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PLANNING SANITY PHONE MAST FORUM

INDEX
Briefings	Letters	Reports and Reference Section	Legal Issues	Court Cases
Phone Operators	Media Releases	Government Departments	Campaign Groups	Other Contacts
TETRA SECTION	Phone Mast Planning Appeal decisions Jan 2001 to Jan 2003	Planning and Legal Mast FAQ	Suitable documents to support case to Planning Decision Makers	Databases of Mobile Phone Masts
Glossary of Mast Terms	Mast Sanity Phone Mast Petition Online Version	Mast Sanity Phone Mast Petition Paper copy for distribution	Oxford Mast Monitor The only site in the UK that PS knows was monitoring masts. Stopped in 2006

Please always first refer to the Planning and Legal Mast FAQ
before asking for advise as the answer may already be included in that document.

BRIEFINGS
Short Briefing on Phone Masts	Opposing Phone Mast Planning Applications	Briefing on court decisions on Health issues	The Planning Process for the new Broadband System	Public Inquiry Forum
Electronic Communication Code and Code Regulations	Code 17 removal of Masts through the Code process	Code 16 Compensation for Injurous Affection to Neighbouring Land	Planning Sanity Briefing on the Communication Act 2003	Briefing on the A.2(4)(b) loophole
Briefing on Temporary Mast Installations	Briefing on Church Installations	Briefing on Public Liability Insurance for Telecoms Installations	Briefing on the Ombudsman - including the Swindon decision	Briefing on Operators Traffic Light Scheme is being prepared
Briefing on the effect of the courts ruling on 15m masts	Briefing on the effect of an operator not having a full lease on the site	Proposed Council Mast Policy Doc Including Draft Supplementary Planning Guide	Revocation and Discontinuance of Use	Depreciation in Property Value as a result of Adverse Developments
Short briefing on a potential planning structure for developments where there is a potential health threat	Briefing on Network Rail Installations	Briefing on Small Antenna (de minimis)	Potential for legal action by those suffering adverse health effects from telecom installations	Welsh Procedures and Legislation
Scottish Procedures and Legislation	Northern Ireland Procedures and Legislation	Briefing on Emergency Installations

MAST SANITY BRIEFING PAPERS
Mast Sanity - Network Rail Phone Masts

LETTERS Please note the letters provided in this section are intended for your use, and can be freely adopted to suit (subject to our normal terms and conditions, which are set out in our legal notice). However, if you use a letter with Planning Sanity headed paper then please ensure that we receive a copy of the letter, in order that we can pass on any replies - by email by post to Planning Sanity, 56 Kimmeridge Ave, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, BH12 3NX. Planning Sanity can supply personalised letters to Planning Departments, Landowners, Operators and others. A minimum donation of £10 should be made for each letter compiled. Just complete this form, or send us details via an email then make your donation. The completed letter will be sent first to you for confirmation that it suites your intended need, upon confirmation we will then send the letter to the respective recipient. NOTE SOME OF THESE LETTERS HAVE NOT YET BEEN CONVERTED TO HTML (or PDF) IF THE LINK DOES NOT WORK TRY THE WORD VERSION.
Short Standard Letter	Full Standard Letter	Standard Letter for Use in a Code 17 Objection (Sch 2)	Letter to Land Owner	Temporary Masts
Letter to Local Planning Authorities setting out the legal position on health	Letter to Local Planning Authorities On Rail Track Installations	Letter to Local Planning Authorities Enforcement action for Prior Approval Masts over 15 Metres	Series of letters to Operators, Landowners, CofE, and Govenment Departments warning of the consequences of not acting on health concerns	Standard Letter on the A.2(4)(b) loophole
Standard Letter on Small Antenna	Standard Letter for Masts on Church Land	Letter Suitable for Sending to Ombudsman	Standard Letter for Sending to Operators on the Traffic Light Scheme THIS LETTER IS WAITING TO BE COMPILED	Letter to DTI requesting prosecution for failing to affix Sch2 notice Still being compiled)
Letter requesting that the Council discontinue the use of a site for a phone mast	Letter requesting that the Council revoke planning/prior approval permission for a phone mast	Another standard letter	Letter questioning validity of prior approval decision when lease of building does not allow commercial use	Letter commenting on the change of policy of Brighton and Hove City Council
Letter to local authority who were reluctant to let local community comment on a prior approval application	Letter to local authority setting out that a policy decision not to take health into account would be unlawful	Letter setting out the legal position of temporary installations	Letter to council requesting that a permission be revoked due to the closeness of the mast to a childrens play area	Letter to local authority on a specific complaint of maladministration, forewarning of a complaint to the Ombudsman
Letter to Property Department of Council on aspects relating to the lease on council owned land, and the failure of a sports club to first obtain permission from council to grant lease to phone operator.	Letter from CfPS to LPAs on their failure to notify a decision within the 56 Day statutory period.	Letter to Waldon Telecom setting out law relating to emergency mast installations	Letter to LPA requesting Enforcement action due to unlawful development

