Bürgerwelle News: 03 November 2012

The Guardian

A plan to relax planning constraints on phone masts and overhead cables being erected across Britain s most protected countryside has been described by campaigners as the biggest attack on national parks and areas of outstanding beauty in more than 50...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/03/4g-national-parks-threat

[ Sarah Wright of Mast Sanity, a campaign group, added that she was also concerned about the health implications for wildlife in the parks and beauty spots.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/03/4g-national-parks-threat

Informant: Martin Weatherall ]

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Beauty spots at risk in 4G phone mast 'free-for-all' under controversial proposals to relax planning restrictions

Daily Mail

But plans to relax planning restrictions on mobile phone masts and overhead cables could create a 'free-for-all' and leave Britain s most beautiful areas 'disfigured', campaigners warned yesterday. Under controversial proposals contained in a Bill to...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227921/Beauty-spots-risk-4G-phone-mast-free-controversial-proposals-relax-planning-restrictions.html#ixzz2BJulIv7N

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Parks Beyond Borders: Phone ''Masts'' May Be Coming to Lake District, Thermal Pools Kaput in Canada s Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

National Parks Traveler

In England, the English National Park Authorities Association, ''representing the government-funded bodies stewarding the parks,'' has expressed its alarm at a plan to ''relax planning constraints on phone masts (cell towers) and overhead cables being...

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2012/11/parks-beyond-borders-phone-masts-may-be-coming-lake-district-thermal-pools-kaput-canadas-gwaii-haana10785

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LGA fears mobile phone mast 'free-for-all'

Public Finance

'We are concerned that this will open the door to a mobile phone mast free-for-all where giant masts could start cropping up in beauty spots, historic locations and next to schools. People would be left powerless to object and councils would be left...

http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2012/11/lga-fears-mobile-phone-mast-free-for-all/

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New growth bill 'will lead to phone mast free-for-all'

Telegraph.co.uk Comments.

As MPs prepare to debate the bill in the House of Commons, local authorities said the plans will lead to a ''mobile phone mast free-for-all'' across the Britain. Ministers will today insist the plans under the Growth and Infrastructure Bill are...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands-off-our-land/9655900/New-growth-bill-will-lead-to-phone-mast-free-for-all.html

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LGA: planning changes could create phone mast 'free-for-all'

LocalGov

Councils could be left powerless to stop the installation of mobile phone masts under government proposals, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. A clause in the Growth and Infrastructure Bill that extends planning deregulations proposed...

http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=107618

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Starmail - 3. Nov, 22:30