and that it would encourage flytipping.

They also raised concerns the 24-metre high structure, on land designated a nature reserve in 2004, would be a magnet for vandals, who would attack it with air rifles and catapults and start fires there.

Planning officers recommended the Vodafone application be approved when it went before Salisbury District Council’s city area planning committee in October, but councillors turned it down, branding it ‘a monstrosity’.

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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4247811.Bemerton_phone_mast_gets_go_ahead/

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Upset over phone mast plans

11:50am Tuesday 31st March 2009

RESIDENTS of Wain-A-Long Road in Salisbury are upset about plans to put a mobile phone mast outside their homes.

Orange wants to put up the 38ft mast on the verge close to the St Mark’s roundabout.

It has already had applications turned down for sites in Campbell Road and Castle Hill and says a mast is essential to its network coverage of the north eastern part of the city.

But objectors to the plan have complained to council planners that it will be “a monstrosity” which will devalue their homes.

They also say it will be an eyesore for visitors travelling into the city.

Local councillors also have their doubts.

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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/4247853.Upset_over_phone_mast_plans/

By Jonny Fordham

March 30, 2009

Families are furious after a council blunder meant its ban on plans for a 10 metre phone mast arrived in the post at Vodafone one day too late under planning regulations.

The company has ploughed on with the project in Westdene Crescent in Caversham after Reading Borough Council failed to submit its refusal within the designated 56 days.

The letter, which council officials claim was posted in time, did not arrive until the 57th day, giving the mobile phone giant the green light for the controversial mast.

People living in the crescent believed they had successfully fought off the proposal when it was submitted in 2006, until paper plans for the positioning of the mast blew into Parveen Whitehead’s driveway last Monday when builders began work on the mast.

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http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2048113_anger_after_phone_mast_ban_turns_up_a_day_late

Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare, England, UK

CONTROVERSIAL plans to put a mobile phone mast in a busy shopping area could still go ahead. Vodafone has launched an appeal against North Somerset ...

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Fury as work begins on phone mast rejected by councillors

Stoke & Staffordshire - Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK

PHONE giant Vodafone has begun building a mobile phone mast in Cheadle – even though the plans have been thrown out. Vodafone says it has permission to ...

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Fury-work-begins-phone-mast-rejected-councillors/article-849208-detail/article.html

9:51am Thursday 26th March 2009

By Adrianne Maslen

WEST Dorset MP Oliver Letwin is backing worried Lyme residents in their fight to stop plans for a new mobile phone mast close to homes, businesses and a school.

The O2 transmitter is planned for a derelict piece of land on Lyme Regis Industrial Estate to improve network coverage in the area.

Nearby residents have launched a Fight the Mast campaign and sent a petition with 60 signatures to planning authority West Dorset District Council. MP Oliver Letwin has added his voice to the campaign and last week met with senior management at the district council, a meeting he said left him ‘quite optimistic about the outcome’.

Mr Letwin said: “Of course, this is all very difficult – because we all want to be able to use our mobile phones, and none of us wants a mobile mast anywhere near us. A careful balance, therefore, has to be struck.

“But it never fails to amaze me how much chutzpah the operators of these systems have.

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http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/4235996.West_Dorset_MP_backs_protest_against_Lyme_mast/

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 21:00

PARENTS have united against plans for a new mobile phone mast near a village primary school.

The application to replace the existing antennas at Forest Row Fire Station is being opposed by villagers concerned with alleged health risks associated with the structures.

But, according to the applicant - telecommunications giants T-Mobile and 3 UK Ltd - there are no proven dangers from the masts.

Dozens of parents and pupils of Forest Row Primary School gathered in the village on Monday to protest.

They were joined by Wealden District Councillor Vania Phitidis, who is wary of the restrictions in objecting to the plans.

"We are only really allowed to object on planning considerations and not on health considerations and I think that's unfair and unjust," she said. "We are between a rock and a hard place.

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http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/eastgrinstead/news/Parents-united-mast-plans/article-790601-detail/article.html



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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



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