SIR - In your news item (Worcester News, March 17) about another phone mast application, there is no mention of which type of antenna is planned, but it is probably safe to assume that it is a third generation transmitter/ antenna.

Regardless of which kind, here we are again - councillors and planning officers being concerned about visual impact and the colour of the appliance but no mention is made of radiation from these antennae and the impact on human health and wellbeing.

The antennae in question are, and will be, extremely close to people's homes and the low level will mean that they radiate straight into the adjacent houses at full blast.

The house just across the road and the house right next to the treatment works will be fully exposed to potentially dangerous radiation.

The evidence of harm to humans from these antennae are abundant, and councillors and planning officers cannot keep pretending that they do not know of the dangers they pose.

News items and reports have been numerous on the subject, especially since 2003 with the emergence of 3G.

Families have been forced to abandon their homes when masts have been put up and operated on neighbouring ground, and still the councillors and planners are just discussing visual impact and colour schemes.

For the sake of all of us, wake up to reality.

We are being polluted out of our environment by radiation from telecommunication equipment, yet councils are keen to let their own buildings house them because of the rental income paid by the telecommunications providers.

The price is just too high.

Between 2 and 5 per cent of any Western population is now sensitive to radiation and magnetic fields and this is accelerating fast, most likely thanks to the uncontrolled roll-out of a dense telecommunications network utilising airborne radiation.

Eirikur M Petursson, Upper Colwall, Malvern