Phone mast bid is rejected again (From Thurrock Gazette)
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Phone mast bid is rejected again
3:10pm Saturday 2nd June 2012 in News
A PHONE company’s bid to erect a mast near houses in Chafford Hundred has been refused.
O2 wanted to install at 12.5m mast and cabinet in Flemming Road.
The application is the fifth made by O2 in the town which has been rejected by the council.
Tory ward councillor Tunde Ojetola said he hopes the company gets the message now.
He said: “This is a victory for the residents and councillors who have successfully campaigned that O2 should not locate masts next to residential properties and schools.
“This is the fifth attempt by O2 to install a mast next to residential properties, and this is their fifth refusal. We hope they get the message this time.”
Thurrock Council is not allowed to object to the development of a phone mast, but it can refuse the design and siting of the mast.
A spokesman said: “In this case the proposed mast would be dominant and incongruous in the street scene.
“In addition, its siting close to houses in Swiftsure Road, and other homes, would constitute a dominant and overbearing feature, to the detriment of the outlook of the occupiers.”
Comments(14)
rocket1
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6:27pm Sat 2 Jun 12
RobF4
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1:03pm Sun 3 Jun 12
It is the community that is against this several meters from homes and schools.
If you have issues with other areas of Thurrock have a moan at the local councillors in those areas.
rocket1
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3:39pm Sun 3 Jun 12
RobF4
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4:29pm Sun 3 Jun 12
Like most people, I purchased a home without a mast next to it, so why should i then suffer when they decide to install a mast. I'll support anyone that wishes to stand up for their rights.
I would even support you if the system was to come along and walk all over you. The issue here is the telephone companies unless challenged can install these where they like if not challenged.
This is nothing to do with chafford hundred, this is to do with knowing your rights to live in the home you decided to purchase without a mast next door.
rocket1
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5:42pm Sun 3 Jun 12
RobF4
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5:52pm Sun 3 Jun 12
I'm against these being put outside of anyones homes.
Bernard 87
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7:53pm Sun 3 Jun 12
A.N.Other
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8:58pm Sun 3 Jun 12
RobF4 wrote:Yet when he was in charge of council housing in Thurrock he had no quams with mobile phone mast equipment being placed around the top of the boroughs tower blocks so hundreds of residents are living with them, sometimes just above their heads.
Tunde is doing exactly what he has been elected to do, represent Chafford Hundred.
It is the community that is against this several meters from homes and schools.
If you have issues with other areas of Thurrock have a moan at the local councillors in those areas.
One rule for the posh folk in Chafford andother rule for mere council tenants.
RobF4
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9:15pm Sun 3 Jun 12
A.N.Other wrote:I agree with you, no community should have to suffer having these masts forced on them. I cannot excuse what has happened in other areas.
RobF4 wrote:Yet when he was in charge of council housing in Thurrock he had no quams with mobile phone mast equipment being placed around the top of the boroughs tower blocks so hundreds of residents are living with them, sometimes just above their heads.
Tunde is doing exactly what he has been elected to do, represent Chafford Hundred.
It is the community that is against this several meters from homes and schools.
If you have issues with other areas of Thurrock have a moan at the local councillors in those areas.
One rule for the posh folk in Chafford andother rule for mere council tenants.
Don’t forget he is a politician, and like all politicians he will always tow the party line when told to do so. It does not matter what party you belong too, the party line is always to be followed.
It has been the community that has come out against this recent request for masts, and the community that has one. If Tunde was not to work with the community he will find out fast that the community would not be supporting him the next time elections come up.
I’m not posh, work very hard for a living to have the best for my children, do I need to be tarred with the same brush. I believe in the greater good and the needs of the many out way the needs of the few.
SaveOurStanford
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12:29am Tue 5 Jun 12
Oh and there is 3 other companies that piggyback O2s network so tens of thousands of residents have just have to poke up with 1bar signal or no reception cos of Chafford Hundred ! Clever ! NOT
rocket1
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3:39pm Tue 5 Jun 12
SaveOurStanford
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11:00pm Tue 5 Jun 12
rocket1 wrote:Exactly ! I am cofused with the wanna-be middle class chafricans ? They want schools but they dont any more building done! They want better broadband, better signals, better roads but you cant even do a survey oposition !!! Who do they think they are ? Its only an old Chalk quary not a gold mine ! Get over yourselfs you are not camerons neighbour so wake up and smell the grays polution.
they want the signal,its just they want the masts placed just outside of chavrica outside of someone elses house.
A.N.Other
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7:58am Wed 6 Jun 12
SaveOurStanford wrote:There wasn't a single protest from any councillors or residents when the planning application for a mobile phone mast went in for a mast at the Pilgrims Lane roundabout.
rocket1 wrote:Exactly ! I am cofused with the wanna-be middle class chafricans ? They want schools but they dont any more building done! They want better broadband, better signals, better roads but you cant even do a survey oposition !!! Who do they think they are ? Its only an old Chalk quary not a gold mine ! Get over yourselfs you are not camerons neighbour so wake up and smell the grays polution.
they want the signal,its just they want the masts placed just outside of chavrica outside of someone elses house.
Perhaps because they built it next to the gypsy site could explain why not one Chafford Hundred resident or a single Chafford Hundred councillor couldn't be bothered to object to this mast?
Yet anywhere else on or near Chafford then its a health hazard or an eyesore.
Some residents are more worthy than others.
A.N.Other says...
3:59pm Sat 2 Jun 12
When Cllr Ojetoal was in charge of council housing in Thurrock, and seeing his concern about mobile phone masts, why did he allow mobile phone masts on all the tower blocks in Thurrock?
Obvioulst didn't care about the welfare of those mere council tenants.