(KM Group 2011)
Cllrs' Osborne, Godwin and Craven are standing by residents in Burma Way and Tobruk Way in Chatham in opposing the proposed 20m phone mast proposal from O2.
We object to the phone mast development because of its proximity to residential areas and schools and we believe these developments are better suited to less residential areas.
Please see letter below:
Planning - MC11598 - Phone_Mast,_Wayfield
It's very close to the mast opposite the end of Wayfield road, across the ward boundary on the edge of the Ridgeway Banks.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't it go there instead, as did the one proposed (must be getting on for 4 years ago) for Cherbourg? I recall it well as I sort of "offered" it as an alternative site back then. Surely the applicant must have looked at that possibility...
I was not aware of that position but then being a relative 'newbie' would make sense.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do not understand is why these companies insist on placing these things in the middle of residential communities. Medway has a lot of land where these masts would be more suited. Brown field, industrial or warehouse sites.
Sufficed to say I sense another appeal coming on :(
There are genuine technical issues with getting coverage for the (far more complex) 3G signals to all places where people have their 'phones, and of course that means residential areas.
ReplyDeleteUntil a new technology supplants radio waves, we are going to see yet more years of additional masts and antennae being 'needed'. Sub-etheric would be ideal, needing only one base station (at the company's HQ to cover the entire Solar System(!)