As reported on the BBC News, I recently turned down an offer from Vodafone of £4,500 to erect a mobile-phone mast on my service station forecourt. To be honest, I could not see the sense in erecting one in the centre of the village of Hordle, nor immediately adjacent to a site selling highly inflammable liquids.
You can imagine my dismay on discovering that Vodafone had subsequently sought permission to postion a mast on the pavement immediately adjacent to my site.
I attended the hearing with regard to this application and having put my reasons for the non installation of the mast, permission was refused. Naturally I thought that was the end of it.
However, an official who does not live in the village of Hordle has approved the construction overturning the decision of the New Forest District Council and the parish council. This is completely at odds with all the original arguments for the refusal of this application.
I have now endeavoured to demonstrate the appearance of the construction planned and the danger it creates for both motorists and pedestrians at a very busy junction.
Read more about this as reported by the BBC News
Watch a piece of BBC newsreel clearly demonstrating the dangers
What is now needed is a concerted effort by the community at large to block this. We are not alone as many people in other areas are up in arms and protesting although often too late as once the masts are erected there is little chance of them being removed.
Several links to these reports can can be found on the BBC News website.
Please help us to spread the word, if you are internet literate and use social networking sites I would really appreciate you bookmarking and ‘twittering’ we need all the help we can muster if we are to beat this.
Sean Denman.
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I’m afraid big business has a lot of clout and one has to wonder what goes on in the corridors of power. If the local councils turn it down and the community doesn’t want it why are these large conglomerates able to bulldoze their way through. The whole thing ’stinks’ and I hope the support for this grows not only locally, but nationally and who knows even globally considering we are talking about a ‘David and Goliath’ battle.
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