The only party with a common sense solution to Telecom Masts!

Many of you will be aware of my October 2008 protest against an additional telecom mast in Chadwell at Redbridge College.  During my campaign Councillor Scott talked of an additional mast at the location being an innocuous event, despite the many young people that could be affected by radio frequencies....?  See article above.

Cllr Staight felt that mobile phone owners should not have permission to express views on telecoms masts and even declared the site for the mast as far away from any school...?  He obviously forget about Redbridge College, Newbridge School  and Grove Primary school all of which would be well within the 400m radius that necessitates consultation with Head Teachers and Principals.  All of whom were opposed.  See article above.

Council officers agreed with my concerns about the mast installations and declined the automatic right for the installation, placing an onus on Vodaphone to submit a planning application for the proposed installation.  This was never submitted as they could see that your Green Activists had galvanised our community against their diabolical scheme.  Most schemes pass through as residents are not aware of them and hence do not set up any opposition.   Wilson explained the potential health threats and the fact that operators are encouraged to share masts in the article above.  However, Cllr staight still felt it necessary to write again (see letter below)

Cllr Staight accused Redbridge College of opposing the local mast because of declined applications for masts at Redbrideg College twice.  His information is somewhat skewered and I should clarify that suggesting a telecoms mast on the telecoms roll-out plan does not require any preemptive consultation.  The council would have required the telecom operator to seek permission from the college as part of the proposal and installation would obviously not have been able to proceed without their permission.  However the college declined the offer both times.  Moreover, I am aware that the Principal of the college had written to Cllr Staight after this letter to clarify details.  This letter was written after Wilson had already succeeded in convincing the planning team that this proposal would not be suitable for the area.  By now Wilson was getting tired of the constant puerile attempts to justify installation of a telecoms mast, so he wrote the following letter:

After this last letter and losing in his campaign to see a telecoms mast installed at the location.  Cllr Staight finally stopped writing in to the Ilford Recorder.   Wilson faced similar opposition when he challenged the need for a second telecoms mast at the Grove Road/Chadwell Heath Lane Junction.  We created history when for the first time in Redbridge telephone operators agreed to share a mast rather than co-locating two separate masts at Grove Road.