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Original poster

To not want a mobile mast 20 metres from my house....

121 replies

bookbird · 07/02/2012 15:33

....and to feel frustrated that no-one else seems to care?

Mast would be 20 metres from DS's bedroom window and 50 metres from his school playground. He'll never escape from it.

Also frustrated at the "no proven health risks to mobile masts" line that the planning consultant sent me. Yeah, but health risks aren't disproven either and I'd rather not play the lottery with my DCs health thanks very much.

I suppose this is really NIMBYish but I'm really worried about our proximity to it.

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WorraLiberty · 07/02/2012 15:35

They have to stick them somewhere I suppose

We all use mobile phones

Rindercella · 07/02/2012 15:36

What Worra said.

GreatExpecTEEtions · 07/02/2012 15:38

What are your specific concerns? Mobile is just another form of wireless broadcast and people have been broadcasting wirelessly since the turn of the 20th Century, so well over a 100 years.

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bookbird · 07/02/2012 15:44

Non-iodising radiation is my major concern. It's believed that children are more susceptible and most of the "no proven health risks" research is funded by mobile companies.

Until they have proven no health risk, I think it's really irresponsible to site a mast right next to a school.

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Dickensia · 07/02/2012 15:47

Well, if you don't like the idea, write a letter of objection in response to the planning application notification. You probably are not the only house affected so generate some other objections including one from the school.

ReduceRecycleRegift · 07/02/2012 15:49

it is the best place for it, better there than farther away, look into the science of it, it radiates out in cone shapes so the person under it is safer than the person far away, that is why they try to put them on schools but NIMBYs who don't look into the technology object and get it placed away where it makes the children MORE in its line of fire!

TiggyD · 07/02/2012 15:51

Unicorns haven't been disproven either. You can't prove things to be safe. you can only prove things are not unsafe as far as we know. Chairs have not been proven to be safe. Same as French people.

I suppose you will take a stand and stop using your mobile phone from now on?

Original poster
bookbird · 07/02/2012 15:53

I have objected Dickensia, We've also created a Facebook page and DH has made some signs informing people of said page. We've only had 2 likes.

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bejeezus · 07/02/2012 15:54

you cant prove a negative

ReduceRecycleRegift · 07/02/2012 15:55

bookbird have you listened to what I said?, the people under it are in a sort of black spot because they are bellow the point of the triangle, its the people further away who are within that triangle!

or are you not interested?

DontDickensBooksDragOn · 07/02/2012 15:57

Do you use a mobile phone?

DontDickensBooksDragOn · 07/02/2012 15:57

Does your house have WiFi?

ReduceRecycleRegift · 07/02/2012 15:57

If they re-site it way from the school the school will be within the triangle/cone, so will get MORE of it!

TheParanoidAndroid · 07/02/2012 15:58

Nobody has disproven that Mumsnet gives you the crazy, but you still use that.

Also, if you use mobile phones you are a massive hypocrite and a NIMBY.

TherapeuticVino · 07/02/2012 16:00

Campaign against it - we did and have no mast :) Good luck!

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bookbird · 07/02/2012 16:02

I was doing the maths reduce! Its planned for 17.5 metres high, so we won't be directly under it at 20 metres away. Neither will the school at 50 metres. I think that's why 50% of UK LAs don't allow masts within 200 metres of schools.

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TheParanoidAndroid · 07/02/2012 16:03

Answer the questions about your own mobile use, please.

TheRhubarb · 07/02/2012 16:04

Reduce - sorry love, can't hear you will all that radiation buzzing around! Grin

I wouldn't like it either tbh. I hate mobile phones and refused to get the kids one. We live near some electricity pylons, lots of them, they ruin the view and worry me lots. But they were there when we bought this house so there is bugger all we can do about it. I think the risks are more than mobile phone masts too Sad

Original poster
bookbird · 07/02/2012 16:04

I do use a mobile, but I don't allow my DCs anywhere near, I'm also able to switch my wifi off!

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TheParanoidAndroid · 07/02/2012 16:05

Oh, okay, so you need mobile masts, you just don't want one next to you? Nice.

ReduceRecycleRegift · 07/02/2012 16:06

I suppose most LAs don't bother any more because it's not worth the hassle of NIMBYs who are really more concerns about how it'll be PERCEIVED by potential house buyers than actually really understanding why LAs at least initially tried to put them near schools. the nearer you are the LESS in it you are. I would much rather one near my son's school than one away from it pointing right at it! They point out!

Original poster
bookbird · 07/02/2012 16:06

Cripes paranoid android, sorry I failed to meet your 5 minute response deadline.

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TheParanoidAndroid · 07/02/2012 16:08

Just wanted to get your hypocrisy out of the way early, it does rather discredit you.

Agincourt · 07/02/2012 16:08

we have one near our house, though admittedly not as close, and they have decorated it to look like a tree with fake branches and it looks most odd. It is a mast with an identity crisis

ReduceRecycleRegift · 07/02/2012 16:08

it will go somewhere, clap clap if you got it moved from the safest point for your children (near their school) so now its away from the school pointing directly at it! well done.

Bloody NIMBYs