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Planning Sanity. For information, advice and guidance
Mast Sanity: Planning Section. For information, advice and guidance
Helpline: 08704 322377 (1pm to 8pm Mon to Fri)
 Mast Victims website
Know your terms. They are a bit woolly.
A plea for planning control and protection by precaution
Powerwatch: the danger and scandal of masts below 10m
Law and official guidelines
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on planning (PPG8: Planning Policy Guidelines on Telecommunications).
Class A Permitted Development of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2001
The Electronic Communications Code Regulations, 2003
Telecommunications (Permitted Development Rights) (Amendment) Bill, April 2004
See also the Mobile phone network development: code of best practice
The Planning Inspectorate website
Making your planning appeal
Potential litigation or law suits
Churches of all places, prefer love of money to love of many (see also letter of caution)
Christian Ecology Link on precaution and masts in towers and spires
Church of England signs deal with arms technology giant Quintel (see Qinetiq); it’s good for the community to host the microwaves all in one place. (Oh, and what about the content running through the holy spires?)
How much do you know about the Aarhus Convention on Environmental democracy? Ratified by the EC in February 2005, this convention is about access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. Are you getting good information? Are you truly participating in the decisions? Do you have justice? Whether you object on visual environmental impact, or effects on birds, or because it makes you unwell, this Convention is one to understand and exercise. Read it, discuss it, and raise your objections using it. Europa website on the Aarhus Convention.
Schools and colleges
Vancouver School Board makes a decision to ban masts adjacent to schools
Putting Cell Phone Antennas Near Schools Is Too Risky
Concerned about proximity to schools? If so read also the letter from David Milliband, Schools Minister
Schools and colleges whose buildings or grounds fall within the main beam of a base station should receive this letter
Mobile masts and planning, for school governors
Just one of many examples of masts being sited near schools without notification, consultation or consent
A survey of two schools, one with a mobile mast, one without
Schools and Cellular Antannas
 Schools: a landmark case for the Deputy PM?
A note on the rateable value of base stations, for landlords to note. Masts are not necessarily a good source of revenue.
Compare this ‘Resolution passed by of the Los Angeles Unified School District B, June 2000’
Schools and masts: not just a British concern
US antenna on school site: with review of health evidence by an MD
Vancouver campaign for protection of schools
The planning debate
Proposed New Telecommunications Bill : 2006
Phone masts spread blight
The Deputy Prime Minister’s Dilemma on planning
All Party Parliamentary Mobile Group public inquiry on siting of masts
All party parliamentary group report, 20 July 2004
Is this all the Government can say in response?
Campaign to Protect Rural England. At the very least, masts are ruining our landscapes.
The Yasmin Skelt case: ‘Genuine public fear and concern is a material planning consideration to be taken into account by the Decision Maker.’
Councils rapped by watchdog over mast siting error (compensation due to residents)
MP bids to tighten mobile mast controls: David Amess MP (Con)
Government urged to beef up phone mast regulations
Richard Spring MP: second reading of Transmission Masts (Private Member’s) Bill. House of Commons debate won 10 votes to 2, defeated by MP disinterest. Please read.
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