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Blondin Park's Monster Mast

Reading the article in today's newsletter about the planned 'monster mast' in Blondin Park a question occurred to me. It is stated that the high frequency of 5G is effectively more prone to being blocked by buildings and trees therefore more and higher masts need to be built.Does anyone know if we are at the early stages of the building out of this infrastructure or has it been put in place already without people noticing?

Gordon Southwell ● 1824d7 Comments

Capacity man.. capacityLimited loading's on roofs (or rooves if your old skool) to the structure and wind loads etcplus power into the building etc etcI'm sure GSK would welcome an annual payment or the Mille buildingGreat news this aint happening in the park.Nice

Colin Goodman ● 1803d

Does anybody know why Boundary House, the current site of a number of masts, has become "unavailable"?Is Boundary House about to be demolished for example?

Tony Colliver ● 1804d

Pleased to read on the front page this mast has been rejected. Not that I believe that they should be stopped in all cases but building them on Public Open Space in a park should always be a very last resort.Of course there will be a map of where masts are planned but this won't be released to the public. The telecommunications companies are clearly hoping the inadequacies of the planning system will mean that most will already have permission before people are aware that they are happening. Not every area will have councillors on the ball and independent enought to alert people to what is going on or a functioning local media to report on it.

Andy Jones ● 1804d

I have not seen a map of proposed 5G masts. Far too centralised. Applications are one by one and I cannot think why there is not a map with 5G mast proposals say in red and existing masts in green. As a footnote there is now a game changer THE SAMSUNG QUANTUM PHONE. we are now in an extremley urgent situation our future depends partly on these masts.

Nicholas Beard ● 1806d

Another one is planned for outside Chiswick Health Centre. It would be interesting to see their map with all the thousands of new proposed masts marked on. Local authorities must have some indication. Otherwise we'll be left reacting to each proposal one at a time.

Peter Evans ● 1808d

London and Edinburgh have 5G and a few other towns. We are behind as usual.

Nicholas Beard ● 1809d

Can't really answer your question other than to say I don't recall seeing a huge number of new masts in the area recently. Perhaps most of them are being placed on the top of buildings.

Andy Jones ● 1823d