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3G Rollout Threatened By Mast Protests
News The rollout of third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks in the UK may be hampered by public protests against mobile masts, as Parliament considers a proposal that could make it harder for operators to get planning permission for 3G base stations.
[April 19, 2002, 17:33]
News Burst: Tories Call For National Ban On Mobile Masts
News In a letter sent to Conservative group leaders, shadow environment secretary Archie Norman urged that planning permission be refused for any new mobile masts on council land. Earlier this month, Kent County Council voted to refuse planning...
[January 31, 2001, 10:33]
Kent Council Bans Mobile Masts
News KCC also urged mobile phone companies to voluntarily apply for full planning permission for all masts, as recommended in the Stewart Report. The comments came after the council agreed a policy of refusing planning permission for mobile masts on all...
[January 22, 2001, 15:53]
Government May Ease The Way For Wireless Broadband
News Currently, householders are only allowed to install one satellite dish without planning permission. Any second dish, or any first dish that is larger than a set size, or any other type of antenna, requires planning permission.
[April 8, 2003, 13:41]
Strategies For Success: When Corporate Cultures Clash
White Papers It is reprinted here with permission of Montgomery Research, Inc. Too often, mid-sized businesses overlook the effect of corporate culture on the success of enterprise resource planning (ERP). This paper highlights important tips for successful ERP...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mobile Phone Masts To Face Public Consultation
News Under the new rules, planning permission will now be needed for all masts -- not just those that are 15m or higher as at present. Local people will be given a greater say in the siting of all mobile phone masts, under changes to the planning system...
[March 20, 2001, 6:10]
Government To Crackdown On Mobile Phone Companies
News BT has some concerns that full planning permission could be somewhat cumbersome," says a spokesman. Public health minister Yvette Cooper, told reporters Friday that she is "minded" to accept the Report's findings on the building of mobile phone...
[May 12, 2000, 14:55]
Hospital Mobile Mast Plan Sparks Row
News Last year's Stewart Report recommended that exclusion zones were established around all mobile mast sites, and urged the government to change the law so that planning permission is required for all mobile masts.
[January 26, 2001, 10:30]
Chancellor Boosts UK IT Industry Hopes
News The average time for permission to be given for planning is 8 weeks according to Grundy, although he admits bigger applications take longer. These included a review of local authority planning application systems to facilitate the setting up of...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
Japanese 3G Faces Further Delays
News Full-scale 3G services may be delayed in Japan until 2002 or later after the government refused to give NTT DoCoMo permission to launch a full-scale 3G network. However, sources suggest that the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications...
[May 30, 2001, 14:04]
BT Phorm Trial Leak Rekindles Row
News As BT had not obtained permission from users, website owners or search companies to redirect data, Clayton argued BT had intercepted the data illegally under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
[June 6, 2008, 18:01]
Mobile Phone Campaigners Welcome Court Ruling
News Under current planning rules, local councils are not allowed to take perceived health dangers into account when deciding whether an application for permission to build a new mobile mast should be allowed.
[June 28, 2002, 17:20]
Email Filter Chokes On 'erection'
News By the time Kennedy's third email arrived, he was informed that permission had already been given for the extension. An errant email filter caused Rochdale Council to ignore an objection to a planning application because it contained the word...
[June 1, 2006, 17:05]
Wednesday: The Magic Of Music
Blog But I wonder if it will realise that I did this with the copyright holder's express permission -- I was talking to the composer on a bulletin board about a piece of music I'd heard of theirs on the radio, and they quietly slipped me an email...
[June 27, 2003, 9:57]
Online Map Will Be Millennium's Doomsday Book
News The company behind the project -- Millennium Mapping Company -- believes there will be a variety of commercial uses for the map, including being used for boundary or planning permission for local authorities, utilities using it to plan its...
[November 4, 1999, 16:45]
Rivals Accuse BT Of Stifling Broadband Britain
Talkback Ever tried to get cable to be told your area isnt covered by cable modems, and oops, cant get satellite broadband as can only have 1 dish without planning permission, not to mention the costs of satellite compared to cable or dsl.
[March 28, 2004, 9:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's more prosaic than that, of course: churches are tall and notoriously under-funded structures positioned near all the oldest and densest centres of population, often exempt from various layers of planning permission, while mobile phone...
[December 3, 2004, 17:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, though, the company has asked for planning permission to turn the main screen into a restaurant and bar, together with a load of other changes that the cinema's supporters claim would utterly ruin the place.
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
BT Announces Wind-farm Scheme
News It is currently looking at suitable sites, but has already applied for planning permission for test masts at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, Wideford Hill Radio Station in the Orkney Islands and Scousburgh Radio Station in Shetland.
[October 19, 2007, 13:50]
Conserving Energy In An Automated Home - Part 3
Blog Solar is more expensive per watt, and the panels would have to be mounted only on the rear of the house, if planning permission is granted at all. Thus far I’ve got the hard-drive standby mode sorted on the main fileserver in the house (boron) and...
[December 7, 2007, 20:28]
