Turn Moss will now have a 82ft high mobile phone mast after being approved by Trafford Council

Turn Moss playing fields in Stretford will be changed forever soon after Trafford Planning decided to approve an 82ft mobile phone mast almost in the middle of it.

The mast will have several 5G antennas and other equipment to enhance coverage in an area that already had good coverage on the VMO2 network according to coverage maps, having this huge mast with nothing to screen it will look like a shuttle launch pad that will be seen for miles around.

Of the 20 residents who objected, all mentioned concerns for health and siting and appearance, all valid opinions and all ignored by Trafford Council Planning Committee.

Every mobile phone mast application comes with concerns for health from residents and largely rubbished by the council due to a thing called a ‘ICNIRP certficate’ which is clearly not from ICNIRP! The dubious German voluntary organisation has added a message on their own website that they do not issue certificates.

These certificates are a simple declaration of conformity that the network have read the guidelines and nothing else, so for any authority to claim or even insinuate that the technology is safe is delusional and dangerously so since people are not being told the truth about this technology.

Here are some words from the ICNIRP guidelines 2020 which people can see does not contain anything of any reassurance:

“From a health risk perspective, we are generally interested in how much EMF power is absorbed by biological tissues, as this is largely responsible for the heating effects described above. This is typically described as a function of a relevant dosimetric quantity. For example, below about
6 GHz, where EMFs penetrate deep into tissue (and thus require depth to be considered), it is useful to describe this in terms of “specific energy absorption rate” (SAR), which is the power absorbed per unit mass”

The guidelines are not an assurance of safety, its not telling you mobile frequencies are safe anywhere and it is reasonable for all residents in this application and others to be concerned about mobile phone mast frequencies.