MAST SANITY LETTERS
This is a large selection of mast letters that can be adapted to suit your campaign

The following letters have been supplied by local campaigns, please adapt them to suit your own circumstances. Please let us have copies of your own letters for inclusion in this section.
Letter to the Planning Inspectorate for an Appeal Against an Orange Mast	Letter from a resident to other residents asking them to object to an installation	Letter from local resident to schhool requesting they support objection to mast	First Draft of Statement of Case by Bardsey Mast Action to Public Inquiry
Letter of objection to Planning Inspectorate from member of the public	Letter from local resident to MP requesting support	Letter for general distribution where antenna, but not equipment cabin comes within remit of A.2(4)(b) loophole	Letter objecting to extention by 5 metres of an existing mast

Reports and Research Section NOTE: The following reports are from a number of sources, they are included to give people the opportunity of reviewing as many academic reports as possible, some reports may suggest a health risk, others may dispute that there is such a risk, it is for you the reader to form your own view, Planning Sanity makes no comment on whether there is or is not a risk
DUTCH REPORT REPORT ON THE HEALTH EFFECTS FROM 3G MOBILE PHONES BASE STATIONS	Manifesto statement by 8 leading European environmental organisations for Euro Elections 2004	News Report on leading cancer specialists Professor Sir David Lane and his equally qualified wife Lady Birgitte Lane stating that TETRA is a health threat	Department of Health Mobile Phone Report	Stewart Report
Cost 281 - Report critizing Dr Hylands Report	Dr Hylands Response to Cost 281 Report	Cost 281 Conference July 2003	Dr Hyland Health Report (How Exposure to GSM & TETRA Base-station Radiation can Adversely Affect Humans)	Department for Education Paper on Phone Masts
BBC News Report on the findings of Dr De Pomerai (Nemanode Worms - Biological Effect)	Research and regulatory efforts on mobile phone health issues (GAO-01-545). US General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., 2001.	News report - Association of mobile phone radiation with fatigue, headache, dizziness, tension and sleep disturbance in Saudi population	LABORATORY OF ELECTRONICS - TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS - Publications and Research Reports	Environmental Heath Issues of Radiofrequency and Microwave exposure
BBC Media Release highlighting number of telecom masts close to schools and the lack of consultation	Freiburger Appeal	Salzburg Resolution	International Conference on Cell Tower Siting Linking Science & Public Health Salzburg June 7-8, 2000	Biomedical Applications and Health Effects of Nonionizing Electromagnetic Fields - Research and other papers by Prof. Kenneth Foster
H Frumkin, A Jacobson et al: Cellular phones and risk of brain tumors. CA Cancer J Clin 51:137-141, 2001.	Frequently asked questions about the safety of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave emissions from transmitters and facilities regulated by the FCC	Exposure of the General Public to Radio Waves near Microcell and Picocell Base Stations for Mobile Telecommunications NRPB REPORT	Advice on Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (0?300GHz) NRPB Report	WHO International EMF Project
Harrow Local Authority Survey Results	RA - Online Data Base of Sites (SiteFinder)	THE MELATONIN HYPOTHESIS	MOA - Ten Commitments (Mobile Phone Operators)	Traffic Light Model
Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service	Microwave News Online Magazine	Roger Goghill One of the Good Academics WEB site	House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology - Minutes of Evidence 9^th June 1999	The European Commission Communications, Green Papers and Reports
FCC Office of Engineering and Technology	Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)	International Telecommunications Union	The UK Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)	Wireless Information Resource Centre - WIRC
