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Angus:
Scotland Created: 17 Jul 2005
Carnoustie:
Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel drops plan for mast

Telecommunications firm O2 Airwave has abandoned controversial plans to erect two flagpole antennae on top of the Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel.
Angus councillors had recently admitted defeat in the fight against TETRA technology being placed on top of the hotel.
O2 Airwave gained planning permission for the site after winning the backing of the Scottish Executive following the local authority’s failure to determine its planning application last year.
But the company revealed this week the hotel site was “no longer a plausible proposition” and it had identified a new site near Pitskelly Farm.
Ryan Stinson, acquisition agent for Airwave, said, “After many months of frustrating investigations, we believe we have, in consultation with the local planning department, discovered a new, even more suitable site that not only provides the necessary radio coverage but also offers little visual impact on the residents of Carnoustie.”
The proposed location of the 30-metre lattice mast is within a band of trees on the farm’s southern boundary.
“The trees surrounding the site are approximately 25-27 metres in height and will provide screening of the structure when viewed from Carnoustie and the surrounding area,” Mr Stinson said.
He said the site was surrounded by agricultural land and would offer very little visual intrusion to surrounding properties.
Telegraph and Post 1/6/05

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Scotland Created: 17 Jul 2005
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Ayrshire:
Scotland Created: 17 Jul 2005
Ayrshire
Mast looks set to get the green light

SOUTH Ayrshire Council’s planning committee were expected to approve plans for a Vodafone communications mast in Ayr’s Doonholm Road at a meeting on Tuesday.
The 18 metre high mast satisfies guidelines guarding the public from safety issues such as radiation but attracted a handful of objections from local residents.
Concerns were also raised over the proposed mast’s close proximity to The Mote monument.
One resident said: “Purely commercial interests are involved in the siting of this mast not only from the point of view of Vodafone but also presumably from the point of view of the owner of the land who will receive around £8,000 to £10,000 per annum for allowing Vodafone to have a mast on this site.”
Fears were also raised over the effect of a mast on the heavily populated residential area which includes a primary school.
However, the council were expected to approve the plans in accordance with national guidance over safety issues.
Ayrshire Post Jun 29 2005
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North Ayrshire:
Call from phone mast protesters Jun 9 2005
ANGRY parents fighting to stop a phone mast being erected next to a primary school are calling on all residents to write to North Ayrshire Council and
object to the plans.
The campaigning residents have formed a group, SAYNO2O2 and want to stop the 15 metre high 3G mast being put on ground along from Lawthorn Primary School.
They have already written to every parent of children at the school asking for support and now want Irvine Herald readers to sign up and write to the council’s planning team.
They have mounted a letter on a website for residents to print off:
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/sayno2o2.
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Ayrshire:
Councillor slams planning ban Jun 2 2005

MOBILE phone masts are being put up next to people’s homes because they’re banned from council owned land, say Tory councillors.
And Troon councillor Peter Convery revealed this week that he’s taken his campaign for the ban to be relaxed all the way to the Scottish Parliament.
He insists that while more appropriate open spaces lie empty, masts are being erected just metres away from homes.
Councillor Convery explained: “By banning the use of council land for the purposes of telecommunications equipment, the council’s policy has forced
mobile phone companies to target sites in close proximity to residential areas.
“In many instances the companies themselves would have preferred to locate their equipment on, for example, golf courses and other open spaces
removed from residential properties.”
He added: “Two recent examples are the planning applications for 02 masts in Troon at Lochend Road and Kilmarnock Road, which provoked what in
my view was a quite understandable level of concern and objection amongst local residents.
“Had the council’s moratorium policy not been in place, I believe that both of these facilities would have been sited in much more appropriate locations,
nowhere near residential areas.
“While I clearly would not want to see a rash of mobile phone masts springing up across local parklands and golf courses, it equally does not seem sensible
to close such locations off completely as an option, particularly when the alternative is for masts to end up being sited just meters from the homes of local residents.”
A motion by Councillor Convery and his Conservative group colleague, Councillor Alistair Kerr, calling on the moratorium to be reviewed was rejected at a
recent meeting of South Ayrshire Council.
Councillor Convery went on: “ I decided to take the matter to the Scottish Parliament’s petitions committee, since I believe the parliament has a crucial role
to play in helping ensure that there is clear guidance on how such moratoriums should be applied, to balance the need to roll out new telecommunications systems with the expressed concerns of local people.
“While the two recent cases in Troon have raised the profile of this issue locally, this is a problem that affects the whole of Scotland.
I hope that by drawing it to the attention on the Scottish Parliament’s petitions committee, a sensible solution can be arrived at.”
The issue will be debated by the petitions committee when it holds its special sitting at Ayr’s County Buildings on Monday, June 6.
Created: 6 Jun 2005 Ayrshire Post

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