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INDEX

Briefings
Letters
Reports and Reference Section
Legal Issues
Court Cases
Phone Operators
Political Sites
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
Lastest News Stories on Phone Masts
Evidence to the API inquiry into
Phone Masts Planning Procedures
Join the Planning Sanity Message Forum
Including Telecoms Forum and Calendar of Events
Mast Sanity
Phone Mast Petition
Online Version
Mast Sanity
Phone Mast Petition
Paper copy for distribution
INFO ON THE "MAKING WAVES" VIDEO
This interactive video records
a conference with its many speakers
Oxford Mast Monitor
The only site in the UK that PS knows is monitored
24 hours a day and published

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 Info Sheets
Mast Sanity Briefing - Network Rail Phone Masts

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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 comple 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 siut 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

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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
Government Response to Stewart Report
British Medical Assocation (BMA) Report on Mobile Phones
BMA update to their interim report
Royal Society of Canada Report
Condensed version of the RSC report
Dr Cherry on health effects
Dr Cherry on base stations
Lancet Report
Overview of a number of reports on the Biological effects of Mobile Phones and Base Stations (latest report checked is 05/02/03 - link to Alzheimer's disease)
Report setting out that Insurance Undertakers will no longer insure against emissions
British Library Notes on Phone Masts and Health - Useful info
Dr Hyland Report on Health ('The Physiological and Environmental Effects of Non-ionising Electromagnetic Radiation')
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)
The Existing Microwave Safety Guidelines are Inadequate
Department for Education Paper on Phone Masts
BBC News Report on the findings of Dr De Pomerai (Nemanode Worms - Biological Effect)
This FAQ addresses the issue of whether base station transmitter/antennas for cellular phones, PCS phones, mobile phones, and other types of portable transceivers are a risk to human health. (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Scottish Parliament's Transport and Environment Committee - Report on inquiry into the proposals to introduce new planning procedures for telecommunications developments published on 29 March 2000
Mobile phone use: It's time to take precautions - This paper pulls to pieces some of the studies on mobile phones and their stated safety
News report - Association of mobile phone radiation with fatigue, headache, dizziness, tension and sleep disturbance in Saudi population THE EXPOSURE OF T-LYMPHOBLASTOID LEUKAEMIA CCRF-CEM CELLS TO 900 MHZ ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MODULATES GENE EXPRESSION AFFECTING CELL PROLIFERATION, APOPTOSIS AND CELL-CYCLE CONTROL. 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
IMPORTANT PLEASE ENSURE ALL UK MEDICAL DOCTORS ARE AWARE OF AND SIGN THIS DOCUMENT
Mobile Phone Shields Report
Research on the effectiveness of mobile phone radiation shields.
Note Planning Sanity provide this report for your info, but make no comment or recommendation on its contents
Communications Liberalisation Booklet
DTI booklet setting out the history of the telecommunications licensing
Salzburg Resolution
International Conference on Cell Tower Siting Linking Science & Public Health Salzburg June 7-8, 2000
JE Moulder et al: Cell Phones and Cancer: What Is the Evidence for a Connection? Radiation Research 151(5):513-531, May 1999.
KR Foster and JE Moulder: Are mobile phones safe? IEEE Spectrum, August 2000, pp 23-28.
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.
Research and regulatory efforts on mobile phone health issues (GAO-01-545). US General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., 2001.
Mobile telephones: an evaluation of health effects.

Health Council of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2002.
Cell Phone Facts: Consumer Information on Wireless Phones, Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission.
.
JD Boice and JK McLaughlin: Epidemiological studies of cellular telephones and cancer risk -- A review. Stockholm, Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, 2002.
Commentary: Mobile Phones - Will the Golden Goose Become the Mad Cow?
Review of the Scientific Evidence for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (0?300 GHz)
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
Network News Articles on Phone Masts
MOA - Ten Commitments (Mobile Phone Operators)
Traffic Light Model
Lecture Notes Dr. Helene Irvine
Useful technical notes
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 9th June 1999
The European Commission
Communications, Green Papers and Reports
The European Commission
Green Paper on radio spectrum policy in the context of European Community policies such as telecommunications, broadcasting, transport,
and R and D COM(98)596, December 1998
The European Commission
Towards the Personal Communications Environment: Green Paper on a common approach in the field of mobile and personal Communications in the European Union
COM(94)145, April 1994

