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Switzerland: A 25-Meter Antenna is Imposed on Gland

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The cantonal courts’ decision in favor of Swisscom is a mockery of justice.   It overrides the "irrefutable" communal regulation which gives the municipality the right to decide on the number and placement of antennas. The 25-meter (82 feet) mobile phone tower will be erected in part to feed the insatiable demands of travelers on the Lausanne-Geneva train line.

The 25-Meter Antenna Mocks the Regulation
24heures, 11 July 2014
(translated from French by the Editor of this blog)

Green light from the cantonal courts for Swisscom to install a new tower in Gland, which the municipality contested in conformity with the regulation
The affair goes beyond the objection and fear normally shown when an operator wants to erect a new mobile phone antenna.

This time, it isn’t the persons living nearby, but the municipal authority, which the cantonal courts are challenging. The 240 persons who did not want the 25-meter tower planned by Swisscom in Gland had in fact withdrawn their opposition when the municipality decided to refuse permission for construction, a decision that the cantonal courts have just canceled following an appeal from the operator.
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