Members of Telford & Wrekin Council are demanding that the borough releases land for mobile phone masts to prevent them from being sited near homes, schools and hospitals.

A comprehensive and up-to-date register of all phone mast sites could also be made available to the public, if a motion due to be put forward at next week’s council meeting gets the support of councillors.

The motion is being proposed by Councillor Arnold England, and also calls for the council and the borough’s MPs to lobby the government to give local authorities more power over where phone masts are built.

Councillor England says a forum should be created to liaise with the mobile phone companies and consider developments on health issues.

Telford anti-phone mast campaigner, Bev Walker, said that she hoped the council would support the proposal.

The full version of this story appears in the Last edition of tonight’s Shropshire Star.

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