FCC Office of Engineering and Technology
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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.
Zmirou Report (France)
An Overview of Radiofrequency-Microwave Radiation Studies Relevant to Wireless Communications and Data
A briefing by the UK's Health and Safety Executive on mobile phones and health
Electromagnetic Radiation Alliance of Australia
useful site
Alan Meyer,Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone Networks -- Potential Litigation or Law Suits
Alan Meyer, Mobile Phones -- Mobile Network -- Safety
Useful site on effects of Phone Masts
Various Articles
Notes on international Conference on Communications and Health
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
Report on Why Towers Kill Birds
United States Department of Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

Raise concerns on the effect on birds
Report on the death of up to 10,000 birds in one night on one US tower
Series of Articles on the Health Effect upon Children
A Cellular Phone Tower on Ossining High School
Resolution passed by of the Los Angeles Unified School District B, June 2000

Could be adopted for use by School Governing Bodies in the UK
ICNIRP Guidelines - built on a house of cards?
Stewart Fist - writer and columnist


Some archives


(main archives)
Commons Research Paper 01/111 - Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone Masts
Latest Mast News Stories
The Trade & Industry Select Committee Tenth Report - Mobile Phone Masts
Dated report by Alan Meyer legal officer of MAUK
Summaries of views received from Local Planning Authorities and FEI on Mobile Phone Operators 10 Commitments
Letter to LPAs from Minister with results of survey
Article by NIFATT - Why 500 metres
Northern Ireland Families Against Telecommunications Transmitters
NRPB CONSULTATION DOCUMENT
Proposals for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (0 300 GHz)
Conspicuous behavioural abnormalities in a dairy cow herd near a TV and radio transmitting antenna
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)
Briefing by a firm of Property Consultants specialising in representing landowners in mast siting contracts.
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.
Report on the Human Rights Implications of the Planning Procedures and Installation of Phone Masts Prepared for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
Department of Transport - Mobile Phones Consultation
Think Road Safety Mobile Phone and Driving Leaflet
Documentation on the 3G Auction Sale
Health Department EMF Program was just released by the California Public Utilities Commission who commissioned this study
"Hidden Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation from Communication Towers, Power lines and Cell phones"(HDER)
Richard Springs Speech to the Commons on the introduction of the Telecoms Bill 2003
Hansard Report on the speeches of the debate into the Telecoms Bill 2003
Health effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields
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
Deborah Peel The Geddes Institute University of Dundee - Regulating Telecommunication Masts
European Commission - Public Health - EMF Emissions
Health Council of the Netherlands
Swedish Radiation Protection Authority's Independent Expert Group on Electromagnetic Fields
AGNIR - Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagmnetic Fields
Children and mobile phone use: Is there a health risk?
A Corporate Risk Assessment of RF Bioeffects Studies Revelant to the Use of Mobile Phones by Children: Is it really science?
Implementation of new EC Electronic Communications Directives
FURTHER ASPECTS OF A SPANISH STUDY
Presentation to Consultant Oncologists
ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF MICROWAVE EXPOSURE FROM CELLULAR PHONE BASE STATIONS: A FIRST APPROACH
Salford + - Nerve Cell damage in brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM M Phones
Study of the Health of people living in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations
MOBILE TELEPHONE BASE-STATIONS: EFFECTS ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Mast Sanity Doc - Ill Health Clusters around the UK
Mast Sanity Doc - Sunderland Health Survey
Responses of neurons to an amplitude modulated microwave stimulus
INTERFERENCE OF THE BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER FUNCTION BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
A Preliminary Study to Assess Possible Chromosomal Damage Among Users of Digital Mobile Phones
WHO Workshop - Sensitivity of Children to EMF Exposure
EXAMINATION OF MICROWAVE PENETRATION THROUGH THE HUMAN SKULL USING RAY TRACING TECHNIQUE
Parliament Research Paper
A briefing sheet for MPs on phone masts
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
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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
Implementation of EC telecoms licensing directive
The Framework Directive
Town & Country Planning (General Permited Development) Order 1995
Information on the implementation of the new EU Communications Directives - Oftel
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 Rigts for Telecoms in Scotland
NPPG19 - Radio Telecommunications

Scottish
PAN 62 - Radio Telecommunications

Scottish
Electronic Communication Code
Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Network Development
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
Office of Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
Planning Site
Review of Permitted Development Rights
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Court Judgements & Planning Decisions

Edited Decision Letter health effects of phone masts - South Ockenden - Essex
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
Yasmin Skelt Case
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)
CASE OF BALMER-SCHAFROTH AND OTHERS v. SWITZERLAND

European Court of Human Rights
Christopher Newman, et al. v. Motorola, Inc., et al.

