Pylon cancer fears put £7bn blight on house prices
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A point was made today about “They Work for you” it should be “Do they work for you”? I think we all know the answer to that question.
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Today’s important news in the Telegraph below from WART, make sure you read it. What’s it going to be like when they are forced to remove houses from phone masts? There will be no where left to live in the UK.
Eileen O’Connor
W-A-R-T
Wednesbury Action for the Removal of Telephone masts.
http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Check out this article. The Government have sat on this research for over five years.
Pylon cancer fears put £7bn blight on house prices
By Nic Fleming,
Medical Correspondent
(Filed: 29/04/2006)
Up to £7 billion will be wiped off property values if the Government accepts the advice of experts that homes should no longer be built near overhead power lines because of possible links with childhood leukaemia.
About 130,000 houses could lose between 10 per cent and a quarter of their re-sale price if ministers take the advice of a committee set up by the Department of Health. Pylons Research continues into whether pylons are responsible for increased cases of leukaemia
A draft of a report by the committee, seen by The Daily Telegraph, states that building houses within 230ft of high voltage power lines and 115ft of lower voltage lines should be banned.
The confidential document, written by John Swanson, the scientific adviser to the National Grid, considers the option of compulsorily buying all 75,000 homes in England and Wales that are affected.
But a more recent paper, written last month, sets out the group's preferred option - an end to the building of houses near overhead lines and a ban on new power lines being built near existing homes.
The draft report acknowledges that implementing this as a policy could wipe a quarter off the value of 25,000 homes within 230ft of 400kv and 275kv overhead transmission lines and some 10 per cent from the value of 55,000 houses within 460ft of them.
It also admits there could be a reduction of 15 per cent in the value of 50,000 homes within 100ft of the lower voltage 132kv power lines.
The documents are the work of the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Extremely Low Frequency Electromagentic Fields (Sage). This committee was set up by the DoH in October 2004 following the publication of a report by Dr Gerald Draper, of the Oxford childhood cancer research group.
Dr Draper suggested that children under 15 living near high voltage power lines could have a 69 per cent increased risk of getting leukaemia.
Some scientists pointed out that while the research found a statistical association, it did not establish a causal link and they rejected the findings.
Sage includes representatives of the DoH, the National Grid, the Health Protection Agency, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Academics from the University of Bristol and Nottingham Trent University are also members, as well as a number of campaigners from groups committed to highlighting what they believe are the potential dangers of electromagnetic fields.
Nicholas Ashe, of Property Vision, a leading firm of country house and estate buying agents, said the potential loss of value to properties could be even greater than Sage's working group predicts.
He said: "The higher the value of the house, the greater the impact. We are talking about reductions of up to 50 per cent.
"For the kind of country house we find for clients, the majority of the market would be wiped out and properties could become almost unsaleable.
"It would have the same affect as building a road nearby or the property being under a new flight path."
The draft Sage report, dated last November, acknowledges that power lines already have an impact on property values, with a home in a rural location within 165ft of a National Grid transmission line losing 15 per cent of its value.
It considers potential policy options if the Government were to decide that no one should be allowed to live within 230ft of power lines.
These include the compulsory purchase and demolition of all houses near the lines.
"This section considers the more modest policy of applying this prospectively, ie stopping any new homes from being built near power lines but not doing anything directly with existing homes.
"However one possible consequence of this prospective-only policy is that it nonetheless causes devaluation of existing properties."
The report lists four scenarios for the loss of value caused by the Government adopting Sage's preliminary advice. This amounts to between £3 billion and £7 billion.
The report will be presented to the Government in June along with another report on new advice on electrical wiring within the home.
It states that whether home and landowners could claim compensation from electricity companies will depend partly on the contractual arrangements between the parties, and whether the Government introduces compulsory or voluntary measures.
Whatever happens, it seems likely that the overall costs will ultimately be borne by consumers.
A spokesman for the National Grid said: "We are not going to disclose any details until the firm conclusions of the group are published this summer."
