ANGRY Tytherington residents are bracing themselves for a second new phone mast near their homes in as many years.
Vodafone follow T-Mobile in planning a mobile phone "base station" on Manchester Road, a short distance from Marlborough primary and Tytherington high schools.
Families on nearby Bluebell Close say the location – 100 metres from the existing mast – is inappropriate. They have also called for the masts to be combined, if the council again fails to object, only to be told that the resulting mast would be too bulky and intrusive as it would require an additional antenna.
Ian Davies, 53, of Bluebell Close, said: "This one’s going to be 50 metres from my back door. I came back from a holiday in the sun last year to find a new mast near my house, and I got back this year to hear the same."
Neighbour Carolyn Griffiths, a retired teacher and mother-of-two, said: "We are in a tree preservation area and the council is trying to make the environment better around here, and then they are allowing all these poles."
Tytherington councillor James Nicholas said: "I sympathise with residents’ concerns but we all use mobile phones. This location isn’t perfect, but it is out of the way."
A Vodafone spokesman said: "There is a T-Mobile site about 100 metres away, but it would be too big and bulky to combine them. We require a new base station to improve the 3G coverage for our customers in the area. This site is well-suited as it offers a backdrop of trees and street furniture."
Any "exposure" from the mast would be hundreds if not thousands of times lower than latest international guidelines, he added. A council spokesman confirmed that planning permission was not needed.
"We are looking at the details at the moment and we can make suggestions about improvements and moving it if required," he said.
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mogangirl (03/09/2008 at 15:01)
Or my home there.
These things not only cause cancer, they devalue your home as well, nobody wants them near them at all and who could blame them?
MaccForum.co.uk (05/09/2008 at 02:42)
mogangirl (05/09/2008 at 13:49)
I have over the years read the news on clusters of cancer spots, of people living near to these masts.
There has been too many reports for me to ignore it.
There is no smoke without fire.
I could go into all this, bring up reports and post them on here, but then people will bring up other reports against the argument.As has been done in the press.So i just made my comment as i believe.I do have my own personal studies on it all, of which is how i came to believe they are dangerous.
Sometimes its enough to just comment on your own beliefs and personal observations, and leave it at that. Why not???
Everybody has to make there own mind up on them.
Pete 11 (05/09/2008 at 13:51)
I will let you ex pats fight it out then.
mogangirl (06/09/2008 at 00:54)
If you just type in .
phone masts cancer.
Up will come a lot of information from www. timesonline.com
Very interesting the reports of studies done, And the reports of cluster cancers in residential areas.
I believe it.
Tytherington Totty, Tytherington (08/09/2008 at 09:35)
At the end of the day it's an unknown. If the residents don't wish to live with a potential risk then they should band together and lobby the council about the matter, which I'm sure they are doing - I just hope the council listen this time.
The Satisfied Customer (08/09/2008 at 10:23)
mogangirl (08/09/2008 at 21:03)
From what i have heard the mobile companies do pay the landowner or authority, for the sites they place them on.
Or even the farmer come to that.
Whoever will take the money and provide the land, for them. Needs to be looked at, there are always two parties in this. The landowner and the mobile phone companies.
MaccForum.co.uk (09/09/2008 at 03:43)
There hasn't been a single scientific paper published that clearly shows a link between phone masts to cancer. Feel free to show otherwise.
Tytherington Totty, Tytherington (09/09/2008 at 09:18)
runkyd (09/09/2008 at 13:26)
Councils OK the planning as long as its not in/on their back yards!!!
Hatch (09/09/2008 at 16:12)
mogangirl (09/09/2008 at 17:44)
Youd have to find out THE POWER so to speak going through them, some are more powerfull than others.
Maybe those 7 were the more powerfull ones.???
Past history on the Asbestos problem shows you never can be too carefull.
And personaly myself if i had one near me, i would find out whos land it is on and accuse them of PROFITING, putting innocent lives in danger for the filthy lucre.
We all like money, but we all have not got consciences or thoughts for others on how we obtain that money.
If there is any doubt leave it out i say.
just depends on the kind of person you are.
It is an issue on the island i live on now as well. One is being put near a childrens school here, there are big marches over it. The people will win here without a doubt.
mogangirl (09/09/2008 at 21:45)
As with mobile phone masts (depends) on the power they are giving out.
The Satisfied Customer (09/09/2008 at 23:32)
runkyd (10/09/2008 at 10:21)
'PS, I also think electricity pylons have a lot to answer for as well. As with mobile phone masts (depends) on the power they are giving out.'
Quite agree, you only have to stand under the pylons on the top pitch at Macc Rugby Club to lierally hear the power going through them. My kids (7 & 9) wont stand under it they think its scary!!
Saying that MRUFC have got a phone mast poorly disguised as a tree too! Wonder how much they got for that???
MaccForum.co.uk (10/09/2008 at 20:25)
Is this not a classic Not In My Back Yard situation? Everyone wants the convenience of a mobile phone, but they don't want anything to do with the infrastructure required to provide it?
Tytherington Totty, Tytherington (11/09/2008 at 09:24)
And yes it is indeed a matter of 'not in my back yard', we all like the convenience of electricity but we don't queue up to have a pylon in our garden. It’s the same principle with phone masts, they are noisy, an eyesore, POTENTIALLY hazardous and they devalue the value of properties so I completely understand why people would complain about the installation.
The Satisfied Customer (11/09/2008 at 12:40)
MaccForum.co.uk (11/09/2008 at 14:36)
The fact is, there is no single scientific study, at least in the public domain, that makes a clear link between phone masts and cancer. Over two dozen research studies in the UK alone, indicate no causal link between phone masts and cancer or any other illness.
Just because people *think* something is so, doesn't mean it *is* so.
Certainly it will be important to continue such studies, since phone masts have only been around for a relatively short period of time. It's probably more prudent however, to base one's opinion on such matters on scientific fact, rather than the commentary of the media.
One "interesting" suggestion made, was to place a "placebo" phone mast somewhere, and to see if health-related complaints are still made because of its presence....
Hatch (11/09/2008 at 18:29)
The Satisfied Customer (12/09/2008 at 23:07)
mogangirl (22/09/2008 at 15:22)
Start reading
THE TRUTH SEEKER
then you would not believe government statistics(lies) any more, of course there is a cover up where big money is threatened to be stopped for all the fat cats (government coffers included) You only have to look at the scandal on alternative medicines, (plants and herbs) that the government are trying to ban now.To realise the public are being conned all the time.
People where i live have cured thenselves of cancer with just plants.
Even bicarbonate of soda kills cancer, everyone has that in there cupboards.
It just depends on if you are a sheep who beieves everything the government throws at you or not.
To my mind i prefer to do my own investigations and make my own mind up rather than be brainwashed by government agencies.
High voltage electricity and radiation from overloaded phone masts. Do cause illness and not just cancer, they affect the natural balance of the human electricity in the body which we all have.