PRESS RELEASE 04/02/2009
3G plan mobile mast at Bayside Square
Following contacts from local residents, Malahide Howth local election candidate with the Socialist Party Brian Greene has learned that 3G Threefold has applied for an exemption from planning to erect mobile phone antenna on a building at Bayside Square Sutton.
“The fact that mobile phone companies continue to site masts beside residents is baffling. Attempts to engage communities in the process of mast locations has been met with a wall of silence from mobile phone companies and their agents. What residents and mobile phone users need is the sensible siting of masts where the community has input. The exemption route that mobile phone companies use excludes the community from the last line of defense by refusing an opportunity to inspect that plans adhere to the rigors of the planning laws.” according to Mr. Greene
Back in 2005 Mr.Greene led a successful campaign to remove mobile phone masts from beside the boys primary school in Baldoyle. “Today like in 2005 the ‘Precautionary Approach’ is what scientists and communities call for when considerations are being made about the location choice of mobile phone antenna.”
Communities are denied the planning process when these exemptions are applied. Exemptions were introduce by the Fianna Fail Government in 2001. There are very few criteria that do not allow for the exemption to succeed allowing companies to attach disguised antenna to an array of commercial & public buildings. However communities unhappy with the proximity of a mast can successfully protest and remove antenna as the 2005 Baldoyle case proved. “Residents need to be vigilant, masts are springing up at closer and closer centres as technology ‘improves’. Through people power the balance can shift and communities can halt the erections of unwanted masts in their areas.”
There is also word that Meteor are seeking an exemption to build a station at Portmarnock Sports and Leisure Centre. Baldoyle Against Radiation has worked with other campaign groups throughout Ireland following the landmark 2005 An Bord Pleanála decision. If you require more details on the Baldoyle campaign contact BAR@Dublin13.com
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What a stupid tosser you are complaining about harmless antennae in Bayside Square. A lot of elderly folk now live in the Bayside area and need good mobile phone coverage to stay in touch with familly and friends and contact the emergency services when necessary. Land lines are much too expensive and people are getting rid of them in favour of their mobiles.You are on a loser if you expect to get any votes out of this campaign. I will be preparing flyers which will go into every home in Bayside outlining the folly of what you are at. These very small antennae do nobody any harm but do a lot of good for the community. Give it up now if you want to have any hope of getting on to the Fingal Council.
Danny
@Danny O’Connor: nice start to your comment – starting with an insult.
Stick to the facts. & keep up to date. This 3G antenna you comment on has been ruled OUT by Fingal Planning, it must not be cited near child care facility, that is the law.
there is a vodafone antenna outputting 2067+ micro watts per meter squared off the roof of the squash & leisure centre, any attention you can bring to this is most welcome.
meanwhile I am talking about the closure of public call boxes on the peninsula (http://url.ie/1b2r) and their future use as infill wifi / 4G. I’m a technofile not a technophobe. I want the best telco we can have in this area, but we get to plan it, not have it illegally rammed down our necks as it is currently being served.
You seem to have a notion that I am doing this to get elected! ROFL. Have a look at the time lines (Oct 2004-Sept 2005) of my involvement in the successful removal of multiple antennas at Baldoyle United Football Club after the June 2004 election 5 years ago. It is NOT for votes or seats in Swords or Kildare Street that the Socialist Party are here for. Are you mistaking us for some establishment party?