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THREE proposals to install phone masts in Three Rivers were rejected last week.

The applications, all for T Mobile, were for masts in Baldwins Lane in Croxley Green, Hill Farm in Stag Lane, Chorleywood, and land at the junction of Valley Road with The Clump in Rickmansworth.

All three were unanimously rejected at a meeting of Three Rivers' development control committee last Thursday.

Council leader and committee member Ann Shaw led the calls for all masts to be rejected.

She said: "The development control committee looks at each mast application individually on its merits in the situation proposed.

"We objected to the masts proposed for Baldwins Lane and the junction of The Clump and Valley Road as too obtrusive and prominent in the street scene.

"The Hill Top Farm site was rejected as inappropriate development in the Green Belt."

Anti-mobile phone mast campaigner Yasmin Skelt, of Chorleywood, said: "Everyone in our group is very pleased with the council's decision.

"Residents joined forces to oppose these applications and the decisions show local democracy in action." For full story see Friday's printed version of the Watford Observer.

11:02am Tuesday 19th July 2005