An investigation of the safety implications of wireless communications in vehicles.	An Overview of Radiofrequency-Microwave Radiation Studies Relevant to Wireless Communications and Data	Directive 2004/40/EC on the exposure to workers to the risks arising from physical agents (Electromagnetic Fields) - A Paper by: Robert Parkes	Useful site on effects of Phone Masts	Various Articles
List of Health and Other Telecom Research Papers	Another list of useful links to reports	Radio Wave Packet - ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG - President, Cellular Phone Taskforce - September 2001 List of biological effects with the report reference	Reports on effects of masts on birds etc.	Series of Articles on the Health Effect upon Children
Commons Research Paper 01/111 - Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone Masts	The Trade & Industry Select Committee Tenth Report - Mobile Phone Masts	Article by NIFATT - Why 500 metres Northern Ireland Families Against Telecommunications Transmitters	Response by Dr Roger Coghill to the NRPB Consultation	Commons Select Committee Thirtieth Report - The Auction of Radio Spectrum for the Third Generation of Mobile Telephones
Report of Russian Scientists with references to the Russian equivelent of the ICNIRP guidelines (more strict)	Operators Risk Assessment and PR handbook aimed at their Site Aquisition Agents and PR staff In other words the Operators bible on how to deal with local communities.	Think Road Safety Mobile Phone and Driving Leaflet	Salford + - Nerve Cell damage in brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM M Phones	EMR Network
Pitt's Cancer Institute warns staff about possible cell phone risks	Mast Sanity Doc - Ill Health Clusters around the UK	Mast Sanity Doc - Sunderland Health Survey	How one family has taken the phone mast issue to the European Commission	02 leaflet setting out their answer on the safety of Mobile Phones
The effect on milk yields and other health concerns in cattle The Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy at the Veterinary Faculty of Hanover	Responses of neurons to an amplitude modulated microwave stimulus	INTERFERENCE OF THE BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER FUNCTION BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS	Effects of high- and low-frequency electromagnetic fields on embryonic development	The FGF contribution to the research on biological effects of EMF (Newsletter 03/2007E)
Effects of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Electromagnetic Fields on the Blood-Brain Barrier in Vitro	A Preliminary Study to Assess Possible Chromosomal Damage Among Users of Digital Mobile Phones	WHO Workshop - Sensitivity of Children to EMF Exposure	FURTHER ASPECTS OF A SPANISH STUDY	Presentation to Consultant Oncologists
DTI CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS FOR THE SITING OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ON GOVERNMENT OCCUPIED PREMISES	ICNIRP STATEMENT RELATED TO THE USE OF SECURITY AND SIMILAR DEVICES UTILIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS Health Physics August 2004, Volume 87	London Hazard Center Fact Sheet EMFs - Electromagnetic fields	The genetic and cyotogenetic aspects of RF-fields effects Cost 281 Programme "Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health" STUDIES	"Hidden Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation from Communication Towers, Power lines and Cell phones"(HDER)
Hansard Report on the speeches of the debate into the Telecoms Bill 2003	European Commission - Public Health - EMF Emissions	Health Council of the Netherlands	Ofcom Code FAQ	Ofcom explaination of phone mast jargon
Ofcom Site Finder FAQ	Ofcom Glossary of Phone Mast Terms

Legal Issues

Please note not all these legal links will be relevant, they are included for completeness, the most important being PPG8 and the GPDO. Others may not be online, anyone wanting to volunteer to scan them would be appreciated, in order that we can make them available to others. Also look at the Planning Sanity Legal Forum, particularly for Planning Policy Guidance Notes, which may be relevant to Mast applications, such as PPG2 'Green Belts', or PPG24 'Noise'. Documents that are out of print may be available from main libraries, or university law libraries.

