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The Tower Action Group is a member of the New Brighton Community Partnership. If you would like to know more about New Brighton then visit New Brighton Online.

This is a list of sites with information on mobile phone masts:

  • Mast Sanity is a national organisation fighting the insensitve siting of mobile phone and Tetra masts.
  • Mast Action UK is a voluntary national organisation, set up to help communities and individuals with mast siting problems.
  • Powerwatch details some of the possible health problems associated with power lines and mobile phone masts.
  • The Stewart Report (Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones)
  • Wave-Guide is site with more technical information about EMF/RFR bioeffects and public policy.
  • Find a mast from the government Mobile Phone Base Station Database using the map or your postcode.
  • Council planning policy is based on "Planning Policy Guidance Note 8: Telecommunications" (PPG8) which can be found at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister planning web site.
Other campaign groups:
  • Dunton No-masts Campaign are trying to protect their unspoiled rural landscape in Bedfordshire from mobile phone masts.
  • Liberal Democrat - Mobile Phone masts (coordinated through Kent Liberal Democrats) on line petition We the undersigned call on the Government to implement the recommendation of Sir William Stewart's Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones and require all new mobile phone masts and modifications to existing masts to require full planning consent
  • A large page on Cellular Phones, Mobile and Base Station Antenna Radiation and Human can be found here.
Should you feel strongly about these mobile phones you may wish to contact:
  • Wirral Planning Applications database. The postcode of the Water Tower is CH45 9JA.
  • Email the Planning department directly, but you must include your full home address in order to be considered. Alternatively you can write to
         Planning and Economic Development Dept.
         North Annexe,
         Town Hall,
         Brighton Street,
         Wallasey, CH44 8ED
    but again you must include your full home address.
  • Angela Eagle MP for Wallasey or email
  • You can also use FaxYourMP to send a FAX to your MP. This web site has a good FAQ about lobbying your MP.
  • Legislation Watch allows you to follow the progress of Parliamentary Bills. This is what happened to Frank Fields bill to give local authorities the power to refuse planning permission for telecoms masts.
Wirral planning meetings and decisions can be found on the local democracy page of Wirral council.

Mobile Phone Companies

Author: Tower Action Group <tag at emit.demon.co.uk>
Modified: 2005-10-28 08:43:59