WHY SHOULD LOCAL RESIDENTS HAVE TO ACCEPT PHONE MAST?

I met a group of concerned residents at The Albany in Woodcote Road with my colleague Councillor Jayne McCoy recently to discuss their concerns about plans for a mobile phone mast on their building.

Not surprisingly, they are worriee about the long-term health risks associated with masts, for which I accept there is inconclusive research to date – but they don’t want it!

Jayne and I are really sympathetic to the residents concerns, but we feel frustrated by the Government’s planning regulations that strongly favour those who want to erect mobile masts. The fact that the owners of the building are imposing the mast upon the residents is pretty awful – especially considering that they stand to make a lot of money out of it, but won’t have to suffer the consequences.

Then about a week ago, I thought we were getting somewhere when I got a call from a vry nice man from Ericssons. He wanted to know what I would like him to do. “Tell H3G not to install the mast I told him.” He promised to do so – but I haven’t heard anything since.