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Story: Mobile phone masts to face public consultation

Posted by: Gemma Davies (Friday 28 November 2003, 11:49 AM)

I am representing WARM, Whitton Against Radiation Masts, and we are protesting against the erection of 3 new 3G masts on a site at the end of our children's school play ground.

There are already a staggering 24 antennae on this telephone exchange in Ashdale Close in Whitton.

We dispute the accuracy of readings taken by the Radiocommunications Agency. The company have admitted that our exposure levels will rise to between 1/200 at the school and 1/12 in residential road.

3G technolgy is known to operate at much higher frequencies. The recent Dutch government report has established a causal link between 3G technology and headaches, nausea and memory loss, particularly in the young.

My child suffered from headaches last year - coincidently this was in the classroom closest to the mast!

We dispute the Company's assertion that' expansive' local consultation took place.

The regulation, that the Compnay should notify the school, arrived during the school's Summer Holidays giving us 14 days to respond which expired before the return to school.

Why bother notifying the school if over 700 signatures and numerous letters are not valid objections in the planning process!
WE ARE VERY ANGRY!