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PLANNING SANITY PHONE MAST FORUM
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.
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 |
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 |
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) |
US Gov - Centre for Devices and Radiological Health |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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 9th June 1999 |
The European Commission
Communications, Green Papers and Reports |
| 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 |
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. |
United States Department of Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service
Raise concerns on the effect on birds |
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 |
| 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) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Implementation of new EC Electronic Communications Directives |
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 |
Deborah Peel The Geddes Institute University of Dundee - Regulating Telecommunication Masts |
The genetic and cyotogenetic aspects of RF-fields effects Cost 281 Programme "Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health" STUDIES |
Documentation on the 3G Auction Sale |
| "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 |
AGNIR - Health Effects from Mobile Phones and other Radiofrequency Sources |
| 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.
Court Judgements & Planning Decisions
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.
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
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
Phone Operators and Industry WEB Sites
Campaign Groups
Other Useful Contacts
TETRA ISSUES
Last Updated March 2007
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