United States District Court for the District of Maryland
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)

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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
Wokingham Borough Council Database
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Database
Amber Valley Borough Council Database
Eastbourne Borough Council
Amersham Unofficial Listing of Site's
Pendle Borough Council Mast Database

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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

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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 of Trade and Industry
Telecommunication Forum
Department of Health

Tel: 0541 555455.
(for leaflets on health
effects of base stations)
MTHR - Government Research Projects
Scottish Parliament
Planning WEB Site
The Planning Bulletin
December 1999
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
Rail Track
Government Planning (England)

Welsh Assembly Planning
Northern Ireland Planning
Scotland
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.airwaveservice.co.uk/
Dolphin (Dolphin Telecommunications Limited)
The Crescent
Jays Close
Basingstoke
RG22 4BS
Tel: 01256 811822
Fax: 01256 474537
http://www.dolphin-telecom.co.uk/
Vodaphone (Vodaphone UK Limited),
The Courtyard
2-4 London Road
Newbury
Berks
RG14 1JX
Tel: 01635 33251
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/
Hutchison 3G
Star House
20 Glenfell Road
Maidenhead
SL6 1EH
Tel: 01628 765000
Fax: 01628 765001
http://www.three.co.uk
Network Rail
40 Melton Street
London
NW1 2EE
Tel: 020 7557 8000
Fax: 020 7557 9000
http://www.railtrack.co.uk/

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Campaign Groups

Mast Sanity - National campaign for the sensible siting of phone masts
Netrail Email Discussion List This is for all issues related to Network Rail internal phone masts.
Powerwatch - Independent voice on EMF issues in the UK
FoE Scotland Mast Campaign

Friends of the Earth (FoE)

Roy+Ann Ashwood - Tamworth (fighting in Europe)
Roger Goghill One of the Good Academics WEB site
Useful listings of campaigns (Worldwide but mainly US and Canada)
Llanbadarn Fawr
Bradsey Group
Kingston Group
Council on Wireless Technology Impacts US Group
Emergency radios can jam patients' lifelines (New Scientist article on TETRA)
NIFATT
Northern Ireland Families Against Telecommunications Transmitters
New Mill - Marlboorough
Local Campaign against Network Rail Phone Masts

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Other Useful Contacts

Contact for Link a company that specialises in hidden masts and equipment for checking emissions
The Bar Pro Bono Unit
Mast Sanity Church Info Page
Crown Castle
These act as agents for Hutchison and other operators
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)
KIDS - The-Real-EMF-Effects
Canadian Campaign aimed at preventingchildrens use of mobile phones
Centre for Electromagnetic Safety
Neil Cherry Research Foundation

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Political Party Phone Mast Policy/Sites

Green Party Phone Mast Policy
Liberal Democrat Phone Mast Comment
Labour Party Phone Mast Policy - A search of the site brings up no phone mast items
Conservative Party Phone Mast Comment
Draft Conservative Party General Election Policy on Masts
Planning Sanity Response to Tory Draft Policy

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TETRA ISSUES

Barry Trower - TETRA Report
Barrie Trower TETRA letter
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) (formally Medical Devises Agency) Report on TETRA Handsets

Note: to get the summary report a site search for 'mobile phones' is needed, the full report costs 49.95. A further search with the criteria 'TETRA' brings up another 2 reports.
Police Federation Policy on TETRA
Police Federation Magazine Articles - December 2002 - AIRWAVE CONFERENCE HELPS CLEAR THE AIR
Alternatives to TETRA
Commons Public Accounts Select Committee 64th Report (2001/2002) - Public Private Partnerships: AIRWAVE
Commons Public Accounts Select Committee 64th Report - PDF Version
Mast Sanity Listing of TETRA News Stories
AIRWAVE MM02 APPROVED USERS LIST ("SHARERS LIST") APRIL 2002 APPLICATIONS - DECISION
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
Protect Sussex From TETRA - Health Diary
AIRWAVE MM02 APPROVED USERS LIST ("SHARERS LIST") APRIL 2002 APPLICATIONS - DECISION
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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