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

[bookbird]

....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.

I'll go away and research the cone effect now though.

Might have been better to do that first before getting all frothy at the mouth and shreiking for them to move the mast.

What a silly fuss over nothing.

and just think of all those poor badgers

and moles....

The problem is, you want to manage your dc's exposure but are not prepared to do away with your own mobile phone. You cannot have it both ways...

Are you ever on your mobile whist your dc are near? Do you have wifi internet access? Do you use said wifi whilst your dc are nearby?
You are already exposing them!

and hares

"Most people I think object because of the way they look. Maybe subconsciously?"

WSS, especially the likes of the OP who object to the fact it's there without first learning what it does and how!

Signing off to pick up DCs. Think I'll go back to lurking!

Do you turn your WiFi off?

Do you also turn off your neighbours WiFi?

or you could try educating yourself properly?

And wabbits

Do you have a mobile yourself?

If the answer is yes YABU.

Newts. Great crested newts to be precise.

earthworms, won't somebody please think of the earthworms!

Moths!

Bats!

and owls

Apparently mobile phone masts frazzle head lice, so there's a bonus for you!

AND it's true - google it!

most schools have wifi in them

just saying like

giggling at "non-iodising radiation"...

OP: we live in an absolute fog of electromagnetic radiation: the light from the sun, the thermal radiation from the ground and atmosphere, the endless microwave chatter from a billion supernova and black holes and pulsars and even the Big Bang itself, not to mention the soup of radio and TV transmissions.

That's before we look at the actual nasty ionising radiation, the stuff that actually hurts people: everything from cosmic rays to Cornish radon and the uranium and thorium dumped across the the Midlands and Yorkshire by the giant coal-burning power stations there.

On the grand scale of things, a mobile mast or a wifi station is a fart in a hurricane.

Those fecking Cornish with their fecking radons - the bastards!

TheRhubarb They put it in the pasties for extra zinginess.

i wears me tin foil hat I do, nobodies gonna be watching my thoughts, no way me lovelies

how fucking dare they! That's it, a facebook page will be started, we will march on the streets and boycott all Cornish pasties henceforth!

I went to school on limestone land, had to have radon meters in the classrooms! It's no accident that we live in a less radioactive area now! Whole streets where I grew up would have someone in every single house with cancer at any given time! but there'ld still be some bright spark there who would object to a mast near a school wonder if the OP even knows what kind of land the school is on before worrying about the mast?

If you feel very strongly about it, and there are alternative sites - then mobilise people. Get a petition going, for example.

I have no clue whether these things are harmful or not. tbh, I wouldn't want one outside my window cos they look a bugger

but if you talk to people and enough people agree with you - then put your case, as everyone has the right to do.