MOBILE PHONE MASTS (No. 2)

Early day motion 767, tabled 14 October 2005 by Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 44 members.

That this House acknowledges the benefits that mobile telecommunications bring; recognises the high level of concern in many communities such as Hornsey and Wood Green regarding mobile phone masts; urges the Government to undertake an independent and wide-ranging study of epidemiology in relation to mobile phone masts; believes that the current planning control is inadequate, failing to consider safety and local and environmental concerns; and calls on the Government to bring mobile phone masts, regardless of size, under strict planning control and to bring in the precautionary principle, to give extra safeguards to schools, homes and medical facilities from the risk of excessive radiation.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 21, Labour 16, DUP 4, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.