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Phone giant 'sneaky'
Wales Created: 28 Aug 2008
Robert Dean of Wynn Avenue received a letter from planning company Mono Consultants giving residents 14 days to object to plans developed by phone giant Vodafone.

According to Mr Dean, the letter, which was sent to his home address, said the mast would be erected near the Aldi store on Abergele Road.
Furious Mr Roberts, who lives with his wife, daughter and granddaughter, stressed the mass could pose a "health hazard" for members of the community.

"They will put the phone mast up over my dead body," exclaimed Mr Roberts.
"They are trying to sneak it through. They have only informed the people who will see it. A friend of a friend died of a brain tumour and she lived near a phone mast."

Anti phone mast campaigners Mast Sanity confirmed that residents should be wary of a mast being installed.

A spokeswoman said: "They are right to be concerned. There is growing evidence of health risks concerned with phone signals below heating levels.
"In the UK the so called safety limits are ten times higher than most of the rest of the world. Here we can have 58 volts per mast, elsewhere it is just six volts per mast."

While the official National Radiological Protection Board report from June 2000 found phone mast levels did not exceed the safety limits, according to Mast Sanity thousands of academic investigations from around the world have found direct links between the electromagnetic fields generated by the masts, and health problems like breast cancer and brain tumours.

Conwy County Borough Councillor for Old Colwyn, Cllr Brian Cossey, said: "We do not want a phone mast. People will be concerned about health problems.
" The council's view is that companies should share phone masts, they should not put one near a residential area."

Keith Johnson from Moro Consultants stated that the siting of a phone mast is currently just a proposal, and a planning application will be submitted if there are no objections.
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Source: North Wales Pioneer, Anna Glover & David Waddington, 28 Aug 2008

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