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The maximum beam of a hotly-disputed mobile phone mast, under construction on the periphery of a Dundee playpark, will fall directly into the popular children’s facility, it has been claimed, writes Bryan Kay.
Local man Matthew Strachan has received a letter from operator O2, which he believes contains an admission that by erecting the mast they are flouting health risks flagged up by the Stewart Inquiry.
Councillors unanim-ously refused the plan for the 12.5-metre mast on Blackness Road, near Balgay playpark last year, but a Scottish Executive reporter overturned their decision.
Mr Strachan, a father of three young children, regularly uses the park and is deeply concerned by the letter’s contents.
“I have measured the area and it is about 30 metres away at the nearest point and 80 metres at the furthest point,” he said.
“The ground does rise from the mast to the furthest point — at the slide — but from what they say in this letter, the beam of maximum intensity does go directly into the playpark.
“I wrote to the chairman and made it clear I am really worried now that they have admitted this.
“They must be working with badly-drawn maps because the work is going ahead and they have the knowledge that the beam of maximum intensity falls into the park.
“When the Scottish Executive inspection took place, the agent said it wouldn’t fall into the playpark. He also said health concerns would not be taken into account.
“There was no consultation with playpark users. It goes smack against the Stewart Inquiry, which says to proceed carefully.”
The O2 letter states, “The beam of greatest intensity is at 0.147 of the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) public reference level at 73 metres, being the maximum exposure level.
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“The boundary of the playpark is not clearly defined, as it extends into the park area beyond.
“However, it would appear the furthest point of the equipment within the playpark is approximately 50m from our location.”
The letter went on to point out that scientific opinion remains divided on the health risks attached to masts, but conceded more research is required.
The company also disputed claims that no consultation was done prior to its planning application being submitted to the city council.
Near neighbours in Blackness Road, including residential properties, the bowling green, tennis club and Park View School, were all contacted, the company claimed.
O2 was unavailable for further comment before Press time.
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."
TOWN councillors will be considering the possibility of postponing installation of the controversial phone mast in Stratford cemetery after receiving advice from their solicitors.
A special meeting of Stratford Town Council has been called for Friday to look into the decision to sign the contract to install the mast on the cemetery chapel.
The mayor, Cllr Bill Lowe, called the meeting after the council’s legal experts examined its original contract with mobile phone company Hutchinson 3G.
Cllr Lowe said: “We’ve had correspondence in and I thought it was appropriate to get the council together following the concerns that are being expressed and look at the legal interpretation of our position.
Residents living near the site of a proposed mobile phone mast in Bulls Cross are continuing their protest despite the scheme being given the go-ahead.
A large crowd gathered last Friday at the site near the junction of Turkey Street and Great Cambridge Road to voice their disapproval.
Planning permission for the mast was granted by Enfield Council at a planning department meeting on August 31, following an application from T-Mobile.
Residents claim the council disregarded their concerns over the mast's environmental impact as well as potential health risks.
The Stewart report, published in 2000, found no evidence of a health risk to people living near mobile phone masts but public anxiety over the issue remains.
Paula Lamb, 42, of Bowles Green, was one of those protesting on Friday.
She said: "I am not happy with the thought that once this mast is installed it is going to be radiating waves into our bedrooms.
"I am prepared to sit in the hole to stop them putting it up."
Local authorities are not obliged under Government guidelines to take health concerns into consideration as long as radiofrequency emissions from the proposed mast meet radiation protection guidelines.
A council spokeswoman said: "The applicant was able to demonstrate that the proposal met the existing safety guidelines."
Residents also claim the consultaion process was flawed and inadequate.
Letters were sent to residents and schools at the beginning of July, but some recipients say this was unacceptable because many people were on holiday.
Staff at St Ignatius college, which is near the site, say they never received notification of the proposal and it was left to a concerned resident to inform them. Head of sixth form Anthony Holborne said a letter of protest to the council had gone unanswered and that parents and staff remained concerned.
The residents are unable to appeal the decision but may seek a judicial review and say they will continue their campaign into the decision-making process.
Protestor Jason Rosario said: "The idea of the campaign is to highlight the misuse of power by the council and to encourage residents not to be afraid to oppose applications."
An angry grandma has blasted plans to build a phone mast just 300 yards away from a nursery school.
Delia Smith, one of more than 70 objectors, is furious that phone giant Hutchison 3G wants to put up a 12.5 metre mast on Stubley Lane, Dronfield.
Mrs Smith (56), of Croft Lea, Dronfield Woodhouse claims there are three schools in the area, including Gosforth Pre-School just 300 yards from the proposed site.
She said: "It's just ridiculous how Hutchison 3G has been able to put in again and again for this mast. We just don't want it in our community.
