Telecoms giant reconsiders mast site
Telecommunications giant Vodafone has agreed to put on ice plans for a phone mast in Revelstoke Road as it considers another site.
The company had been granted prior approval for the 13.4m mast by Merton Council, but during 11th-hour talks with councillors, the company agreed to consider a relocation.
Town hall bosses can only stop the mast if it is next to a site of interest, such as a conservation area, or above 15m.
Unhappy residents have reacted with outrage to the mast which would be next to Revelstoke Road Surgery and near to Wimbledon Park Primary School and a petition collected hundreds of signatures.
Campaigner Alison Palmer, of Normanton Avenue, said: " I understand that mobile phone masts are a necessary evil but surely this mast could be better sited on industrial land."
10:05am today
http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.638108.0.telecoms_giant_reconsiders_mast_site.php
The company had been granted prior approval for the 13.4m mast by Merton Council, but during 11th-hour talks with councillors, the company agreed to consider a relocation.
Town hall bosses can only stop the mast if it is next to a site of interest, such as a conservation area, or above 15m.
Unhappy residents have reacted with outrage to the mast which would be next to Revelstoke Road Surgery and near to Wimbledon Park Primary School and a petition collected hundreds of signatures.
Campaigner Alison Palmer, of Normanton Avenue, said: " I understand that mobile phone masts are a necessary evil but surely this mast could be better sited on industrial land."
10:05am today
http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.638108.0.telecoms_giant_reconsiders_mast_site.php
Starmail - 6. Okt, 14:41
