Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
A 15m mobile phone mast to be erected in residential Harringay street- LITTLE GUY WON!!
Vodafone is attempting to rush-through a planning application to position a 15m mobilephone mast (with its five attendant cabinets) in the Gardens.
The mast will not add to the coverage in the area, but rather be a substitute for the masts in the St Ann's hospital grounds. Given the development planned in that area, the owners of the land have cancelled their agreement with Vodafone.
There is some fairly strong legislation in place which heavily favours the mobile phone operators and, as such, the current application is not really an 'application'.
It is a 'Prior Notification' of their intention to build the mast. In theory, as long as Vodafone ticks the right boxes and fill in the right forms, the Council is in a difficult position if it wants to defend residents.
In this case, the 'consultation' has been farcical and the reasoning for selecting the site is specious, at best.
There are VERY few such masts placed in residential streets in this borough, and allowing this one could open the door for Vodafone and other operators to put one in your street.
We need numbers to put pressure on the Council to reject this notification.
Please object here in the next couple of days. Submissions need to be received before the 18th. Just a few lines, or copy/paste one of the other submissions.
Zena is helping as a local Councillor, but there also needs to be a strong response from individuals.
Tags for Forum Posts: O2, Vodafone, mast, mobilephone, planning
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I do notice that cellphone reception is patchiest in the most nimby areas of London. Shows it is possible to object...
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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Thanks for flagging this up Phil - I'll get on to it as well.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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This won't improve coverage in the area, apparently. Plus it's a bit off if this has been 'rushed through' with no consultation with residents.
And to prevent this from happening:
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Can we please have an O2 mast at the top of Hewitt Rd?
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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May i offer you a fake tree to disguise it that we don't really want up here in the north?
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Last chance to submit objections about this. I'm going to.
Yes i have a mobile phone and i know these things have to go somewhere, but this doesn't seem like a very carefully chosen site. If you look at the supplementary information in the planning application they list a whole bunch of sites that were short listed as ok spots for it but it sounds like all they did was write a single letter to the registered land owner, didn't get any response, so ruled out the location. I think they need to try a bit harder than that with some of those other sites in the more commercial and industrial areas before putting something like this in a residential area right in the middle of the view out of a bunch of houses windows.
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