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KICYAAGPSMXEHQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/04/29/npylons29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/29/ixportaltop.html
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Experts rule out houses near pylons
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1878709/
Shielding for high voltage powerlines
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1710689/
A point was made today about “They Work for you” it should be “Do they work for you”? I think we all know the answer to that question.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-04-25b.64843.h&s=mobile+phone#g64843.r0
Today’s important news in the Telegraph below from WART, make sure you read it. What’s it going to be like when they are forced to remove houses from phone masts? There will be no where left to live in the UK.
Eileen O’Connor
W-A-R-T
Wednesbury Action for the Removal of Telephone masts.
http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Check out this article. The Government have sat on this research for over five years.
Pylon cancer fears put £7bn blight on house prices
By Nic Fleming,
Medical Correspondent
(Filed: 29/04/2006)
Up to £7 billion will be wiped off property values if the Government accepts the advice of experts that homes should no longer be built near overhead power lines because of possible links with childhood leukaemia.
About 130,000 houses could lose between 10 per cent and a quarter of their re-sale price if ministers take the advice of a committee set up by the Department of Health. Pylons Research continues into whether pylons are responsible for increased cases of leukaemia
A draft of a report by the committee, seen by The Daily Telegraph, states that building houses within 230ft of high voltage power lines and 115ft of lower voltage lines should be banned.
The confidential document, written by John Swanson, the scientific adviser to the National Grid, considers the option of compulsorily buying all 75,000 homes in England and Wales that are affected.
But a more recent paper, written last month, sets out the group's preferred option - an end to the building of houses near overhead lines and a ban on new power lines being built near existing homes.
The draft report acknowledges that implementing this as a policy could wipe a quarter off the value of 25,000 homes within 230ft of 400kv and 275kv overhead transmission lines and some 10 per cent from the value of 55,000 houses within 460ft of them.
It also admits there could be a reduction of 15 per cent in the value of 50,000 homes within 100ft of the lower voltage 132kv power lines.
The documents are the work of the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Extremely Low Frequency Electromagentic Fields (Sage). This committee was set up by the DoH in October 2004 following the publication of a report by Dr Gerald Draper, of the Oxford childhood cancer research group.
Dr Draper suggested that children under 15 living near high voltage power lines could have a 69 per cent increased risk of getting leukaemia.
Some scientists pointed out that while the research found a statistical association, it did not establish a causal link and they rejected the findings.
Sage includes representatives of the DoH, the National Grid, the Health Protection Agency, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Academics from the University of Bristol and Nottingham Trent University are also members, as well as a number of campaigners from groups committed to highlighting what they believe are the potential dangers of electromagnetic fields.
Nicholas Ashe, of Property Vision, a leading firm of country house and estate buying agents, said the potential loss of value to properties could be even greater than Sage's working group predicts.
He said: "The higher the value of the house, the greater the impact. We are talking about reductions of up to 50 per cent.
"For the kind of country house we find for clients, the majority of the market would be wiped out and properties could become almost unsaleable.
"It would have the same affect as building a road nearby or the property being under a new flight path."
The draft Sage report, dated last November, acknowledges that power lines already have an impact on property values, with a home in a rural location within 165ft of a National Grid transmission line losing 15 per cent of its value.
It considers potential policy options if the Government were to decide that no one should be allowed to live within 230ft of power lines.
These include the compulsory purchase and demolition of all houses near the lines.
"This section considers the more modest policy of applying this prospectively, ie stopping any new homes from being built near power lines but not doing anything directly with existing homes.
"However one possible consequence of this prospective-only policy is that it nonetheless causes devaluation of existing properties."
The report lists four scenarios for the loss of value caused by the Government adopting Sage's preliminary advice. This amounts to between £3 billion and £7 billion.
The report will be presented to the Government in June along with another report on new advice on electrical wiring within the home.
It states that whether home and landowners could claim compensation from electricity companies will depend partly on the contractual arrangements between the parties, and whether the Government introduces compulsory or voluntary measures.
Whatever happens, it seems likely that the overall costs will ultimately be borne by consumers.
A spokesman for the National Grid said: "We are not going to disclose any details until the firm conclusions of the group are published this summer."
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KICYAAGPSMXEHQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/04/29/npylons29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/29/ixportaltop.html
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Experts rule out houses near pylons
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1878709/
Shielding for high voltage powerlines
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1710689/
Starmail - 29. Apr, 11:19
