Mobile masts must be put back under planning process at the very least.

national | environment | other press Thursday November 09, 2006 17:21 by anon

Give people a process, Why piss people off

Gardaí in Waterford city are investigating a fire at a mobile phone mast at a well-known GAA ground.
The fire, which is being treated as arson, destroyed the Meteor Mast at Ballygunner.
It is the second time in five months that the mast has been destroyed by arsonists.
The siting of the mast at the pitch is currently the subject of an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1107/waterford.html

Telecommuncation masts have been sawed, pulled down blocked and set on fire. Large groups residents have blocked workers from getting on sites to install masts.For the last nine months residents have prevented Vilicom - telecommunications consultants for the Office of Public Works - from erecting the mast at Shankill.

Another Rossport
http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_co...id=49
More apt a a title then you think with regard to exemptions of planning, styming projects from the start.

Find out about a mobile mast months after it has put up pisses people off, so it not just about whether the emissoins go beyond a useful level it about allowing people to be part of process, government exemption of masts from planning persmission has exerbated the concern rather then dismissing it.

�Signed and sealed� is how chairman Pat O�Sullivan has described the club�s deal with Meteor which was continuing to cause ripples in the locality (yesterday) as worried parents brought their planning objections to the City Council.

The mobile phone mast has been operating on the GAA grounds for several months but a planning application - for retention was only submitted by the club at the end of January.
http://archives.tcm.ie/waterfordnews/2006/03/02/story21...4.asp

Example of misuse of exemption. Put mast back under plannign control is that too much to ask?
http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2005/baldoyle-mast-removal/

This is not acceptable and I have tabled a question in the Dail to the Minister for the Environment asking him whether he intends to revise Class 31 of the 2001 Planning and Development Regulations to allow for public consultation through a formal planning process if additional telecommunications antennae are proposed to be placed on a mast."
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1560027/

Sites should be shared by all companies
http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2004/no-more-new-phone-m...eded/

Dalkey blockade
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77191?condense_comments...=true

Shankill Gardai join protest
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1573850/

Better Environment and Safety Telecommunications etc
City Councillor Jim D’Arcy has urged the people of the locality to attend the meeting, noting the serious concerns within the community about the locating of the mast so close to a school, despite the fact that studies have indicated young children are susceptible to emissions. ``The GAA Club didn’t give the community a choice in the matter, the mast just appeared. It is important that people find out the full story,’’ he noted.
http://www.munster-express.ie/060505/news1.html