• I WRITE to support the initiative organised by Jessica Learmond-Criqui through the crowdjustice website (5G Judicial Review 2020).

This is seeking £50,000 to fund the application for judicial review, and an additional £100,000 to fund all case costs should the application to allow a judicial review prove successful.

The application concentrates on issues over the safety aspects of reliance on the ICNIRP (International Commission on non ionising radiation protection) guidelines to set the limits of public exposure to RFR (radio frequency radiation).

If successful, the application for judicial review would examine all safety issues over 5G technology, in particular, but would also require for the government to ensure that the industry lays cabling for the purposes of upgrades in technology rather than relying on wireless technology generating RFR.

It would also require the government to examine all equipment and gadgets generating RFR and to take steps to ensure that such equipment does not cause harm to humans.

This judicial review is sorely needed because of the continued silence and stifling of debate by the political establishment.

If they are so confident as to the strength of their safety arguments, then why has the government removed health concerns from the national planning policy framework?

If you are so confident that you are right, then it surely follows that you would be happy to take part in a debate any time and any place.

Indeed, Camden Council, working hand in hand with the mobile phone giants, has taken things a step further, and would rather you didn’t know your block was a target as a site for mobile phone masts at all.

In April 2019, when they had Monmouth House in their sights, Camden conveniently “forgot” to mention the application to my own tenants’ and residents’ association. We had to find out about it from the nearby Inkerman Area Residents’ Association.

In your April 30 Letters Yolande Mallet De Chauny said of the masts that have been installed on the Southfleet Estate in Malden Road: “I do not recall ever receiving a letter of consultation or indeed any notification about them installing the masts”.

And in the case of Haddo House, only one notice was found in the local area and that was placed on railings in front of the block, behind some recycling bins.

It is far from just Camden Council tenants and residents that are affected by these issues. The people of Kelly Street have had mobile phone masts put up just yards from their homes.

And anyone who works in or lives above a commercial premises that has had mobile phone masts put on its roof would surely be interested in getting some credible answers as to their safety through a full judicial review.

So I urge all citizens to get behind Jessica’s attempt to secure this review. Spread the word by email, on Facebook and on Twitter in order to secure the funding required.

We are all in this together.

LOUIS LOIZOU
NW5