Telephone mast update

Hi
So here is the latest.

First, I suggest that everyone against a 13.4 metre high Mobile Telephone mast pumping out high intensity 3g radiation being placed at the bottom of Mayfield Avenue should in the first instance write your objection to:

Mr D Glover
Assistent Director, Planning and Transportation
PO Box 53
Civic Centre
Silver Street
Enfield
Middlesex
EN1 3XE
Ref: PA/05/0002
APPLICANT: Vodafone
Site opposite, 55, HIGH STREET, LONDON N14 6EB
Installation of a telecommunications monopole to a maximum of 13.4 metres (including antennae) with equipment cabinet at base.

Second, at the last local forum I had a chat with both Terry Smith and Edward Smith concerning this mast application and expressed my deep concern.

On my behalf Terry decided to dig further into the issue as both he and Edward stated that normally the Conservative controlled council would be against the siting of such a mast in residential areas.

Terry discovered that the application had been withdrawn "on a technicality" but felt it would be re-submitted. Both of us were suspicious of why it had been withdrawn in the first place and Terry investigated further.

He found out the following:
1. The site in question is the small piece of open land opposite the auction room on the side of the road where the Woolpack pub is.
2. Vodafone identified the land as a "good" spot and applied.
3. They were then informed that as the land was council owned the application was unlikely to succeed.
4. Somehow they were then tipped off that the Planning office had earmarked that particular piece of land to be disposed of, ie sold to a private concern.
5. Rather than have their application refused Vodafone decided to withdraw their application and wait for the land to be sold and then re-apply after negotiating with the new owner.

If the disposal had happened the councils ability to refuse the application would have been seriously diluted as national policy is to accept such applications unless there is a sufficiently strong public objection.

Terry was annoyed that the disposal proposal had slipped through with minimum notice and to cut a long story short, he raised the issue with a few high ranking individuals, pointing out the residential location, already existing complaints (yours truly and others (thankyou!) ) and upcoming elections as reasons enough to kill the disposal proposal which was earmarked to be rubber stamped at a council meeting on the 15th of this month.

Terry now tells me that the disposal has been stopped and so the land remains council property and therefore any re-submission of the original Vodafone application will be refused.

This is great news and Terry is a bloody star. However, I still suggest that as everything I have just said is unofficial, if you are against this you write an objection as soon as possible to Mr Glover.
cheers
Anthony