Outcry over rogue phone mast site
ANGRY residents are demanding answers after workmen turned up near their homes to start work on a phone mast.
As far as they are concerned plans for the mast in Granny Hall Lane, Brighouse, were rejected and they were shocked when they heard the mast would be going up after Christmas.
Calderdale planners are now investigating to find out what is going on.
Plans for a Vodaphone mobile phone station were refused in January 2006 when residents made their views clear they did not want the mast. Ninety-three letters of objection and a petition were sent to the council.
(Full story in the Brighouse Echo 29/11/07) “Everyone wants a mobile phone but no one wants a mast near their homes.”
Orange PCS was given the go- ahead for a lamp-post mounted antenna in Granny Hall Lane in 1999 but the Vodaphone application in 2005 for three antennae on top of a 10m telegraph pole with an equipment cabinet and pillar was turned down. The residents, who sent in 93 letters and a petition, were concerned about health risks and suggested other sites would be more suitable.
Planning officers said the mast would dwarf the area and said the equipment would create a ‘visual clutter’. They suggested alternative sites were available.
A spokesman for the planning department said as far as they were concerned there had been no appeal and they were in the process of looking into the matter.
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