Another phone mast proposal defeated
I’ve just had a conversation with one of the leading anti-phone mast campaigners in the area who led the campaign against the proposed mast on the Crystal Palace Tavern. The owners of the pub, Punch Taverns, have decided not to give permission for a phone mast on their building after all.
This follows months of pressure from from local campaigners. I wrote to Punch Taverns about this in April and received short shrift but we carried out a survey of opinion on the issue and encouraged local people to write too, so did local campaigners through SE22 magazine and further petitioning and it seems that the result is a victory for people power.
Well done to Lisa and everyone else involved.
Cllr Richard Thomas » Another exclusive…. said,
August 23, 2006 @ 8:15 pm
[...] My friends in the South London Press have been trawling this blog for stories again.The latest is the news of Punch Taverns’ decision , following sustained local pressure, not to put a mobile phone mast on the Crystal Palace Tavern. You read it here first…..three weeks ago! [...]
Dunstan’s Road Phone Mast Threat « Cllr Richard Thomas said,
September 12, 2006 @ 12:40 pm
[...] Communities have often found it very difficult to defeat proposals for phone masts. The Inspectorate often over-rules local councils. As previously reported, the proposal for the mast on the Crystal Palace Tavern was not defeated though the planning system but by putting pressure on the owners of the pub. [...]