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Go-ahead to Chorus for new mast to provide broadband in Bantry area

  • 12-05-2005 11:42pm
    #1
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭


    This was in the Cork edition of the Irish Examiner last Tuesday (10/5/2005):

    Mast gets green light
    by Sean O’Riordan

    AN Bord Pleanala has decided to uphold planning permission for a controversial 60 metre-high mast in Bantry, following objections from locals who cited health fears and the fact that four cancer cases had already been diagnosed in the immediate area.
    A number of people objected to the planning appeals board after Cork County Council gave Chorus permission to build the mast and four radio equipment containers at Scartbaun, a site which already hosts a number of smaller telecommunications masts.
    The site, 1.5km south of the town and overlooking Bantry Bay, was earmarked by Chorus to provide high speed wireless broadband links to the main site at Nowen Hill, near Dunmanway. The company said the existing masts at Scartbaun were not high enough to provide line-of-sight to Nowen Hill.
    Council planners expressed concern over the proliferation of masts in what is regarded as a highly scenic area, but subsequently granted it last November, with 12 conditions. Locals objected saying there were possible health implications and pointed out that there were four confirmed cases of cancer, one within 500 metres of the site.
    An Bord Pleariâla inspector Laurie Mulrine said that she personally found the existing masts and equipment "gave an intimidating presence while she was taking in the scenic landscape across Bantry Bay".
    In her report, she admitted the Chorus proposal was "a difficult application to consider", but found the overriding factor to be the stated need in the County Development Plan to support the provision of broadband in west Cork and the tourist industry.
    Ms Mulrine upheld the council’s decision, but recommended that planning be granted for a temporary period of five years.


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  • #2
    Marcopolo85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭Marcopolo85


    Antenna wrote:
    This was in the Cork edition of the Irish Examiner last Tuesday (10/5/2005):

    Mast gets green light
    by Sean O’Riordan

    Locals objected saying there were possible health implications and pointed out that there were four confirmed cases of cancer, one within 500 metres of the site.
    QUOTE]

    :mad: Here we go again. Are we ever going to get over this phobia in this country? The same 'local people' usually use mobile phones, smoke, drink, etc. Are they going to abstain from these also?


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