ONCE again we have 'Nimbys' complaining about mobile-phone masts.
One resident complains about the health risks to the Witton School pupils. Has she not considered that there is a far greater (medically substantiated) risk to children, (and residents for that matter) with the car exhaust fumes from the drivers who insist on driving their children to the school entrance, coupled with the risk to life and limb of the children with the excessive use of traffic on schooldays?
If these people were really concerned for the health of all, they should look outside their front doors and see the dangers on the Worcester Road as schoolchildren and adults try to cross the road between the Sacred Heart Church and the Total garage - before and after school.
These residents should also wander along Old Coach Road, near Stalls Farm Road, at 8.30am and 3pm and see similar examples.
Rose Dyson asks that no masts should be sited until proven safe. Whilst there are no reports which say that masts do not cause cancer, there are no official reports either that state that masts do cause cancer.
In fact there is less dangerous output from a mast than there is from having a mobile phone against your ear, or in your chest pocket. Electricity pylons cause more health risks.
Lets get priorities in order - obvious dangers and pre-conceived fears.
Many of these people who complain about phone masts would be more sympathetic if they were presented with the fact that a life of someone in their family was saved because someone had the chance to use a mobile phone to make an emergency call.
I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate to support masts then. Many older people purchase a mobile phone "to keep in the car in case of emergency" - as I am often told by customers.
MB
Droitwich Spa
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