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by Alice Foster, Reporter, London News,
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8 January 2015
The approval of a 12.5m phone mast near a school and scout hut has provoked outrage among parents worried radiation could affect their children’s health.
Unhappy residents are considering picketing council offices over the decision and boycotting a park if the "eyesore" goes up as planned in Salisbury Road, Worcester Park.
On Monday Epsom Council gave the green light for the controversial phone mast by Auriol Park in a residential area near a primary school.
Despite receiving petitions and hundreds of complaints, the planning department decided in private that "prior approval" was not needed and there was no legal reason to refuse the plan.
The approval of a 12.5m phone mast near a school and scout hut has provoked outrage among parents worried radiation could affect their children’s health.
Unhappy residents are considering picketing council offices over the decision and boycotting a park if the "eyesore" goes up as planned in Salisbury Road, Worcester Park.
On Monday Epsom Council gave the green light for the controversial phone mast by Auriol Park in a residential area near a primary school.
Despite receiving petitions and hundreds of complaints, the planning department decided in private that "prior approval" was not needed and there was no legal reason to refuse the plan.