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"If the Government can give us a 100 per cent assurance it is safe, then great, but where there is a doubt they shouldn't be able to erect them near schools and communities."
Dronfield Town Council unanimously voted against the proposal to site the mast on the road verge next to the Talbot Arms pub, on Monday.
Councillors voiced fears about the height of the mast and unknown dangers to health.
However, the bid has been recommended for approval when it goes before planners at NE Derbyshire District Council on Tuesday.
A NEDDC spokeswoman said there was no previous history of an application on the site. However, there had been three other applications over the last few years by Hutchison in the Barnes Farm area, Barnes Lane, Dronfield, all of which had been turned down by the council.
A spokesman for Hutchison 3G said: "The mobile base station will be a 12.5 metre slimline column. Its design will blend in with the surrounding street scene and the proposal will not have a negative impact on the visual amenity of the area.
"I understand that some people may have concerns about the mobile phone health issue but it is important to look at the scientific evidence surrounding it.
"The most recent expert review of the science in the UK by the Independent Advisory Group on Non Ionising Radiation (January 2004) had a very positive message for the public: 'Exposure levels from living near mobile phone base stations are extremely low, and the overall evidence indicates that they are unlikely to pose a risk to human health.' In fact, radiowave exposure for a base station is about 1,000 times less than from a mobile phone.
"There is a need for suburban 3G coverage in Dronfield and requirement, by the public, for its services to give access to video messaging and many more mobile video applications such as news, sport and music."
Sharesa Price thought it was just another in a series of sinus infections. Her head and eyes hurt, and she was vomiting. But then Price had a seizure, and a brain scan found something far more troubling.
"When I got home, the phone was ringing. It was the doctor's office, and they told me, `Brace yourself. Honey, you have a brain tumor.' I was standing by the refrigerator, and I just collapsed, saying, `no, no, no, it can't be a brain tumor,'" she recalled.
After her diagnosis in 1999 and surgery to remove most of the tumor, Price started looking for answers. She became convinced that exposure to radio-frequency radiation on the job, where she programmed cell phones for new customers, had caused the tumor.
In May, an administrative law judge who handles worker's compensation claims awarded her $30,000 to pay her medical bills and other expenses. Price may be the first person to convince a judge that her illness was caused by radio-frequency radiation. The decision is unlikely to have widespread repercussions for the cell phone industry, however, because the settlement was small.
Price's customers at Advanced Communications Systems in northern California were doctors, firefighters, police departments and security departments for casinos, and she loved her work. She used a cell phone several hours each day, and the room in which she worked contained transmitters that emitted radio-frequency radiation, she said.
Price said when she filed a workers comp claim, her boss fired her, eliminating her health insurance. Then she lost the case. The Native American single mother of two daughters was devastated. She turned to Tribal Health, a government health agency for Native Americans, to get anti-seizure medication.
"If I hadn't been Indian, I would have died," she said.
Her former boss, Dave Bohlen, said that he did not fire Price, that she quit based on her doctor's advice that she not return to work there. Bohlen said he dropped the insurance because she was no longer an employee. He called her worker's comp case "frivolous" and said there was no proof her tumor was caused by working in his small shop.
"There's nothing harmful going on here," he said.
After Price recovered from brain surgery, she went to the Internet and found researchers studying the biological effects of radio-frequency radiation, and got to know them.
"I would call them up and say, `You are absolutely dead on. If a rat could talk, this is what it would say. I'm the human rat.' "
Price couldn't find an attorney to take her case until she contacted Carl Hilliard, a semi-retired lawyer and president of the Wireless Consumers Alliance, a California-based consumer-advocacy group. Hilliard volunteered to represent her pro bono and re-filed her workers comp case.
Hilliard said his group has represented cell phone users in issues involving poor service, billing problems and misrepresentations by cell phone service providers.
"We're the ones who filed a case saying federal law does not pre-empt state law [on consumer issues] and won that case four years ago," Hilliard said.
Hilliard brought in Dr. Nachman Brautbar, an occupational toxicologist and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, to review Price's medical records.
Brautbar has been an expert witness in a number of high-profile cases, including the chromium poisonings from polluted drinking water portrayed in the movie Erin Brockovich.
Brautbar reviewed Price's case and wrote a report supporting her claim that the tumor was caused by exposure to radio-frequency radiation.
"It's not a money issue, suing the company, it's a health and safety issue," said Price, who speaks to school assemblies and classes about the need to use a headset when talking on a cell phone. "We need to explain to people that just like putting on condoms, you have to take this precautionary measure to make the product be as safe as it can be."
Nancy McVicar can be reached at nmcvicar@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4593.
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