Planning Policy Guidance Note 8 (PPG8)	UPDATED VERSION BY PLANNING SANITY OF THE Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2001 (GPDO)	Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2001 (GPDO)	Telecommunication Act 1984 - As amended by the Communication Act 2003	Review of Permitted Development Rights Annexes 1-10
Town & Country Planning (General Permited Development) Order 1995	Ofcom - Wireless Telegraphy Act Licences (Terms, Provisions and Limitations)	List Public Inquiry Decisions	Electronic Communications Code ( Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003	TAN 19 - Telecommunications This is the Welsh version of PPG8
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002 (GPDO)	Circular 5/2001 - Explains Permitted Development Rights for Telecoms in Scotland	Circular 3/2004 - Provides guidance on the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (Scotland) Order 2004	NPPG19 - Radio Telecommunications Scottish	PAN 62 - Radio Telecommunications Scottish
Electronic Communication Code	Communication Act 2003	PPS10 Northern Ireland - Planning Policy Statement - Telecommunications	Draft Development Control Advise Note 14 - Northern Ireland - Siting and Design of Radio Telecommunication Equipment	Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001
Planning (General Development) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003	The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2001	The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2001	The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2001	The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002
Dept. Communities and Local Government Planning Site

Court Judgements & Planning Decisions

Newport county Borough Council v The Secretary of State for Wales and Browning Ferris Environmental Services Ltd	Regina v Tandridge District Council, ex party Al Fayed	Wandsworth LBC v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions [2003] EWHC 622 (Admin)	Sarah Lloyd-Jones and Ors v T Mobile (UK) Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 1162 (31 July 2003)	Davis and Anor v Balfour Kilpatrick Ltd. and Ors [2002] EWCA Civ 736 (23rd May, 2002)
TELECOM SECURICOR CELLULAR RADIO LIMITED v. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES v. BRECON BEACONS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY [2000] EWHC Admin 412 (2nd November, 2000)	IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW R v. STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS DISTRICT COUNCIL and TELECOM SECURICOR CELLULAR RADIO LIMITED ex parte KAY BARTLAM [1998] EWCA Civ 813 (11th May, 1998)	T-Mobile (UK) Ltd. and Ors, R (on the application of) v Competition Commission and Anor [2003] EWHC 1555 (Admin) (27 June 2003)	The Queen On the application of BT3G LIMITED and OTHERS v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY [2001] EWCA Civ 1448 (17th October, 2001)	MacPherson v. City Edinburgh Council & Ors [2003] ScotCS 36 (18 February 2003)
Phillips v First Secretary of State & Ors [2003] EWHC 2415 (Admin) (22 October 2003)	Orange PCS v Bradford (Valuation Officer) [2004] EWCA Civ 155 (17 February 2004)	Harrogate High Court judgement	Harrogate Court of Appeal Judgement	Leger-Davey & Jane Lee v First Secretary of State & Ors [2004] EWHC 512 (Admin) (01 March 2004) (Two cases combined)
Leger-Davey and Harrison v First Secretary of State & Ors (Court of Appeal decision)	R (Heather Richards) v. South Bucks District Council 56 Day Case	Bardsey Court of Appeal Judgement	Petursson v Hutchison 3g UK Ltd [2005] EWHC 920 (TCC) (Code 17/Health Case)	Murphy, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 85 (20 December 2004)
Airwave MM02 Ltd v First Secretary of State and Ors [2005] EWHC 1701 (Admin) (30 June 2005)

Phone Mast Data Bases

This is a new section if you find any local authority databases of telecom installations please send the links to Planning Sanity. If your local planning authority does not already have a database remind them of the obligation to do so contained in PPG8.

OFCOM Site Finder

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Database

Eastbourne Borough Council

Amersham Unofficial Listing of Site's

Pendle Borough Council Mast Database

Mast Media Releases

Please note that many media releases were also jointly issued by Mast Sanity and Planning Sanity these can be viewed on the Mast Sanity Media Forum

Winchester Court Case	TOP UK PHONE MAST ACTIVISTS MEET IN MANCHESTER	CAMPAIGN WELCOMES SURVEY FINDINGS	MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS IGNORE SELF CONTROL PROMISES	TETRA DANGERS AT POLICE FEDERATION AGM
CfPS PUBLISH CAMPAIGN PACK	SCHOOL SET TO BE OVERSHADOWED BY TELECOMMUNICATION MAST	NEW RADIO SYSTEM SEES POLICE DROP IN DROVES	STEWART EXPRESSES CONTINUED CONCERNS ON HEALTH

CONTACTS

Some of the contacts details have still to be added, especially those for postal addresses, this will be taken care of asap and a mark 2 version published. In the mean time if you need details please contact us. The Steward Report contains a very useful and extensive list of reports.

