RESIDENTS fighting an application to install three TETRA masts in Cuddington are elated after the landowner agreed to refuse permission for it to be installed.

The landowner originally wanted to wait for a decision from the borough council on whether the terrestrial trunked radio masts could be put up on Cuddington Water Tower.

Now, after intense pressure by residents from Delamere Park, Cuddington, Sandiway and Oakmere, he has decided to back down.

But protesters say the fight goes on and they held a meeting last Thursday in Cuddington Primary School hall to give an update and information to residents in Cuddington and Sandiway.

Organiser Steve Parsons said: "We have moved a big step forward and have been putting quite a bit of pressure on the landowner.

"We told him we are his neighbours living next to him and did he want to live with a mast on his land."

TETRA is the pulsed microwave technology used to create a communications system, which the emergency services intend to use.

Residents fear that radiation from the mast us a serious risk to the health of local people and do not want the mast in the area.

The application was submitted by Airwave MM02, which has been invited to a public meeting in the second week of July, along with planning chief Richard Ellison, to put their version forward.

Steve added: "We believe they will be back. We were becoming a community living in fear."

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