https://jamescousins.com/2010/02/new-phone-mast-in-stormont-road/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://jamescousins.com/2010/02/new-phone-mast-in-stormont-road/#comment-1321 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=3171#comment-1321 As someone who lives in sight of the proposed location I’m inclined to give it a cautious welcome. The reception here is abominable, more worthy of the Highlands & Islands than Zone 2! These things are never popular, and – maybe because they’re almost by definition put up on tallish institutional buildings where they visually blend in among all the other paraphernalia on the rooftop – the objections are usually centred on perceived health fears (which as you note is not in scope for the planning process) – and the feared knock-on effect on house prices, etc. That said, a single antenna of the sort in the diagram is quite a low-power affair; as far as I am aware these are designed to fill in fairly local gaps in coverage. Comparing this with the dozen-or-so masts on the roof of Sainsbury’s at Latchmere Road, or the veritable forest of them on the roof of the Lavender Hill post office (where there must be at least five for each network), I’d imagine this’ll be relatively uncontroversial.

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