Subject: Protesters' victory in phone mast campaign (Segerback)..
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 111515 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:36:06 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Per Segerbäck"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Protesters' victory in phone mast campaign
Roy,
Here is the full story from www.telegraph-co.uk from Mars 14:
ISSUE 1754
Tuesday 14 March 2000
Protesters' victory in phone mast
campaign
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
National
Radiological
Protection
Board
Special
investigation:
mobile phones -
New Scientist
Mobile phone
safety issues -
Federation of
the Electronics
Industry
THOUSANDS of mobile phone masts may have to be taken
down after a landmark decision by a Government
planning inspector.
Protesters worried by the erection of phone masts
close to their homes, offices and schools are now
measuring them carefully after Vodafone was ordered
to remove a mast that breached height regulations.
The mast was erected within yards of the home of
Neil Clarkson, of Leeds, who has since developed a
brain tumour.
It was put up under an exemption in planning rules
that says the mobile phone companies do not need to
apply for full planning permission if the mast is
under 15 metres, or 49ft, tall. An inspector from
the Department of the Environment, Transport and
the Regions ruled that this must include the
concrete base on which a mast is erected and the
antenna on top, which took the Vodafone mast to
16.23 metres, or 53ft.
The inspector, Martin Joyce, dismissed Vodafone's
appeal against an enforcement notice. He said the
mast "materially harms living conditions". Vodafone
was given six weeks to remove the mast or lodge an
appeal in the High Court.
Meanwhile, in what protesters believe could be the
start of thousands of follow-up cases, residents of
Manningtree in Essex are calling on Tendring
district council to remove a mast erected by
One2One within one metre of a conservation area and
close to homes and a school.
They believe that the mast, built on concrete three
weeks ago, exceeds 15 metres. The Mill Hill site is
owned by Tendring Hundred Water Company, within 20
yards of homes, and on a route used each day by
many of the 370 pupils of Highfields Primary
School, Lawford.
No definite health risks have yet been proved to
exist from mobile phones or masts but, as a
precaution, county councils have recommended that
masts are not sited on land owned by schools.
Hilary Cook, headmistress of Highfields Primary
School, said: "The way this mast went up was
shabby. It has really shaken people round here."
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