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.

TV I've looked at the Daily Mail article (road name beginging with C, right?) and there's problems you could drive a bus through in it. Basically you expect to get clusters of cancerns occuring just because of how random distribution happens, none of them are rare cancers, it is a densely populated area, so a lot of people live near the mast, the period of time included is five years, and if you include all cancers a large proportion of the population (especially those over 50) get cancer.

If masts were causing these cancers we would have seen a massive rise across the country as masts were put up, not just near to that one building. Afraid sometimes bad things just happen and we can't control them.

Bookbird, there are well over 100 MN threads about mobile phone masts here.

I am dashing about today but will come back to you. Good for you for maintaining your dignity on this thread.

This is a nice short thread with some useful links.

This one is useful too - features a poster who used to work in the industry, Zac Goldsmith, and some good links.

Does everyone not turn off their wifi at night?
I am obsessive about turning things off. I switch them all off at the socket too. Mobile phones are also switched off unless they are being used as alarm clocks by lazy dh.

As an aside, have you noticed all the dead badgers on the roads recently? Apparently it's because the mobile phone masts are making them all suicide. True fact that is!

In my office there are two boosters, one chucks out a lot of heat, one doesnt.
Ive been pregnant twice working around the boosters and my kids are fine.

Anecdotal evidence I know but hey.

yanbu

wonder how many of those suggesting nimbyism would be feeling the same if it were their backyard

they should be more thoughtful when planning these things and maybe offer to buy the houses of those who don't want to live with whatever they're shoving in

oh and PA - no need to be such a prick

TheRhubarb, I guess David Archer - as in "The Archers" - should erect phone masts all over Brookfield Farm, then. Would solve all his problems at a stroke, since farmers are paid a fortune for allowing phone companies to put masts up on their land. Local people aren't normally so keen, however.

But you will get a really good reception

You will indeed get really good reception.

There's another very informative thread here.

Erm, shop I'm not an Archers fan so you might have to explain?
Is he plagued by suicidal badgers?

My in-laws have a wind turbine (or 3) up on their farm. All the villagers complained, saying that house prices would go down, the sound would reverberate round the village, birds would be killed, it would ruin the view etc etc etc. They even threatened my elderly in-laws although it was BIL who planned it all and bought the piece of land from his dad.

Anyhoo, a year later and no noise issues, no flocks of dead birds, no effect on house prices, the turbines work really well producing electricity most days and plenty of people from miles around have descended upon the village to see them, bringing trade into local shops and pubs.
I feel like putting up signs saying "Ner!"

What's more, the badgers don't seem to mind either.

oh I'm so hurt.

No nimbyism here, theres a mast pretty close, and we all have only one head, no extra fingers. No badgers either though, maybe thats why?

We have a mobile mast over the road from us (literally). DD has lived in this house all her life, I was here when pregnant, she has not got three ears, green skin or any form of mutation.

I am therefore totally allowed to accuse you of NIMBYism.

I get absolutely crap reception downstairs though, I feel cheated.

I know a couple who raised their child without electricity, in a hut in the remote wildnerness, no mobile phones, no computers etc. That child glows in the dark and has 10 heads. But the badgers are all doing fine.

Oh, it's to do with badgers, and TB in cattle - the badgers pose a TB risk to cattle, so they are a nuisance to cattle farmers; so he would love something which made badgers die.

Also he is in big trouble with Ruth because the financial situation is so dire that he wants to sell the cattle (oh, no!).

If he let a mobile phone mast be built on Brookfield he would get a very, very handsome annual payments so they would no longer have money problems.

Some success stories here, bookbird.

You just have to say "boo" to the mobile phone company. They really don't want bad publicity, so if it looks like you might kick up a fuss, they will back right off.

what the flippety heck are endocrine disrupters ? do i need one ? will i get a better signal if i have one ?

I personally would not like a mobile mast, electric sub station, gas station or petrol forecourt near my house....so I get what you are saying! I also fear what the signals,fumes etc do to your body, especially small developing children.
But they do have to put them somewhere,so why not there!.....but has anyone spoken to you about compensation for value of home after this mast goes up, as most homebuyers won't buy a property close to a mast etc?

frumpet they are agents that disrupt the endocrine (hormone) system. Nasty things like DDT and PCBs. Radio waves do not, of course, have any effect on the endocrine system.