[UK-CONTEST] Issue over a mast

[Don Beattie]

Thanks Jerry.

My only point really regarding your first mail was that I don't think "use" 
(i.e. receiving or transmitting) is really a planning matter.

I agree with your other points.

73

Don, G3BJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Scarr" <jerryscarr at googlemail.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Issue over a mast


> Don
>
> I was advocating a G5RV or top band tune able long wire strung from house 
> to
> tree/s. ( a natural existing fixing point)
>
>  A tower fixed into the ground with or without an aerial array needs
> planning consent, as it is a permanently in situ.
> An application can be turned down on aesthetic grounds under planning law.
>
> However I would have pointed out that one tower with an aerial array is
> infinitely less obtrusive than a wind turbine and that a tower does not 
> have
> turning blades at variable speeds that do frighten horses and kill birds
>
> The birds flying into wire, frighten horses addition power required are 
> all
> hot air ramblings from a " Hot Air"  person and are quite frankly 
> ridiculous
> comments and nothing by any stretch of imagination to do with the said
> application, nor are they pertinet or justifiable reasons, and the 
> Chairman
> of the Planning committee should have said so.
>
> If Nick is going to pursue the application he is welcome to contact me 
> QTHR.
>
> Personally I would like to see these stupid comments if they were printed 
> in
> a local newspaper and definitely linked to the perpetrator in order that I
> could reply...
>
> 73's (  Now off the soapbox)  and GD DX
>
> Jerry (G6LBL)
> North Yorks.
>
>
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