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Charity gives up £68,000 mast pay-out

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Published Date: 12 August 2008
Being a good neighbour has cost a charity £68,000.
Galloway's Society for the Blind has pulled out of a plan to erect a mobile phone mast after a barrage of complaints from residents living nearby.

The charity say the action will cost them £68,000 – and phone company O2 will still go ahead with their plans on a different site.

The mobile phone giant had planned to install a 25 metre mast in the grounds of Galloway's Howick Park Avenue headquarters in Penwortham.

But the proposals will now not go ahead on the site following a barrage of objections, including a 100 signature petition, from neighbouring properties.

Peter Turner, director of the charity, said being a good neighbour had cost them tens of thousands of pounds in lost revenue.

He said: "We've lost out on £68,000 but the hassle was too much.

"There is going to be a mast in this area so we would rather benefit from the money as a charity."

Neighbours around the Howick Park Avenue site have said they were pleased with the Galloway's decision, but would fight any other mast applications in the surrounding area.

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  • Last Updated: 12 August 2008 10:28 AM
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Ribbleton,

12/08/2008 12:08:06
Text the word "Hypocrite" to each of the objectors. Standard charges apply.
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NH,

12/08/2008 12:32:43
they can put it in my garden for £38k, i dont care how many petition it :)
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Preston lass,

Preston 12/08/2008 12:48:30
Morals before money. Well done, Galloways!
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ThePrestonOne,

Preston 12/08/2008 14:11:30
Yep, they'll all own mobiles and bemoan their provider when they cannot get a signal somewhere else around the city. A bunch of Not In My Back Yarders.
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blackpool paul,

preston moved back for now 12/08/2008 17:42:36
NH 3^ i will beat your deal they can stick it in my garden for £10k.... it look good with lights wrapt round :)
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K Darragh,

leyland 13/08/2008 00:22:06
Penwortham Knobheads,let them pay the lost monies!!Its private land....just take the money...sod em all!!
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K Darragh,

leyland 13/08/2008 00:26:05
Any response Howick snobs?Do you actually support Galloway...?Contributions,attending open days...etc? Objectors speak up or shut up!!Makes my blood boil...SPEAK UP!!
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nikonov,

Preston 13/08/2008 18:15:30
..and think how much the residents have potentially saved the Society in damages and lost court cases when the ill health links to masts are all proven true and the legal wrangling begins. I suspect that the £68,000 will be a drop in the ocean then!

..and how they come up with £68,000 is beyond me, I hear that the revenue is a sixth of that at best.

As for residents and mobile ownership - they OPTED IN to owning a mobile and paying the tariff.
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nikonov,

Preston 13/08/2008 18:25:35
..would you opt in to having a mast near you I wonder, with the new evidence coming into the public domain? I suggest you do a net search and start with these three - get some facts straight before ranting and calling people "knob heads":

1 - A general Google on "The Stewart Report"

2 - And the best so far (in THE TIMES no less):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1655012.ece

3. http://www.scram.uk.com

..good science takes at least 20 years to come up with full and comprehensive data about a subject (i.e. to prove that masts ARE safe), and yet the mobile industry is nowhere NEAR that yet.

They said asbestos was safe and look at the pay-outs from court cases with that lovely stuff.

If anything, the residents may just have stopped cancer clusters and compensation claims in their objections.

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nikonov,

Preston 13/08/2008 18:35:55
..and on the comment "just take the money...sod em all!!" - if you want to get into the money side of it, OK...

Picture yourself getting a nice planning notice through YOUR door explaining a lovely trellis with antenna will be going up near where YOU live. Hardly going to help your property price is it? You have two houses to view, one with a mast near it and one without. BE HONEST. Which would you buy knowing the potential scientific findings that are now coming out (see links above) about masts and that masts are known to reduce property value when situated near them. This last scenario is even better thought through if you have kids. Would YOU risk their health? I didn't think so.

Go residents I say. Health risks and all other reasons make their cause just. Masts are needed, no one is saying they aren't, but for God's sake, site them away from people.
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