Phone tower prompts concerns

Plans by Vodaphone to erect a 25-metre mobile phone communications tower in Patonga have prompted a call by one resident for others to express their concerns.

Gosford Council has received an application for the tower, which would be located adjacent to the Patonga Beach Hall and Rural Fire Brigade.

Resident Rhonda Woodhouse has called on any concerned residents to express their views to the council.

Ms Woodhouse said the council had previously rejected applications where towers were less then 500 metres from residences.

She said that elderly people with a carcinoma history had less resistance to radiation from the towers and continued exposure could be like having too many x-rays.

She believed that the tower would also result in a decline of property values in the area.

She said alternative sites had been suggested including the ridge between Patonga Beach and Little Patonga and the ridge between Wobby and Patonga Beaches.

The extra cost of installation could be defrayed by inviting SBS and Channel 3 to put their translators on it, she said.

Leaflet, March 6