Government Departments and Quangos

International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)	Department for Business Innovation & Skills	Department of Health Tel: 0541 555455. (for leaflets on health effects of base stations)	MTHR - Government Research Projects	OFCOM
Scottish Parliament Media Release New Scottish Mast Regulations	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 27 Nov 1997 (pt 6)	Police Federation	Health Protection Agency Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0RQ Tel: 01235 831600 - Fax: 01235 833891 Email: rpd@hpa-rp.org.uk or email the Non-ionising Radiation Servicesnir@hpa.org.uk	Network Rail
Government Planning (England)	Welsh Assembly Planning	Northern Ireland Planning	Scotish Government Planning Site	Health Protection Agency

Phone Operators and Industry WEB Sites

MOA Mobile Operators Association Russell Square House 10-12 Russell Square London WC1B 5EE Tel: 020 7331 2015 Fax: 020 7331 2047 Email:info@ukmoa.org	T-Mobile (UK), Elstree Tower Borehamwood Hertfordshire WD6 1DT. Tel: 0208 214 2121 WEB http://www.t-mobile.co.uk	Orange, (Orange Personal Communications limited), St Johns Court Great Park Road Almondsbury Park Bradley Stoke Bristol BF32 4QJ. Tel: 01454 624600 WEB http://www.orange.co.uk
O2, 260 Bath Road Slough Berks SL1 4DX Tel: 01753 628000 http://www.o2.co.uk/ o2 Airwave http://www.airwavesolutions.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx	Vodaphone (Vodaphone UK Limited), The Courtyard 2-4 London Road Newbury Berks RG14 1JX Tel: 01635 33251 Vodafone Home Page	Hutchison 3G Star House 20 Glenfell Road Maidenhead SL6 1EH Tel: 01628 765000 Fax: 01628 765001 http://www.three.co.uk/Home
Network Rail Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG Tel: 020 3356 9595 Fax: 020 3356 9245 http://www.networkrail.co.uk/

Campaign Groups

Mast Sanity - National campaign for the sensible siting of phone masts	Powerwatch - Independent voice on EMF issues in the UK	Roy+Ann Ashwood - Tamworth (fighting in Europe)	Roger Goghill One of the Good Academics WEB site	Kingston Group
NIFATT Northern Ireland Families Against Telecommunications Transmitters

Other Useful Contacts

Contact for Link a company that specialises in hidden masts and equipment for checking emissions	The Bar Pro Bono Unit	Neil Cherry Research Foundation	INTELLECT - Trade body	Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association
Swedish Mobile Telecommunications Industry (MTB)	Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA)	Canada Wireless Telecommunications Association	Mobile Communications Forum (FMK)(German text)	Centre for Electromagnetic Safety

TETRA ISSUES

Barry Trower - TETRA Report	Barrie Trower TETRA letter	Police Federation Policy on TETRA	Powerwatch on TETRA	Commons Public Accounts Select Committee 64th Report (2001/2002) - Public Private Partnerships: AIRWAVE
Commons Public Accounts Select Committee 64th Report - PDF Version	NRPB (Government) - Possible Health Effects from Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA): Report of an Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation	Response to the 02 Briefing paper on TETRA	Joint Mast Sanity and Planning Sanity Briefing on TETRA	News Report on leading cancer specialists Professor Sir David Lane and his equally qualified wife Lady Birgitte Lane stating that TETRA is a health threat
Report into death of PC Neil Dring

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Last Updated March 2007

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PLANNING SANITY PHONE MAST FORUM

INDEX

BRIEFINGS

MAST SANITY BRIEFING PAPERS

LETTERS

MAST SANITY LETTERS

The following letters have been supplied by local campaigns, please adapt them to suit your own circumstances. Please let us have copies of your own letters for inclusion in this section.

Reports and Research Section